Re: DOS 6 and Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 and Mathematica
- From: ianc (Ian Collier)
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 08:23:49 -0600
Peter M. Saama writes:
>
>5. If you are using a mouse driver or cursor program that allows use of
> custom cursors, disable it! It is fatal to Mma to have another
> program trying to manipulate the cursor. Note that many mouse drivers
> including MS have cursor modification built in. Disable all explicit
> custom cursor programs and check your win.ini file for POINTER.EXE
> (should be on the LOAD line). If it is there, remove the POINTER.exe
> from WIN.ini and promise never to use the mouse control panel again.
>
This is not actually a problem for Mathematica. It is rather the other way
round, that running Mathematica is fatal to POINTER.EXE. If you have
POINTER.EXE running when you launch Mathematica you will get a message such
as this:
Application Error
GROWSTUB caused a General Protection Fault in
module GDI.EXE at 0001:4521
Mathematica will run with no problems. You can leave POINTER.EXE in place
if you don't mind getting this warning every time you run Mathematica.
However since all it does is change the size of the cursor it should be
pretty easy to live without.
Ian Collier
Technical Support
Wolfram Research Inc.
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