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From: jonk@netcom.com (Jonathan Dale Kirwan)
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse Data Stream Format needed
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prefect@sidehack.gweep.net wrote:
: In article <jonkDBCws9.A3n@netcom.com>, jonk@netcom.com (Jonathan Dale Kirwan) wrote:
: >I'm hoping to save myself unnecessary effort.  Scanning through a large
: >set of source code, with which I am completely unfamiliar, is something
: >I will save until I have exhausted other avenues.  Perhaps you might
: >already know which particular routine within X would be appropriate?  I'm 
: >not averse to your suggestion, just not excited by the effort implied.

: Check out gpm (general purpose mouse), a package for Linux that will talk to
: lots of different kinds of mice... it's not a huge amount of source, and what
: is there is mostly mouse-related.

: sunsite.unc.edu (or any mirror)
: /pub/Linux/system/Daemons/gpm-0.97.tar.gz

Hey, thanks!  I will.  I have accumulated enough information already to 
satisfy a first-cut test, emulating the "long form" communications.  But
I would very much like to handle the short-hand version -- less interrupts.

Thanks.

jon

