Re: robert's advice on setting up shortcuts and icons to start xywrite

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

I don't know how to partition a drive, or put (or use) anything in Windows
program files, but I've been running XY from below windows in 6 or 7
machines, starting with Windows 95, and never had any trouble. I use
laptops, so I can't install a second drive, (although I would like to.)


I do use a usb key to back up my dos files, and I have (recently) learned to
do it in Windows. I liked the last century better than this one anyway.


andy t



----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: robert's advice on setting up shortcuts and icons to start
xywrite




Andy Turnbull wrote:


First, I always run from directory \xy -- below windows.



Also, if it's of any interest to anyone, all my xywrite files are in
directory \A -- again below windows. I don't know whether that's normal
or not, but it seemed to make sense to me.


Better than c:\Windows or C;\Windows\Program Files, where M$
wants everything, but (as Robert and I have been saying till I at
least am blue in the face), your DOS apps and your data should be
on separate partitions or separate hard drives from Windows and
Windows apps.


Much as I hesitate to differ from Robert on a matter in which he
is light-years more knowledgeable than I, those who are perhaps
more icon-oriented might find it useful (in W2K on) to follow
Carl's advice and make the shortcut point to
c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c d:\xy4\editor.exe
where d:\xy4 is the drive and directory of editor.exe.
In Vista you must do this if you want to have any icon but the
blank piece of paper that expresses Microsludge's view of DOS apps.

And sorry, I started to give this whole megillah to Andy and it
got lost in drafts when I was swamped with other things.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx




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