Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I still prefer XP Mode to Vbox. I hope it's still in Win8.
Sadly it is not. Otherwise, I would not be bothering with VB. Who
knows? There apparently is some way to get XP running under Hyper-V,
the new (and apparently superior) virtualization technology, but for
a start you must have Win 8 Pro. I need to investigate this
As Kari Eveli suggested, I work on the file in the virtual machine
and then export it to Win7.
I am sure this is best practice but it would drive me nuts so I just
let XP access my entire hard drive directly. Following Kari's cogent
warnings, I am considering changing to a safer practice.
I am sure there is some way around this problem with VB, or that it
will be fixed. ? ? ?
So I write and edit the file with XY4 in XP Mode, the virtual
machine, in my C:\xy folder within virtual XP. Then when it needs
to go to the outside universe, I send it to a different folder with
the same name: C:\xy in Win7. So yes, there are two copies of each
file on my computer but considering the size....
I have CTRL-C assigned to this in my .kbd file.

Table=CTRL

46=BXs,a,/,n,v, ,\,\,t,s,c,l,i,e,n,t,\,c,\,x,y,Q2
You could see if that same .kbd assignment (on any key you prefer)
would work in VBox.
Jon Pareles

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    Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:57:30 -0800 (PST)
From: J R FOX 
Subject: Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1

This sounds like a problem I mentioned previously re XP Mode in Win
7, where I could only see three files when calling a Dir -- all of
them files pertaining to the virtual machine itself, rather than
anything I actually wanted to find. So far, I've not been able to
get to the bottom of this. It does seem to render having gotten the
VM functional rather moot.
I'll have to confirm this the next time I get to work on that
laptop, but I don't think the older Windows programs I got working
in this VM suffered from this problem.


  Jordan

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> From: Bill Troop 
>To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
>Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:04 PM
>Subject: Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1
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>I still have a mystifying problem with XyWrite: I can't get any
directories to display on the VBOX shared drives (which I have
given letters g: and h:). Xy4 will call up files on the shared
drives if I issue ca _filename, happening to know the filename. But
it simply won't display a directory. If I go into DOS from XyWrite,
the directories display as normal. Anyone got any ideas? (. . .
can't wait for Windows 9!) - - B
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