Re: openoffice & xywrite?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Harmon Seaver  on
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:38:38 -0500


> I was also thinking though, of printing them to a postscript printer
> file in xy, and seeing if I can import that into OO. Or run a ps
> translator on it.

That's what I would do. PS is not a weak link! That's one
powerful language, and the commands that XyWrite generates
translate perfectly to PS (assuming a good prolog). Never
dreamt of importing PS into XyWrite, though -- don't know what
the mechanism for doing that would be! So it's a one-way
solution, XyWrite ==> PS.

> Also maybe will try running xy with dosemu in linux

Obviously, that would be simplest, but I thought your uppermost
purpose was to conserve battery life by running DOS, otherwise
why use XyWrite/DOS at all? Or do you just yearn for the simple
life again? (Are you really sure that DOS doesn't put the same
or more strain on the battery? DOS has a habit of giving 100%
CPU to the running app, and believe me, XyWrite gobbles it up if
its available. Maybe not many disk accesses, though...) I had
DOSEMU running smoothly with Xy under RH (some years back).

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