Re: XYwrite in books

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

" At 12:05 PM 4/16/98 -0700, Richard Sherer wrote:
" >" 04/16/98 -0700, Daniel Say wrote:
" >" >    Does anyone use XYWin exclusively?
" >"
" >" I do. For straight-ahead reporting, it has all the advantages of the old
"
" >	Rothstein's book on XY mentioned redefining the keyboard
" >	to act like the Wordstar of those days. Myself, I redefined
" >	the keyboard to keep the Chiwriter keys the same, along
" >	with my keyboard of PC-Write 2.6 ('the last good one')
"
" Is that Rothman? I was fascinated by some of the tricks he had, and adapted
" some of his macros. I still treasure the book.
"

	Ah yes, David H. Rothman. My mistake for mixing
	up the sound-alikes, and not confusing him with
	David J. Rothman.

	Amazon still lists Rothman's book as available

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   Xywrite Made Easier : Taming the World's Fastest Word Processor
          by David H. Rothman
  Availability: This title is out of print. Although it is no longer
  available from the publisher, we'll query our network of used
  bookstores for you and send an update within a week.
 
  ISBN Catalog Number: 0830612203

  You can read an interview with David H Rothman.
 
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  ___ XyWrite
  ___ Word processing
  ___ Word Processing In Business
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  Xywrite Made Easier by David H. Rothman
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  Rev/expndd Edition Paperback
  Published by Tab Books Publication date: April 1988
  ISBN: 0830630406
  ___ Word processing
  ___ XyWrite
  ___ XyWrite (Computer program)
  ___ Word Processing In Business
--------------------------------- end of Amazon extract -----

	David H. Rothman is one of those Washington, D.C.
	writers as is Herb Tyson, who used XYwrite for
	a lot of work.

	I still lend Rothman's laptop book out to people
	to suggest ways of cutting down diskspace usage.

	Rothman has a wordy, quirky home page:

  Linkname: David Rothman's No-Frills Home Page
    URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/home.htm

	and he supports other's pages include James Fallows,
	now editor of the newsweekly U.S. News and World Report,
	who writes on computing, word processing and other
	such matters for Atlantic Monthly from time to time.

	It was Fallows' article that put me on to Lotus Agenda
	and brought me back to Lotus Magellan, the latter I'm
	having rewritten for OS/2 and HPFS files.

  Linkname: Fallows Central: The Work and Links of James Fallows
    URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/fallows.htm


	And bring it back to XYwrite, (Wot dat? -ed.)
	
	While finding the references for Rothman's book and
	correct spelling and finding 25 David J books, I found
	that the munificent Powell's of Portland web search
	has a bunch of Xywrite books (.. proving Gresham's law?)

	I don't think much of Campbell's books, but the Expert
	advisor has some macros and I have his disk that he
	offered. But there are many errors and the book would
	need to be annotated with cross-references. Eh, it's
	cheap and a supplemental manual.
	I like Powells.

X-within-URL: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/mk-search.pl

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  ___ Xywrite Macros 4 Macros by Campbell, Art/Allen,
  Published by Mcgrawhill Inc (0830640479,1993)
  Subject: IBM, Section: DOS Software
  In Stock: 2 at 6.95 (markdowns, trade paper, Technical)
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  ___ Xywrite 3 Plus Expert Advisor by Campbell, Arthur R. G.
  Published by Addisonwesley Publishing C (0201517213,1989)
  Subject: IBM, Section: DOS Software
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  ___ Xywrite 3 Plus Expert Advisor by Campbell, Arthur R. G.
  Published by Addisonwesley Publishing C (0201517213,1989)
  Subject: IBM, Section: DOS Software
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  ___ Laserjet Companion Technoted for Xywrite by Peirce, J.
  Published by Microedge Inc (6001136017,1989)
  Subject: IBM, Section: Peripherals
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