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From: jalvarez@uno.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Mouse on text mode (gpm ?)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 18:55:00 PDT
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Is there something in FreeBSD to get the mouse coordinates and/or
movements from text mode applications ? I am looking for something
similar to the 'gpm' utility on Linux. Possibly someone has ported
'gpm' to FreeBSD ?

Thanks,
--Jesus Alvarez
  Software UNO