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In <CMrn33.E70@csn.org> bhall@teal.csn.org (Brian Hall) writes:

>I have two questions about DOS Windows, under DOS 6.20 & Windows 3.1.

>1. How does one set up windows to allow the use of a mouse in a DOS window
>   that is not full-screen?  I am loading a mouse driver in my autoexec.bat
>   (MS-Mouse 9.01), but i cannot get mouse input in a dos window unless
>   it is full screen.  This use to work on my old system.

You need to take care of 4 things to get this to work.

(1) You have to be using a windows screen grabber that supports this
    feature.  If you are using windows v3.1, then I think you are set.
    If you are still using v3.0, you will have to make sure you have an
    updated screen grabber.
(2) You have to have a video driver that suports this feature.  Just for
    testing purposes, you could use the default VGA driver that comes
    bundled with windows (till you know you have the other three things
    right) and then switch to the driver that came with your card.  If
    it stopped working at that point you would have to contact your
    distributor to get updated drivers for your video card.  These days
    though, most video drivers support this unless you have really old
    ones.
(3) You have to have a mouse TSR loaded in DOS *before* windows starts
    and this mouse driver has to support this feature.  If you bought
    your mouse in the past year you probably have no problem (not sure
    how far back you can go).  Otherwise you might want to get an
    updated mouse driver.
(4) This is the most likely problem you have here and the easiest to
    fix.  Edit your system.ini file and check the [NonWindowsApp]
    section.  Make sure you have a line that reads:

	MouseInDosBox=1

    If you don't have this, add it, and then reboot windows.

>2. Is there any way to permit choice of fonts for dos windows?  This also

Don't know on this one...

    Michael