Re: NB and Xy

["P Ferreira" ferreira@xxxxxxxx]

I too have been playing around with the Nota Bene demo. And, unlike John
Gordon, I am far from impressed. Not only does my machine crash every five
minutes or so (perhaps this is to be expected from a demo), the NB program
is just plain slow -- at least when compared to XyDos or XyWin.

Indeed, the only improvement I have noticed is a cleaner screen font than is
found in either XyWin or XyDos (graphics view). I'm not about to shell out
$100 for this thing! I'll play around with the Smart Words beta if we ever
see it. But Nota Bene for windows is, as far as I'm concerned, a big
disappointment.

Also, I've never had a problem with the DOS versions of Orbis, or Ibid.
They've always worked well on my machine.

Phil Ferreira


-----Original Message-----
From: J.L. Gordon 
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx 
Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: NB and Xy


>On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:31:10 -0400, Steve Crutchfield wrote:
>
>>Well, I just spent some time poking around, and here's what I
>>discovered...
>>
>>Look at the file \nbdemo\users\nb.ini
>>
>>There is a section called [Startup]
>>
>>The lines that follow are our old familiar commands from xwstart.int,
>>with some oddities. Ferrinstance...
>>
>>load &user&nb.kbd=
>>
>>is the equivalent of
>>
>>BC load xw.kbd XC
>>
>
>I too have been playing with the demo and found the following
>empty file in c:\nbdemo:
>"nbstart.int"
>On a hunch, I copied the LOAD keyboard and LOAD speller lines
>from my Xy4 startup.int into nbstart.int and, bingo: NotaBene
>with a Xy keyboard!
>>
>>I'm nearer to reaching for my Mastercard to order the special for
>>XyWrite users on the NB website.
>>
>>Steve
>
>I did so yesterday. I think it will be worth it just to have
>Orbis. And the good news is that it appears to work, which I
>never got the DOS version to do with Xy4.
>
>Cheers,
>John Gordon
>
>
>