Re: Serial mouse

You (Pat Mackinlay) wrote:
>
> The best documentation I can come up with on the mouse protocol is actually
> the source to the abovementioned program "selection". This program basically
> allows cutting and pasting of characters on the Linux console (very handy),
> and is reasonably simple to follow. Seeing as it's so small, I'll mail you
> (Nick) the source in another message.

But beware that there are two kinds of serial mice for PCs: two-button
mice (Microsoft) and three-button mice (PC-Systems). I think selection
only handles the former. If needed I can dig up the sources of Mini-X
to find out about both formats.

        hp

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