Re: Hello to Xywrite mail list

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At 09:48 PM 5/18/99 -0600, Michael wrote:

>I've been a WordStar 6.0 and 7.0 user for years

Good grief, are there still those around? I started on WordStar, but
I thought that was another age...

>and recently saw a mention
>of Xywrite in a newsgroup I sometimes browse. My curiosity was piqued and
>while doing a web search, I stumbled across "XyLite". I've played with it
>for a few days, (enough to confirm I can setup at least some of my old
>wordstar shortcut keys)

The first thing I did, too, ages ago, when I got XY.

>and now I am intrigued and on the verge of buying a
>copy of Xywrite 4.0 for DOS.

Congratulations! Don't forget insisting on buying it as an upgrade --
otherwise they invoice you for the full phantasy amount.

>I wonder if anyone would mind answering a few questions? First, can Xywrite
>4.0 communicate with windows, via the clipboard for instance, as Wordstar
>7.0 can? In that vein, while I still run DOS on an old laptop and prefer
>writing with WS 7.0 DOS, I'm forced to use Windows on my desktop machine.
>So I'm wondering if either the Windows or DOS version of Xywrite is more
>hightly recommended?

The easy way is using the Windows version, but that won't get you
any respect from the power users :-)

>And finally, with all of the configuration options
>that seem to be available, can I assume that the currently available
>versions of the software come with plenty of documentation to tell me how
>to do what?

Ummm... I think you just subscribed to the documentation... :-)

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