Thanks for the mouse info, Bob. I'll check my comm protocols and see what gets barfed out at start up. I'll kill this mouse yet! Tom At 02:48 PM 9/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: >The PC recognizes a serial mouse if it gets a "M" character after raising >DTR. > >Bob Ammerman >RAm Systems -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics