Warp + XyWrite 4.0 + Orbis: SOLVED?

["John Gordon" jgordon@xxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 01 Feb 1995 06:40:40 +0900, Dan Kanagy
 wrote:

>In article <62642.jgordon@xxxxxxxx>,
>"John Gordon"  wrote:
>| On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:26:53 +0900,

>| I was one of the original posters on the problem Dan K. now seems to be
>| having with Orbis and XyW 4. I still haven't solved the problem on my
>| laptop but my office machine now shows no sign of it. Here's what happened: >
>That's interesting since the problem I'm having is on a laptop. I was
>hoping that upgrading to Warp would solve the problem but it didn't. I
>do have suspend/resume disabled since that doesn't work under OS/2 (not
>a general problem with OS/2, I don't think, but one with my laptop--a
>Gateway ColorBook).
>
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>Dan Kanagy     Work: wordwise@xxxxxxxx    Play:
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Dan,

I may have solved my problem with Orbis and Xy4 on my Thinkpad
700 laptop, by accident! Normally I start XyWrite by
double-clicking on its icon which has custom settings for
memory, background execution, etc. Two nights ago, I started
XyWrite from the DOS command line window. Surprisingly, I found
that Orbis worked well. No crashes despite several switches of
textbase. I then tried XyWrite through its own icon and
immediately produced an Orbis crash. I then went through the
settings one by one changing the Xy settings to match those in
the DOS window. Nothing helped. I then remembered that I used a
customised autoexec.bat file to start XyWrite. Sure enough, the
default autoexec.bat in the DOS window had one line different.
For some reason I had REM'd out the following line: LOADHIGH
APPEND C:\OS2 ... etc. After taking this line out of the XyWrite
special autoexec.bat I ran Orbis and had no problems! The APPEND
statement may have been the source of a memory conflict with
Orbis. Caveat: I only tested Orbis for a short time, but what
was producing a crash within a few minutes of use before REMing
out the LOADHIGH APPEND suddenly ceased to do so. The next
morning I checked my desktop. It *has* the LOADHIGH APPEND
statement and yet causes no problems. Conclusion: a combination
of laptop and APPEND and Orbis which didn't work together.

I would be interested to hear if this solves your problem.

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J.L. Gordon
Dept of Anthropology
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, W.A. 6009, AUSTRALIA
+619 380 2850, fax: +619 380 1062
Internet: jgordon@xxxxxxxx
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