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Re: Missing mouse cursor.

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From: Andy Sun
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 20:22
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s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes:

>I have a really wierd problem.  I have a 386 with a Quadtel Bios, and
>all has gone perfectly, until I tried Cscape (the demo version).  It
>works properly, but the mouse cursor is not visible!  By running the mouse
>around the table, various things light up, but of course you can't use it
>properly because you don't know where you are.  This is so in both text
>and graphics modes.  I have Wordperfect, Drawperfect, Quick C, Topspeed C,
>Metawindows, and lots more, all of which work perfectly with the mouse.

>Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated!

>--
>Regards,

>Ron House.   (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au)
>(By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)

As far as I know, the appearance/disappearance of the mouse cursor, at least
for Microsoft mouse, has to do with INT 33H. Check to see if you have any
hardware/software that uses this interrupt vector as well.

Andy

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Date: 24 Jun 91 20:22:10 GMT