Re: NB and Xy

["J.L. Gordon" jgordon@xxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:31:10 -0400, Steve Crutchfield wrote:

>Well, I just spent some time poking around, and here's what I
>discovered...
>
>Look at the file \nbdemo\users\nb.ini
>
>There is a section called [Startup]
>
>The lines that follow are our old familiar commands from xwstart.int,
>with some oddities. Ferrinstance...
>
>load &user&nb.kbd=
>
>is the equivalent of
>
>BC load xw.kbd XC
>

I too have been playing with the demo and found the following
empty file in c:\nbdemo:
"nbstart.int"
On a hunch, I copied the LOAD keyboard and LOAD speller lines
from my Xy4 startup.int into nbstart.int and, bingo: NotaBene
with a Xy keyboard!
>
>I'm nearer to reaching for my Mastercard to order the special for
>XyWrite users on the NB website.
>
>Steve

I did so yesterday. I think it will be worth it just to have
Orbis. And the good news is that it appears to work, which I
never got the DOS version to do with Xy4.

Cheers,
John Gordon