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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!zippo!news From: wexler@inter.net.il (Enoch Wexler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How use a mouse with FreeBSD Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 07:27:42 GMT Organization: Wexler Computer Systems Development Ltd. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32aa6a53.2747004@news.zippo.com> References: <32a6c4a1.5565599@nntpserver.vol.it> Reply-To: wexler@inter.net.il NNTP-Posting-Host: kube17.access.net.il X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 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 it here 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. 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.