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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>, cutemouse AT yahoogroups DOT com,
   "'Arkady V.Belousov'"
	 <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: CuteMouse 1.9.1 alpha 1 and CuteMouse 2.0 alpha 4
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:52:19 +1000
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Well, I have just tried these two Cute Mouse drivers on a
Toshiba 440CDT laptop, which runs M$-DOS 7.10 (W95B),
with the following results :

Initially, I tried 2.0a4 - sometimes this would work, however,
often it would just hang (ie. never execute the remainder of
autoexec.bat). I then tried the parameters "/p /b /w", which
seemed (?) to help a bit, but did not solve the problem.   :-(

I have now installed 1.91a1 (using the parameters "/p /b")
and so far, this has worked OK.    :-)

In case it's relevant, before config.sys and autoexec.bat are
processed, there is a brief message "Panning Support Driver
V1.0 ... (C) Toshiba ...". I have no idea what this is, however
it might have something to do with the console operation and
hence be relevant to CTmouse(?) The mouse in this case is
merely the buttons on & below the keyboard, which apparently
emulate a PS/2 mouse.

BTW, I wasn't sure whether to include this response in the
'opendos' list, but perhaps others here may be interested and
anyway, I am responding to a posting on 'opendos'.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Arkady V.Belousov [SMTP:ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su]
> Sent:	Saturday, June 28, 2003 8:56 AM
> To:	cutemouse AT yahoogroups DOT com; fd-dev AT topica DOT com; opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	ANNOUNCE: CuteMouse 1.9.1 alpha 1 and CuteMouse 2.0 alpha 4
> 
> Hi!
> 
> http://cutemouse.sf.net/
> http://cutemouse.sf.net/program/ctm20a4.zip
> http://cutemouse.sf.net/program/ctm191a1.zip
> 
> ______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
> History
> -------
> 
> 2.0     by Nagy Daniel <nagyd AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
> 
> - Hardware PS/2 handling reintroduced (tests and comments by Hubert Sack
>   <Hsack2002 AT aol DOT com> and Bernd Krueger-Knauber <bkk AT infratec-plus DOT de>).
> - Added new wheel API.
> - Added wheel tester utility.
> 
>         by Jason Burgon <jason AT jayman DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> - Implemented INT 33/0028; the DX argument is ignored.
> - Reimplemented functions INT 33/001A and 001B to mimic MS Mouse behavior.
> - Changed semantics of the /R command line option: its arguments
> multiplied
>   by 10 and passed to 001A function.
> 
>         by Arkady V.Belousov <ark AT mos DOT ru>
> 
> - Cleaned and optimized source code and fixed many bugs.
> 
> 
> 1.9.1   by Arkady V.Belousov <ark AT mos DOT ru>
> 
>         by Maurizio Spagni <flurmy AT freemail DOT it>
> 
> - Fixed bug in INT 33/0017; under Turbo Pascal IDE this bug caused crash
>   in some cases.
> 
>         by Nagy Daniel <nagyd AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
> 
> - INT 33/0005 and 0006 functions now return zero values in case of wrong
>   button number in BX; this makes game Patrician happy.
> _____________________________________________________________________
>               O/~\                                 /~\O
> 
>      Version 2.0 is a new CuteMouse branch - there introduced new Wheel
> API
> for wheel support and hardware PS/2 handler.
> 
>      Version 2.0 is full functional program, but it is in alpha stage and
> shouldn't replace version 1.9 yet - on some machines hardware PS/2 handler
> may work incorrectly. Also, to get full development package, version 2.0
> should be written over the latest final or beta version (currently 1.9
> final). To use CuteMouse as plain mouse dirver only CTMOUSE.EXE is
> necessary, though.
> 
>      Note: to enable wheel support in programs they should explicitly
> support new Wheel API. Currently there is not much real programs, which
> support Wheel API (some of them mentioned on CuteMouse homepage), but all
> in your hands. :)
>