Re: Dodging Windows "Quit" default in XyWin

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Yo Intl. wrote:

> At 10:45 AM 5/17/00 -0400, Leslie Bialler wrote:
> >Do yourself a favor. GET RID OF XYWIN. Exorcise it! Eliminate it from your
>

> Do not. NB has some improvements, but also very strange
> characteristics, which made me basically go back to XYwin.

> Take the command line, for example. Whatever you type in there is in
> ASCII, whereas in the file it is in ANSI.

True, though I believe this will be changed. At least the search/replace
dialog boxes allow insertion of ANSI.

> Take the modification. There is no neat, clean .dfl file to modify,
> you have to go through the stupid graphical shell, which lets you do
> some things but not others.

Not true; the nb.dfl file is in your Nbwin\Users\default directory, and
may be modified as readily as any other xy/nb management file.

> Take communication. No RTF filter! Can you believe it?

This is definitely on the soon-to-be-supplied priority list. The
conversion program used is extremely good, but inexplicably never
included an RTF filter. With the move to NBWin, the clamour from NB
users who need such a filter has finally grown to a level that demands a
solution. Meanwhile, the long list of filters that *are* available
serves most purposes, and conversion seems as accurate as is possible
between any two programs whose features don't map exactly.


> And so on. I do not need that hassle. Keep your XYwin if it works
> for you.

I never could get used to it; too many unresolved problems now elegantly
solved by NBWin.

    Dorothy


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