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From: "Marc D. Williams" <wilmarc AT gte DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:30:07 PST8PDT
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Subject:       Re: DR-Dos updates
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On 31 Aug 98, Matthias Paul wrote,

> DRMOUSE currently has some problems to detect a few mice 
> (apparently some Logitech or Genius serial mice), however my 
> Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse is successfully detected by the 
> driver and works OK.
> 

I use a Mouse Systems trackball. Switchable underneath to MS 2-button
or MSC 3-button.
DRMOUSE still doesn't do anything other than the No Mouse Detected
error and I thought I'd at least be able to do
  drmouse /?
  drmouse /h
  
or something to bring up switches but all it does is tell me I have no
mouse. Had to go into the executable to find the switches to try
which didn't matter anyway.  

> The LFN support is provided by the installable LONGNAME driver, 
>  
> However, to work with long filenames the command processor also needs 
> to use the new LFN API functions instead of the traditional function 
> set. DR-DOS COMMAND.COM does that since DR-OpenDOS 7.02+, so does the 
> DR-DOS 7.03 BETA COMMAND.COM, and so does for example 4DOS 6.00+.

I used the LONGNAME driver for some testing and remember that it wasn't
all that great. DR-DOS's handling of longnames is not too different
than 4DOS's descriptions as far as displaying goes (i.e. longnames only 
show up with a full dir but not with dir /w).
And 4DOS doesn't yet recognize the DR-DOS longnames. Maybe it will
someday.

I don't run Win95 on my machine anyway.

Marc