Re: XyIII+ in WinXP

["John M. R. Bruner" jmrb@xxxxxxxx]

At 08:30 AM 7/13/2007, Mark Garvey wrote:

Well, that couldn't have been
easier. I followed the instrux, created a shortcut, and voila.  It's
coming up in a small-ish window that I'm unable to resize.  I'd be
interested in hearing how to run it full-screen, or at least in a larger
screen than it's running in now (I'm on a 14-inch laptop, and the Xy
window is taking up about a quarter of the screen.

After not running Xy for at least three years, it's interesting how
quickly some of my keyboard shortcuts came to mind. Told you those neural
pathways were burned in.


Thanks again, and any pointers about changing screen size, fonts, etc.
would be appreciated.


Mark


Get to Editor in the usual fashion:

        From start
menu, click command prompt

        cd
c:\xywrite (or whatever is the directory name for your XyWrite)

        editor



At this point, try alt plus enter and you should get a handsome,
full-screen display of  XyWrite.  Just like the appearance of
old!


Somebody gave us this information a few weeks ago, and I am most
appreciative.  That tiny DOS window on top of the XP desktop was a
real bummer.


Before I was given the above gem, I could change the font size (in the
DOS window) by the following method, but it didn't do a thing about
improving the depth of the XyWrite text screen:

        on start
menu, L click on command prompt

        R click on
blue bar at top of DOS frame

        L click on
"properties".

        in
"font" menu, change 8 x 12 to 12 x 16.


The other way is much better!

        


jmrb