The 'curses' term comes from the Middle and Old English and refers to the calls for divine or supernatural powers through incantations or prayers. I have used these extensively on various machines of the tempermental persuasion. They don't do much good except to allow the blood to flow again Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam MacDonald" <smac at visi.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mouse > I've heard the term "curses" before and I've never really cared to ask > until now. > What does the term "curses" mean? > > > Scot Jenkins wrote: > > >try this: dpkg-reconfigure gpm > > > >you should get a curses interface that lets you reconfig your mouse. > > > >Sam MacDonald wrote: > > > > > >>I got a really nice serial mouse now I need to setup the critter. > >> > >>I changer the mouse in the system setup (BIOS) to use the serial port. > >>Now that I think of it the serial port most likely didn't get installed > >>when I installed debian. > >> > >>Hmmmm.. am I screwed? > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list