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I received helpful and interesting comments from Harry, Patricia and
Robert.
I have two major questions and a response to a very valid
question by patricia namely why I print in wordperfect. The major reason
is that I have been told by several graphics people whose opinion I respect and
my own observation that the kerning in wordperfect is far better than any of the
other word processors. For about 10-13 years I have been using
use new times roman generated by hp3,4 and 5 as my typeface on anything I send
out of my office. New times roman is a kernable
font. That isn't relevant to universal condensed which I use for
print outs of my lexis or westlaw downloads. I have been
printing them this way for so long that it has become automatic. I do no editing
in wordperfect of my lexis and westlaw downloads which are pure
text. Printing in wordperfect has never caused a single problem so
that I never explored printing in xywrite. The other reason is sheer
inertia. Besides I long ago lost the printer files for xywrite.
Robert recommended against a win98se dos boot disk to use for my dos
programs, namely xywrite and wordperfect. Robert I wonder since when I
write papers that go out of my office, it is very very rare that I go out of dos
and my dos sessions in such situations last several hours what is the drawback
to using a dos boot disk to ensure extra dos stability since I do not need to
access another operating system
Robert I am following your advice for which I am most appreciative of
about starting with in windows using icon shortcuts to start xywrite and
wordperfect, am getting partition magic, avoiding dual booting. In
response to you question I have xp, windows 98se and windows 2000. I may
even have millennium but I am planning to use xp pro in what I think is
called classic mode--it looks like windows 98se --unless you recommend something
else since I have been using it on my pc which died and have a fairly good book
on xp.
While my new pc has a 250 gig hardrive which I cannot conceivably
fill at the rate that I am going I am somewhat concerned as someone
who is very comfortable in dos and very uncomfortable in windows and so far have
had no problems using fat 32 and cannot think of any programs or files that I
save where it would make a big difference what would be the advantage of
making some of the drives ntfs
I am under the impression that you can covert fat32 drive to
ntfs but that you cannot reverse and convert a ntfs drive to
fat 32 That is one of the major reasons I never experimented with
ntfs. I do however have a big enough physical hard drive that I
could certainly convert one of the logical drives to ntfs but is that wise
for someone who is windows challenged.
----- Original Message -----
From: mailto:PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx href="mailto:PriscaMG@xxxxxxxxPatricia M. Godfrey
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx href="xywrite@xxxxxxxxXYWRITE@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: new pc finally arrived and have to make
decisions-help the best alternative: Windows 2000. It has the power and stability 98 lacks, without the eye candy (and gooey marshmallows at that) and idiocies of XP; and the most knowledgeable people on this list seem to prefer it, when they're forced to use Redmond Rubbish. Patricia M. Godfrey |