* * * * *  DMouse Tools  * * * * *

                                 version 1.0
                              by Rainer Koppler
                              August 30th, 1992

                             General Information

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        Disclaimer

        DMouse tools are Freeware. This means, that you are allowed to
        spread only the complete archive without charging any fee for
        any part of it. Furthermore the author takes no response for any
        damage caused by the usage of any program contained in this
        archive.

        Requirements

        To use DMouse tools you need the program "DMouse" by Matt Dillon
        (at least v1.25).

        What are "DMouse tools" ?

        DMouse tools are useful programs running in combination with
        DMouse. They make use of the IPC mechanism which DMouse offers.
        This version of DMouse tools contains 2 utilities:

        - DBlankNow
        - DSysMouse

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        1. DBlankNow

        "DBlankNow" activates DMouse's built-in screen immediately when
        it is run. This tools thus features a "blank-now" facility
        provided by many good screen blankers (also by own blanker
        "TwilightZone" ;-) ).

        Usage from shell: enter "DBlankNow" (after blanking the program
                          terminates).

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        2. DSysMouse

        DMouse's built-in mouse blanker is implemented as a quite dirty
        hardware hack (turing off sprite DMA, clearing data registers
        manually etc.) and does more than it should do: it turns off
        ALL sprites (thus it must be called "sprite blanker") !!!
        "DSysMouse" replaces the built-in mouse blanker with a system-
        conformant mouse blanker (SetPointer/ClearPointer) which turns
        off only one sprite: the mouse pointer.

        Usage from shell: enter "RUN >NIL: DSysMouse".

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        If you find any bugs or you have any ideas how to improve this
        product, then contact me:

              ///   Rainer Koppler
             ///    Stelzhamerstraße 9
        \\\ ///     A-4623 Gunskirchen
         \\X//      Austria/Europe

        internet: rainer@soft.uni-linz.ac.at

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