Microsoft Mouse and IBM Compatible

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From: George William Slade
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 23:10

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Greetings cyber-flunkies!  

I have a simple question.  How does one access the output from the
mouse driver?  I have an IBM compatible (286 DOS 4.01 and using a
Microsoft Mouse driver).  I would like to know what register or set of
registers contain the information from the serial mouse.
Since a mouse driver is used, I would think one does not read the 
COM port directly, but reads some spot in the memory where mouse info
is stored (and periodically updated).  

How do I get the mouse info?  I am writing some graphics utilities using
Microsoft C and could find no documentation on how to access the mouse.

Thanx

Bill Slade.



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From: isildur@wallaby.ecn.purdue.edu (George William Slade)
Subject: Microsoft Mouse and IBM Compatible
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