Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:57:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Mouse handling under vesa... yet again
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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Vincent D McCarthy wrote:

>      If you are using a mouse without Allegro then use Interrupt 33
> Function  0001h which will show the mouse, Interrupt 33 Function 0002h to
> hide mouse and Interrupt 33 Function 0003h Return Position and Button 
> Status 

This advice is okay, but I would suggest to use __dpmi_int instead of 
int86 to issue the mouse-related calls.  int86 could get you in trouble 
because of the 16-bit vs 32-bit registers issue.  See the library 
reference for int86 for the gory details.