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Dear Robert
I apologize for the way I worded my
question so that you thought
that I was asking about Dos. As a practical matter it would be impossi- ble for anyone who has been using XyWrite for more than 12 years -- as I mentioned in my second letter to you -- to not understand Dos. There is no way that you can make changes in either startup.int or the path settings in setting.dfl if you do not understand Dos. What I wanted and still want to find
out was and is how you set a
path in WINDOWS XP, not in Dos. I knew what the path was. I had pointed out to you in my first letter that d:\windows was the first directory in the path and that I had placed kmd.exe in that directory. I appreciate your telling me the commands for locating my operating system, but I already knew where my operating system was since I had put it there but that was not the question I had asked. What I had wanted to know about path was how to change it in Windows XP. It is very simple in Dos, you can change the path statement in the autoexec.bat. Unfortunately the reference manual I use for Windows XP, namely Windows XP, the Missing Manual by David Pogue does not discuss it and when I tried both through Search and through Index in the "Help and Support Center" of Windows XP I could not find any reference to changing the path. With regard to the reference to
autoexec.bat I was not asking you
what it was. I referred to it as "a" file called autoexec.bat to indicate that it was a superfluous file that had no function. In fact I indicated that the path statement in that autoexec.bat file on the c:drive was not a functioning one since it differed from the path statement obtained when typing echo %path%. I am still confused about REGEDIT as
used on the XyWrite web site
and would appreciate where I could find a clear explanation of the term as used in connection with U2. I have used REGEDIT to edit my windows registry in Windows 98SE and in Windows XP. However, I have not seen or heard of the term in any other context. There is no reference to it under the letter "R" in the index to either the XyWrite Command Reference Guide, the XyWrite Customization Guide, XyWrite 4 Macros by Campbell and Allen, XyWrite Revealed by Herbert Tyson or in Write Made Easier, Revised and Expanded for XyWrite III Plus, Forward by John C. Dvorak, by David H. Rothman. Nor could I find any reference to it in my manual for Nota Bene 3. In fact when I did a search in the allnews directory of newspapers on both Lexis and Westlaw for Regedit and XyWrite, I could not find a single reference. I am appreciative that you and the
others are able to keep the XyWrite
users group alive and functioning since otherwise those of us who are still using XyWrite in an increasingly hostile world to dos users and are cursing Gates and Microsoft would have nowhere to go for help. In any event I am sorry if you feel I am wasting your time by asking a question before doing my homework. I thought that I had. mailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx or af413@xxxxxxxx
mailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx or mailto:af413@xxxxxxxx
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