Msg: Re: Leaving XP for Windows 7 at last

As a relatively computer-illiterate person, I always want to try the easiest solution first. That's probably the unsatisfactory XP Mode -- although I seem to remember a couple of people on the list saying they ran Xywrite with TAME in Windows 7 without using XP Mode.

But if vDosXy really is easy to set up, I can't resist experimenting with it. It sounds almost too good to be true.

Lynn

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Martin J. Osborne mailto:osborne@xxxxxxxx wrote:

I found the interaction between XyWrite and Windows in XP Mode to be clumsy. It's seamless under vDosXy.

On 04/11/2015 10:08 PM, Lynn Brenner wrote:

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

if you're more interested in running Xy as a freestanding program
(as opposed to having it interact with Windows programs), I would
give serious consideration to running XyWrite in a virtual machine.
On the other hand, vDosXy is so easy to set up, and works so well,
that you can hardly lose by trying it.

I can't do without some interaction between Xywrite and Windows: I write
and edit everything in Xywrite, then open Xywrite files in Notepad, and
copy and paste them into Word to email to my editors. I also use Notepad
as a conduit to save research material to Xywrite.

It's very convenient for me to have Xywrite, Notepad, Word, and Firefox
on the same desk top, where I can quickly move between them.

Could I do that if I ran Xywrite in a virtual machine?

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