Mouse In Dos Missing

I have a Pentium IV computer with Win XP. I put
a Trios hard drive selector on it and put a
small hard drive in the computer. I can run
either hard drive independent of each other.
On the small hard drive I installed DOS and
Win 3.11 for work groups. Both programs work
find. The mouse works in windows. However I
tried to install a DOS program that needs a
mouse and discovered I have no mouse in my DOS
progam. How do I get a mouse to work in my DOS
program? What to I have to install?

Thanks, Jerry

 

Find where the file mouse.com is located on the hard drive. Then, while at the dos prompt, change to the directory that it's located in and then type mouse. You won't see anything happen but it should load the driver. You could copy the file to the root of the win 3.11 drive (if it's not already there) and then all you have to do at the dos prompt is type mouse. You can add a line to your autoexec.bat to load it also. If memory serves me correctly, typing the path to mouse.com in the autoexec.bat should load it. Assuming the mouse driver is in the root of the drive and the drive is drive c you'd add the line c:\mouse to it.

 

Zander

I have a microsoft mouse driver on the C:\ drive,
but it does not load.

Here is my autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\WP51\
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
LH C:\windows\mscdex\ /D:don /L:M /V

How would I word a line to load the mouse, and
where should I insert the new mouse line?

I can edit the autoexec.bat in notepad but
I need to know what to put in.

Thanks, Jerry

 

Jerry, after the last line in your autoexec.bat file type in:

C:\mouse.com

or

LH C:\mouse.com

In the command immediately above the "LH" loads the mouse driver into upper memory. (Old DOS stuff!!!)

This assumes that the "mouse.com" is in the root directory of C:\.

If not then you will have to type in the path (e.g.: C:\Windows\mouse.com).

You could also load the mouse from the config.sys file if you have a "mouse.sys" driver on your computer. Below is a sample config.sys file I use to run an old DOS Solitaire game:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=C:\WINDOWS\Himem.Sys
DeviceHigh=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.Exe
DeviceHigh=C:\MSmouse\mouse.sys

Note the mouse.sys driver is in the directory C:\MSmouse\mouse.sys. It also loads into upper memory with the "DeviceHigh" command.