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Dear Robert,
Thank you for responding. Unfortunately, I have some very
elementary questions before I can go any further in following your
directions.
After copying my current c:\xy4 directory and all its contents to a
directory on my d: drive which I called d:\xygood, I copied all the new
downloads referenced in my prior e-mail to the active directory namely
c:\xy4. I also downloaded reg-read.me into that directory.
Unfortunately, I am very confused or downright ignorant about setting up a path
in xp. when I typed echo %path% I got a path which showed my windows
directory on my d: drive. However when I called up a file
called autoexec.bat in my c root directory I found a path that looked
completely different and I am pretty sure is not the path in the sense that I
understood it in either dos or windows 98se. I also did a dir
auto*.* of the d: drive root directory. all I found was a file
autorun.inf. Checked the help under windows, it only talked about
understanding what a path was and not how to set it in windows xp. It was
also not described in my book on windows. Since you are clear that I need
to put c:\xy4 into the path how do I do it.
By the way since I have had windows xp(about 4 months) I have not had a
problem that I am aware running xywrite even though I do not have c:\xy4 in my
path. I do not know whether the following two items are relevant to
why I do not seem to have any problem even though xy4 is not in my
path. Two things you should be aware of, I never print in
xywrite. I always convert my document to pure text and print it in
wpdos5.1 or convert to a wordperfect document using word for word and then
print in wordperfect if I need the formating commands such as margins. I
only use two fonts, the hp built in fonts new times roman or universe
condensed on the hp4 or 5 or 3 laserjet printers. In addition my
screen is set to light green on black and I never fool around with any
screen fonts. By the way years ago the faa did a study and found amber or
light green on black was easiest on the eyes of those who sit in front of
computer monitors for any length of time.
My reason for preferring wordperfect 5.1 for printing is that I think the
kerning tables are as good as any I have ever seen and after 12 years I am very
comfortable entering formating commands in xywrite and knowing how they travel
into word perfect and the procedure only takes a minute or
so.
Again thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
Avrom
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