Re: Proving myself

["kevin" <kjsisco@rcn.com>]

It is a dos-based modual.  I dare say if this were windows (xp specificly)
all you would have to do is rename it "mousemodual.exe" and it would be
recognized  by dos.  That should give you a small step in the right
direction.
Kevin
email:
kjsisco@rcn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Proving myself


> Kevin
>
> What *language* is this module code in?  Unix is not a language, it is an
> operating system, upon which all manner of languages can be compiled.
> We can't even use this code, if you don't tell us how to compile it.
> In order to tell us how to compile it, you will have to tell us what
> language it's in, or what compiler to use.
>
> Please, give us some help on making this work.
>
> A step by step of the form "first, save it as ...  Next, run the compiler
> as such ...  Then move the resulting object file to ...  Then, recompile
> your kernel as follows ...", or the like, would be nice.
>
>  Luke
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, kevin wrote:
>
> > First of all that file was "mousemodual"
> > Secondly, it refers to a unix system.  I did this to demonstrate that I
know
> > what I am talking about.  In fact, you will notice my use of comments in
the
> > code.
> > Kevin
> > email:
> > kjsisco@rcn.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis@shellworld.net>
> > To: <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 6:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: Proving myself
> >
> >
> > > It was text, saved as "mousemodule.mouse", by a DOS style system (DOS
> > > newline convensions).  Here it is, in its unattached form:
> > >
> > >
> > > MODULE      "PERIPHERALS/MOUSE"
> > > MSGCATALOG  "peripherals/mouse"
> > >
> > > -- Import some types
> > > TYPEDEF DeviceName      IMPORT ".DeviceName"
> > > TYPEDEF DevicePathName  IMPORT ".DevicePathName"
> > >
> > > device          RECORD {
> > > model         STRING MATCHES "[a-z0-9]*"
> > > protocol      STRING
> > > deviceFile    DevicePathName DEFAULT "/dev/mouse"
> > > threshold     UNSIGNED IN RANGE 2 ... 65535 DEFAULT "25"
> > > acceleration  UNSIGNED DEFAULT "2"
> > > emulation     STRING IN CHOICE {
> > > "none"
> > >           ":MOUSE_EMULATE_NONE:",
> > > "3button"       ":MOUSE_EMULATE_3BUTTON:",
> > > }
> > > }
> > > models          LIST OF RECORD {
> > >
> > > models          LIST OF RECORD {
> > > name          STRING MATCHES "[a-z0-9]*"
> > > protocol      STRING
> > > description   STRING
> > > deviceFile    DevicePathName
> > > driver        DeviceName
> > > }   NAMINGATTR name READONLY
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > >
> > > > I didn't even detach it, but it looked like a binary file to me from
> > > > the attachment description.
> > > >
> > > > If that's what it is, then I'm wondering if somebody has the guts to
> > > > run it (assuming that is possible), and report to us on what it
does?
> > > >
> > > > Greg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:08:09PM +0000, Luke Davis wrote:
> > > > > Okay, perhaps I am going to look like a fool for asking, but what
> > language
> > > > > is this thing in?
> > >
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