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Re: Resurrection of XyWrite?




I have tried opening them with Notepad and such. It doesn't seem to work.
Has to be a problem with reading the floppies. Notepad can certain read them. To see that reading is (or isn't) the problem, get a DOS prompt and TYPE the file (to the screen)--e.g., if your floppy drive is the a: drive, and the file is foo.bar in the root directory type a:foo.bar When, as I assume, that doesn't work, try: dir a:foo.bar
But I will try downloading the Xywrite III files I see posted and try that. Fortunately, I do have an old computer with working 5.25 floppy drive and 3.5" diskette drive which I could copy the files to and then transfer to a newer computer to use with whatever Xywrite program I download. Thanks
----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxCarl Distefano To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxywrite@xxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Resurrection of XyWrite? Reply to note from "steve reinemer" <mailto:stevereinemer@xxxxxxxxstevereinemer@xxxxxxxx> Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:31:39 -0700 > Anybody out there know where I can get a copy of the Xywrite II > program or compatible? I've got old floppies with family files > on them that I can't read because I don't have the program > files. Will Xywrite III open them? XyWrite files are Ascii, so if accessing the data is the main concern, you should be able to open and read the files with any text editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.), or indeed with any word-processing program. Of course, any XyWrite formatting commands in those files will be displayed as raw text, not translated into actual formatting on the screen. To view or print the files with formatting, any version of XyWrite will do. The bigger problem may be finding a floppy drive that will read those diskettes. There are external USB drives that will read 3.5" diskettes, but 5.25" floppies may be more of a challenge. -- Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx
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