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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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