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Re: Borland C++ 3 is going crazy on me ?

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From: Patrick Taylor
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:26
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In article <1992Jul30.071029.457@cognet.ucla.edu> tmark@cognet.ucla.edu (Terence Mark) writes:
>From: tmark@cognet.ucla.edu (Terence Mark)
>Subject: Borland C++ 3 is going crazy on me ?
>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:10:29 GMT

>I'm constantly losing control over the IDE. Sometimes after some series
>of keypresses (I can't identify any particular precipitating conditions)
>I lose control. The mouse only moves on the perimeter of the screen,
>and does so erratically, random screens fly by me (mostly help), my
>computer makes little clicking sounds, and I can't use the keyboard to
>stop it. _Sometimes_ if I wait and am very still, everything will calm down
>and I can type (only, stil can't use the mouse) an ALT-Q to get out.
>If I then restart, everything is OK.

>This is really aggravating since _sometimes_ the thing never allows me to
>exit at all and I lose whatever I was editing. I have never had any problems
>like this with any other computer program.

>Has someone out there experienced this ? Can some *please* help me ?
>Because I'd hate to have to go back to Quick C 2.0...

>Thanks in advance.

Borland C is finicky about where you load the mouse driver.  Try playing
with your config.sys
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