Re: Egregious mouse behavior

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From: Glen P. Dudevoir
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 05:14

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In article <8997@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> terence@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Terence Chang) writes:
>Let's suppose you have a Mac+, System 6.0, Finder 6.1.  Let's suppose
>you removed the battery for P-RAM backup and put the Mac in storage
>for a couple months.  When you restore everything to working order,
>you can set the date and time and speaker volume via the Control Panel
>just fine.
>
>But for some reason, for the Mouse cdev, the mouse speed stubbornly
>stays on "tablet" (a.k.a. "very slow").  Booting off of System 4.2,
>where there is no such thing as variable mouse speed, everything
>behaves as expected.  Any advice?

You didn't mention whether you were running any inits, but  I have seen
exactly this behavior when running Stepping Out. Removing Stepping
Out from the system folder and rebooting solves the problem

Glen

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From: dudevoir@isl.Stanford.EDU (Glen P. Dudevoir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Egregious mouse behavior
Summary: Can't change mouse speed
Keywords: mouse, tablet, inits
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Date: 23 Jan 89 05:14:02 GMT
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