merat@radix (Merat Bagha) (06/16/88)
Here is a summary of the responses I have gotten to date regarding a problem with Microsoft Word version 4.0 which I mentioned a while back. Perhaps our friends at Microsoft will take note of this! >>In article <46@radix>, I wrote: >> >> Once in a while when in the middle of using Microsoft Word the program goes >> bezerk! >> >> etc. >> >> On a PS/2 Model 50 w/ IBM Mouse & DOS 3.3 >From ogcvax!hp-pcd!cmcl2!rochester!ur-valhalla!jal Mon Jun 13 11:12:34 1988 I have the same problems only I am using a PS/2-60. Otherwise the configuration is the same. If you get any useful answers I would appreciate the info. >From: cga66@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Kauffold) I have had a similar problem with Word 4.0 on AT&T 6300, running the AT&T mouse (Logitech). Moving the mouse will result in having the LAST key pressed being sent, repeatedly. Thus, if the last key pressed was 'a', moving the mouse in any direction results in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa until I hit ESC. This is a really bad effect if the last key pressed was BS or DEL. Bummer. The Logitech mouse worked fine with the earlier Word version (3.2?). I have the current release of 6300 mouse, and MS/DOS; rom is 1.43. I wrote to Microsoft on their trouble form, and they replied that it was a problem with the Logitech mouse. I have not had time to delve further, but your article suggests that Microsoft better have another look at it .... If anyone knows how to fix it (Microsoft included), I would like to know. Thanks in advance. >From omepd!mipos3!intelca!oliveb!ames!think!husc6!bbn!spdcc!ima!johnl Tue Jun 14 07:47:55 PDT 1988 I have a PS/2-50 with a Genuine MS Mouse and have the same problem, every once in a long while. The Logimouse has nothing to do with it. But what would you expect them to say? -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something From: omepd!ogcvax!sun!dasys1!art (Arthur Kreitman) Subject: Microsoft Word 4.0 bug The Microsoft Word problem you mentioned is related to mouse interrupt management on microchannel PS/2s. Microsoft knows of the problem and apparently has not allocated resources to fix it yet. The workaround is DO NOT TOUCH THE MOUSE, DON"T EVEN LOOK AT IT OR THINK ABOUT IT. ___________________________________________________________________________ -- -- Merat Bagha UUCP: ogcvax!omepd!radix!merat OR "radix!merat"@omepd.intel.com Radix MicroSystems, Inc. (503)690-1229 19545 NW von Neumann Drive, Beaverton, OR 97006