On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the
> following:
> > Hadess wrote:
> > > - try "cat /dev/usbmouse" and move the mouse, see if any output
> >
> > I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few seconds...
> > 'file' said it was ASCII text, and the first few pages in 'more' were empty.
> >
> > Does that imply anything?
>
> You should probably do
>
> cat < /dev/usbmouse
>
> it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse,
> and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love
> screenshots 8)
>
> It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing "reset"
> helps if your characters get garbled.
Hence use `od' or `hexdump'.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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