Re: Goodbye Xy?

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

James Besser wrote:
>
> Well, I don't think so; we revert to XyWrite because it's just plain faster. Even on
> my 66 mhz machine.
>
  On a 586, I honestly can't see any speed difference. Haven't bothered
to time it with a stopwatch, but if I don't have to actually "wait", who
cares?
>
> If I remember correctly, Herb is using WFW because of the lack of configurability in
> DeScribe.

  Gee, he told me he used both, and had configured Describe to mimic,
essentially his old XY keyboard.

>
> I really dislike not being able to manipulate formatting c odes in
> DeScribe. A while

  Again, I don't know whether you can or can't in SW -- you definitely
can make them visible/invisible. I'll know later this summer when the
dox get translated.

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