Need program written c or c+ for using the mouse in linux in command line mode only with no gpm or x-windows installed, Please Help!

[me]

I have been looking online for a year, and cant find one.
I used to use the int86() command in dos command-line mode, but it can't
work in linux.
I am using Allegro to make my program work, but I need to put it on a
floppy, both the kernal and the program.
Allegro only works in X-windows, and is commericial anyway.
I have tried to figure it out from allegros code, but its too spread out for
me to get it all.

I just need a small program to read the /dev/mouse file and return the
mouses direction, button state, and its accelleration in any given
direction.

I can't see why I can't find it anywhere, doesn't anybody write code for
linux's command line using the mouse anymore.

I also don't want GPM installed either, just the command-line shell only,
with mouse support compiled into the kernel.

Please, if anybody know where I can find this, or has some really small code
for this, please post it.

I have tried reading the /dev/mouse file as a stream, and decoding the data,
but its above me.

Thanks.

MacGyver

[Kevin Goodsell]

me wrote:

I have been looking online for a year,

This is comp.lang.c++, not write.a.program.for.me. If you don't have a
C++ language issue to discuss, you are in the wrong place.

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