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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: Mouse trouble
Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:08:35 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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molson@milwaukee.rbvdnr.com (Matto) writes:

> It is a Mouse Systems Mouse but the switch can be set to 2 or 3
> (it doesn't say MS or PC).  I'll try it both ways and also the
> "button down" trick if necessary.

It's very obvious: `2' means `Micrsloth' (the old Microsloth protocol
knows only about two buttons), while `3' means `Mouse Systems',
sometimes also called `PC mouse'.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)