IBM Partner Pavilion TrackPoint manual OS/2, Device

Installing

the

Device

Driver

for

DOS,

Windows

3.1

or

OS/2

Version

3

Important:

If

you

are

using

DOS

Version

5.02

or

later,

Windows

3.1,

or

IBM

OS/2 Version

3,

you

do

not

need

the

Option

Diskette.

The

mouse

device

driver

is

included in

the operating

system,

but

must

be

activated to

use

the

TrackPoint

pointing

device. If

a

mouse

already

works

on

your

computer

system,

you

do

not

need

to

do

anything

further.

Note: Scrolling, Press-to-Select, and Magnification features are not available in these operating systems.

Your

system

must

have

MOUSE.COM

installed

in

order

to

activate

the

DOS

mode

mouse

device

driver.

The

setup

of

some

operating

systems, however,

might

not provide a selection for

TrackPoint. If

there is no selection for

TrackPoint,

select

the

IBM

PS/2

mouse

instead.

Refer

to

your operating system documentation

for

selecting

pointing

devices.

Activating the DOS Mode Device Driver

To activate the DOS TrackPoint device driver:

1.Start the computer.

2.Type MOUSE and pressEnter . This command activates the MOUSE.COM program.

The device driver activation is now complete.

Activating the TrackPoint Device Driver Automatically in DOS

To

activate

TrackPoint

automatically

whenever

you

start

the computer,

add

the

MOUSE

command

to

the

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file

on

either

drive

C

or

the

diskette

that

contains

DOS.

1.

Use

a

text

editor

sucheditas

ore

to

edit

the

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file.

2.

Type

MOUSE

at

the

left

margin

of

a

blank

line.

3.

Save

the

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file.

Note:

If

you

are

using

the

DOS

Shell,

theMOUSE

statement must

appear

before

the

DOSSHELL statement

in

the

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file.

Refer to the DOS documentation for

more information

on the

AUTOEXEC.BAT

file.

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