"If you are a paying customer of "TameDOS", you should rather contact their tech support..." I think I have tried that without success, but I can always try again.
"this whole issue doesn't seem to be even remotely FreeDOS/Cutemouse related" In my ignorance, I just Googled 'mouse driver for DOS' and CuteMouse was one result - it in turn lead to FreeDOS. I'm sorry about being inappropriate. Have a lovely ramble (for me). Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf A. Quint" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 7:05 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] CuteMouse > At 01:43 PM 12/25/2011, J.Philippa wrote: >>Thanks, Ralph, for your comprehensive treatment of my issue. >> >>"cutemouse.txt explains" >>It is just one of many instruction files in \doc\ > > Now that one should be an obvious one... ;-) > >>"I am not sure about Windows 7" >>I, on the other hand, AM sure. >>I have WP5.1+forDOS [and TameDOS6] working quite nicely in Win7 (32bit) > ... >>"to get it even work properly under Windows XP (SP3, 32bit)" >>TameDOS6 provides some useful accomodation of WP to Windows. > ... >>"I am not even sure if a stock WordPerfect 5.1 even is "mouse aware" to >>begin with (even under plain DOS)." >>I'm not sure either, but with TameDOS6 installed > > That might be a good part of your problem. I am not familiar with > "TameDOS6" (though the name rings a remote bell), so this in fact > could interfere with the communication between WP5.1 and the Windows > XP "mouse driver". > I just did a quick Google search and it seems to be a payware, though > with a 30 "trial period". I would have to download this trial version > later today and make some tests. But honestly, I don't really feel to > do unpaid troubleshooting for a paid product, as this whole issue > doesn't seem to be even remotely FreeDOS/Cutemouse related and that's > what we discuss in here. If you are a paying customer of "TameDOS", > you should rather contact their tech support... > > I am out of the house for a hike for the next 3-5h, to take advantage > of the nice, warm weather for a change today, so it will be a few > hours before I could get back to you with my findings... > > Ralf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
