Editing the Dosstart.bat file to load mouse
When I had Win 95, I seem to recall that my mouse and Zip Drive were available in DOS Mode via an entry in the Dosstart.bat file.
After upgrading to Win98, those entries were erased and I'm not sure how to go about putting them back, or even if I'm supposed to in Win98.
My question is this: How do I load my mouse driver and Zip disk for a DOS Mode session? Do I edit the Dosstart.bat file? What should it look like?
I have a custom built AMD K2 400Mhz system with 128MbRAM. I use a Iomega ZIP disk (external) plugged into a parallel port and a Microsoft Intellimouse Pro.
Thank you for any assistance you can give.
After upgrading to Win98, those entries were erased and I'm not sure how to go about putting them back, or even if I'm supposed to in Win98.
My question is this: How do I load my mouse driver and Zip disk for a DOS Mode session? Do I edit the Dosstart.bat file? What should it look like?
I have a custom built AMD K2 400Mhz system with 128MbRAM. I use a Iomega ZIP disk (external) plugged into a parallel port and a Microsoft Intellimouse Pro.
Thank you for any assistance you can give.
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Thank you Dennis but I'm looking for something much more specific. I have looked in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft Hardware\Mouse Directory and don't know which file to point to and write into the Dosstart.bat.
Do you have an example of what the line would look like? Sorry if this seems a dumb question but thats why I came to this site. I'm certainly not an expert.
As I stated, I have MS Intellimouse Pro. There are two exe files in the above directory, they are mousex32.exe and mouse.exe
So what do I type in dosstart.bat?
Do you have an example of what the line would look like? Sorry if this seems a dumb question but thats why I came to this site. I'm certainly not an expert.
As I stated, I have MS Intellimouse Pro. There are two exe files in the above directory, they are mousex32.exe and mouse.exe
So what do I type in dosstart.bat?
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Thanks Dennis that is what I was looking for.
Okay, if you need help with the zip, let me know, but first you need the dos drivers and also the dos calling line syntax.
Yes, you would edit the Dosstart.bat file, and you would load a basic mouse device driver.
As for the zip drive, this will depend largely on the type of zip drive, the model and the manufacturers specific DOS driver calls for this drive.
Dennis