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[pointing.device]
Name = Filename,"Description",VirtualDevice,[AdditionalInfo]
 
The [pointing.device] section specifies the files required to install a
mouse driver.
 
Parameter       Description
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Name            Specifies a unique name identifying the mouse driver.
 
Filename        Specifies the MS-DOS filename of the mouse-driver file.
 
Description     Specifies an ASCII string that describes the mouse driver.
                This parameter must be enclosed in double quotation marks
                (").
 
VirtualDevice   Specifies the MS-DOS filenames of the associated
                virtual-mouse devices to be installed for 386 enhanced-mode
                Windows. If more than one filename is given, the parameter
                must be enclosed in double quotation marks (").
 
AdditionalInfo  Specifies the name of the additional information section (in
                the same information file) that contains additional commands
                for the Setup program to carry out when installing this
                pointing device. This parameter can be used to direct Setup
                to add device-specific information to an initialization file
                such as SYSTEM.INI, or to install files on which the
                pointing device driver is dependent.
 
Comments
 
If the AdditionalInfo parameter is given, the information file must contain
an additional-information section having the name specified by
AdditionalInfo. This section has the form:
 
[AdditionalInfo]
Filename,Destination,INI-Filename,Section,"DeleteLine","AddLine"
 
The following list outlines the parameters and provides a brief description
of each.
 
Parameter     Description
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Filename      Specifies the MS-DOS filename of the driver-support file such
              as a dynamic-link file required to operate this display
              driver. This parameter must have the form id:filename where
              id specifies a disk identifier. This parameter is optional.
 
Destination   Specifies the WINDOWS directory to receive the file specified
              by Filename. This parameter can be 0: or 0:system specifying
              the Windows root directory or the SYSTEM directory. This
              parameter is required only if a Filename parameter is given.
 
INI-Filename  Specifies either WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI. Use SYSTEM.INI for all
              device-specific initialization settings. This parameter is
              optional.
 
Section       Specifies the name of the section to modify in the given
              initialization file. This parameter, usually the same as the
              pointing-device driver's filename, is required only if an
              INI-Filename parameter is given.
 
DeleteLine    Specifies a line of text to delete from the specified section
              in the initialization file. Setup uses the parameter as a
              regular expression to search for and delete the first matching
              line. This search is not case-sensitive. The parameter must be
              enclosed in double quotation marks (").
 
AddLine       Specifies a line of text to add to the specified section in
              the initialization file. The text must have the form
              keyname=value and must be enclosed in double quotation marks
              (").
 
Example
 
This example shows the [pointing.device] section in an OEMSETUP.INF file for
a specific mouse driver:
 
[disks]
1 =. ,"OEM Mouse driver disk #1"
 
[pointing.device]
oemmouse = 1:oemmouse.drv,"OEM Mouse driver",1:oemvmd.386
 
See Also
 
[disks]
 
 
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