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Mouse doesn't work while running WP5.1 on RAM drive

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 03:20
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In a msg on <Aug 05 05:45>, Tsan Heui (chein@eng.auburn.edu) writes:

 TH> I like to have harddisk OFF as it is noisy and copy some files 
 TH> essential for functions except spell/thesaurus to RAM (as 
 TH> another drive.) I then have WP running using RAM and back up 
 TH> either on floppy disk or RAM. Here is the problem I have 
 TH> while using RAM: The mouse doesn't work!

Does WordPerfect have its own mouse driver? Are you using it? Did you remember
to copy it to the ramdisk?

Hamish
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From: Hamish.Moffatt%f3.n30173.z3@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
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Subject: Mouse doesn't work while running WP5.1 on RAM drive
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