Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:09:12 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 12:39:45, Alois Ganter wrote: > >Try it. Kick your table to move the mouse arrow for more than say 50 pixels. I >got a numb fist just now while experimenting. > This happens to me all the time. Method 1: Mouse cord has a bit of "spring" or "twist" in it. It will tend to pull the mouse around, particularly if you bump the table; method 2: mouse cord dangles off back of table to rear of computer. This puts a bit of gravitational force applied indirectly through the cable to the mouse. The cable tries to slide off the back of the table (or in my case, off the side) and a bump of the table will see the mouse sometimes end up totally off the table. >> >> >> >>> >>> >>>a) Auto232 is RS232. There is no TCP/IP based protocol. >> >>So? I can flood you with characters just as I can flood you with packets. >>What are you going to do about all those interrupts? >> > >Ok. Of course the program starts logging and screaming if it receives any RS232 >input during an autoplay session which is not a legal and fair move message. >' Then I just toggle DTR on and off. :) Rapidly. :) >It always comes down to the same argument. Some input arrives at some port, may >it be RS232 or TCP/IP, you look at it and if you don't like it, you protest. Or maybe no input... just a "condition" that causes someone to take action. > >I think they get bogus results from the faulty old DOS driver, not from the new >windows programs.
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