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My problem is that I am using a dos CAD program and can't get the mouse to work in the Windows '98 enviroment - It works fine in DOS (autoexec.bat installs 'mouse' on every startup) when the 'restart in DOS' shutdown option is used. It's mainly an inconvenience issue, in that I often switch from this program to a widows program many time a day, and waiting for my computer to re-boot every time is both time-consuming and irritating! Can anybody help?

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Hi,

this should be easy: include the DOS mouse-driver in your 'normal' autoexec.bat. To be shure it is the right one: Hit START, click on RUN, enter SYSEDIT and edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT appearing there. I have my mousedriver installed there, and everything works fine in all DOS-programs. Or - wait - I think my Mouse-driver is in CONFIG.SYS - but that shouldnt matter. If it does matter, usually it is enough to rename MOUSE.COM into MOUSE.SYS and include it into CONFIG.SYS instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT. This does however not hold true for all drivers, but for the more modern ones (if modern is a appropriate word in connection with DOS :-) ).

Hauke


On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 6:52 am, Peter wrote:
>I have a question about My
>extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:

>
>My problem is that I am using a dos CAD program and can't get the mouse to work in
>the Windows '98 enviroment - It works fine in DOS (autoexec.bat installs 'mouse'
>on every startup) when the 'restart in DOS' shutdown option is used. It's mainly
>an inconvenience issue, in that I often switch from this program to a widows program
>many time a day, and waiting for my computer to re-boot every time is both time-consuming
>and irritating! Can anybody help?
>
>

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I think you were right the first time - use autoexec.bat. The mouse driver could be mouse.exe.

Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
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when you restart in msdos mode it runs the dosstart.bat or some thing to that effect (in the windows dir)edit that file and put your mouse driver in there or in the pif settings either way it will run

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you may want to ensure that your dos mousedriver is loaded in memory, this can be done by shelling to a Dos prompt from within windows and typeing: mem /c and look for the mousedriver there. You should also have mouse activity if you go to full screen in your Dos shell and type: edit Hope this helps Gary


On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 11:49 am, Hauke wrote:
>Hi,

>this should be easy: include the DOS mouse-driver in your 'normal' autoexec.bat.
>To be shure it is the right one: Hit START, click on RUN, enter SYSEDIT and edit
>the AUTOEXEC.BAT appearing there. I have my mousedriver installed there, and everything
>works fine in all DOS-programs. Or - wait - I think my Mouse-driver is in CONFIG.SYS
>- but that shouldnt matter. If it does matter, usually it is enough to rename MOUSE.COM
>into MOUSE.SYS and include it into CONFIG.SYS instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT. This does
>however not hold true for all drivers, but for the more modern ones (if modern is
>a appropriate word in connection with DOS :-) ).
>

>Hauke
>
>


>On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 6:52 am, Peter wrote:
>I have a question about My
>extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:

>
>My problem is that I am using a dos CAD program and can't get the mouse to work
>in
>the Windows '98 enviroment - It works fine in DOS (autoexec.bat installs 'mouse'
>on every startup) when the 'restart in DOS' shutdown option is used. It's mainly
>an inconvenience issue, in that I often switch from this program to a widows program
>many time a day, and waiting for my computer to re-boot every time is both time-consuming
>and irritating! Can anybody help?
>
>

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