Re: PIF files for XP

["George Scithers" owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx]

Try hitting . It works with XP on my non-Mac
computers.

G H Scithers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Weiner" 
To: "XyWrite List" 
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:39 PM
Subject: PIF files for XP
Friends,
I've just set up Windows XP on my Mac, in VMWare. An old
lament: can't get
XY to show up in a full screen, or even a maximized window,
without it
looking mashed up. I read through eighteen or twenty posts in
the archives;
made no real progress experimenting by following some of the
(occasionally
conflicting) suggestions there, such as:
Going to the shortcut, right-click on the upper left corner's
icon, changing
screen buffer and window sizes to 80 and 50. Then saving these
properties
for future windows with the same title.
Setting the conventional memory (in the PIF) to AUTO, Expanded
to 5120,
Extended to NONE, DPMI to AUTO.

Adjusting the path at the system tab in control panel.
Creating XYexec.nt and XYconfig.nt via the General --> Advanced
tab in
Properties. I have the exec set the TEMP variables and put a
shell= line in
the config to run the 4DOS command processor, nothing more.
The path to EDITOR.EXE is set as (on my system)
c:\xy4\editor.exe /4000.
I even cut the getxyos call out of my startup.int and did setp
manually
().
You may sense how I've flailed around, and failed: still have a
window
filling part of the screen with XyWrite compressed into its top
half, when I
use "maximize" and "window" in the PIF; when I use
"full-screen" the same
size thing shows up in the center of the screen surrounded by
black.
I will take part of today to go back over the archive posts,
but I'm
wondering, if anyone has a nice functional WINXP shortcut,
would
you be willing to attach the PIF and send it to me? I can look
it over
in a text editor and get some clues . . .

Thank you all,

Fred Weiner
fw1948@xxxxxxxx