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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!165.254.2.52!news.new-york.net!actcom!actcom.co.il!baum From: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il> Subject: Re: How use a mouse with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <32aa6a53.2747004@news.zippo.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: actcom.co.il Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93-heb-2.07.961213013532.18751E-100000@actcom.co.il> To: Enoch Wexler <wexler@inter.net.il> Sender: news@actcom.co.il (News) Organization: ACTCOM - Internet Services in Israel References: <32a6c4a1.5565599@nntpserver.vol.it> <32aa6a53.2747004@news.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:38:46 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32478 On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Enoch Wexler wrote: > A few days ago I asked the same question... > > On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:47:07 GMT, gcocc@mbox.vol.it (Giacomo > Cocchella) wrote: > > >How may I use a mouse (Logitech) under FreeBSD? I've installed it in > >XFree but I'd like to use it under tty. > > I asked ithere and repeated this question in questions@freebsd.org > and in hackers@freebsd.org. ONLY ONE answer came through: > > There is no standard API for a mouse in Unix (only under X). True or > false, I don't know. Well there is very nice cut'n'paste for virtual ttys program for Linux called gpm. Why noone ported it to FreeBSD? > > Never mind portability, it seems that nobody bothered to provide any > doc on programming the mouse under FreeBSD -- we are expected to > discover it by ourselves from mouse.h, psm.c and mse.c :-( > > I guess this piece of code was blindly copied from 386BSD :-) > > Please email me if you hear something. Enoch. >