🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm relatively new to programming ms-dos, at least at a system level,
and I am desperately in need of getting mouse support into a very
important (to me, if no one else) program. Rather than learning the
in's and out's of programming mouse drivers, etc., I looked around
for some kind of demonstration mouse package. The one I found that
worked best for me (my main requirement being that it works with
BC++) is MouCeLIB, which is a C conversion of a Turbo Pascal program.

My problem now is that, when I insert the interrupt handler that
came with it, the machine crashes. I could hack together a non-
interrupt version that works, but I'd really prefer an interrupt
routine (plus I don't know if I have enough time, anyway - I need
a runnable version of this by the 22nd). I only made one modification
to the library - it wouldn't compile with an underscore in front of
a reference to "data" in the assembly of the handler. As near as I
can tell, the "data" that it now refers to is the correct one, but
I also don't know 80x86 assembly (and don't plan to learn).

So my questions are:

1) Did I goof by removing that underscore? And if I did, what
declaration should I make so that it will compile?

2) Am I going at this all wrong? Is there something I'm probably
missing? Can I ever truly understand this way of doing things?

3) Is there a better package that I can get for my purposes? I can
ftp, but I don't know the best sites for msdos.

4) Will I live if this isn't done by the 22nd?

email (abradfor@copper.denver.colorado.edu) would be helpful, but I
will continue to watch this newsgroup as well.
--Andrew