Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:57:59 -0700

This is forwarded from the BITS (Big Island Telescope Software) listserver -
Does anyone in the EPICS community have any suggestions?

Aloha,
	Peregrine

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>From [email protected] Fri Mar 10 11:44 MST 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:41:49 -1000
From: Bill Cruise <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: mice
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Hi bits gang (if there still is one),

I want to use a mouse on a vxWorks system, as a user input device for
an autoguider.  The problem is that I can't find anyone who has done
this on vxWorks, who can just drop some code on me.  (The post I made
on the exploder didn't net anything.)

I am probably going to get a PC type serial mouse and hook it up to
either the tty port on the CPU, or to an RS-232 port on a XYCom VME
board.  Have any of you ever interfaced directly to a mouse?  I need
to know how to set up the port, and what messages come from the mouse.
With that I could cobble up something that would work fine, I believe.

I figure the best source might be very low level PC hardware
programming manuals, but can't find anything about mice in the books I
have access to.  If you have done this, or know where I can find the
info, please let me know.  If you just happen to have a couple of
pages of nice info, our FAX number is (808) 885-7288.

Thanks,

Bill

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