Re: Crazy mouse after running DOS in full screen

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From: /* Jeremy DuBois */
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 16:29

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In <1990Nov14.051545.21285@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:

> Things are ok, until I exit from COMMAND.COM, and go
>back into windows, or until I press Alt-Enter, which puts COMMAND.COM into
>a window.  At that point, the mouse is crazy.  I have to move it a LOT to
>get the pointer (mouse cursor) to move at all, and then it jumps around the
>screen in random fashion.  This persists until I exit windows, which I do
>from the keyboard by typing Alt-F X.  Then, if I immediately fire up
>windows again, the mouse is fine until I run COMMAND.COM.

  I noticed the same problem with my mouse, but only when running Procomm+
in full screen mode, and then Alt-Enter'ing it into a window.  I have not
noticed any similarity in our hardware configurations... I'm running a
Mouse Systems PC-Mouse in COM1, and an Orchid ProDesigner II on an
EPS 386/25.

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Subject: Re: Crazy mouse after running DOS in full screen
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