caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) (10/11/90)
Not too long ago I picked up MouseOff (by Mike Meyer) which runs under
2.0's commodities handler to provide mouse blanking. It works pretty well,
except that I have a couple of programs that don't like MouseOff enabled
(M1 Tank Platoon crashes when it tries to blank the mouse and A10 Tank
Killer gets a black image of the mouse frozen in the screen, for example).
Thus, to use these programs I have to disable MouseOff. Well, you know how
it goes, every once in a while one forgets and then you do the bitch and
moan as the machine reboots. So I got to thinking, it would be cool if
Commodities Exchange had an ARexx port in it (or does it already, and I
just haven't found it?). That way I could write nice little ARexx scripts
to start these programs that disable MouseOff for me and then turn it back
on when I am done playing. I am sure there are some other cool toys that
could be created if Commodities Exchange had an ARexx port.
So what do you folks think?
-=> CAW
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