Re: xywrite Digest V5 #109

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

On 11/8/2013 3:15 PM, Jon P wrote:

But...why would you want to do that?


I use XyWrite almost exclusively to edit files that I will subsequently
export as LaTeX or HTML files. To export and process a file I press a
key combination in XyWrite that executes something like

dos/nv/x/z /c cmd.exe /c cp 
where cp is the external program that will process the file and
 is the active file in XyWrite. In XP, the program cp is
launched (creating the LaTeX file, compiling it, and opening it in a
viewer, for example) and control is passed back to XyWrite.


I could alternatively run the external program manually. But then I'd
have to click a few times to launch the program and type the name of the
file I want it to process. The way I have things set up, I press only a
single key combination in XyWrite to initiate the process.


Martin


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I suppose that when XyWrite is running in XP Mode, you can exit to
DOS by executing dos on the command line. But I assume that from
the resulting DOS prompt you can't run programs installed in the
real Win7---can you?

Martin

Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 03:31:56 +0000 From: Bill Troop
 Subject: Running programs from DOS in VM

With VPC on Win 7-64, going to DOS and executing Explorer results in
the following: an XP explorer window pops up and, amazingly, 'My
Documents' refers to the Win 7 environment. However, XyWrite is now
locked into the dos command line. It is frozen. Only once you have
closed the process you started (in this case Explorer) will you be
able to 'exit' back to XyWrite or invoke another DOS command. This
can be nerve-racking if you don't know how to unfreeze.




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