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["[R. E. Stannard Jr.]" stannard@xxxxxxxx]

I'm a lurker on this list (delighted to find a community of stubborn
XYWrite devotees, having had no luck with TTG) but wonder whether there is
an L-DIGEST version that just puts out the accumulated dialogue in one or
two batches a day as on a couple of other listserves I subscribe to.
-o-
while I'm surfaced for air, anyone out there have a good guess why my XY4
for Windows has lately begun responding to any print command beyond page 1
with a simple DONE in the status line but doing nothing, sending nothing
to the printer. Nothing. Just that smug DONE. It also, after one printing,
refuses to do it again. It also doesn't seem to recognize directions to
print more than one copy of the page.

It prints page one okay as a single page. If I give a general (all pages)
command from page one, it prints page one okay, but on all subsequent
pages prints each each letter with a texture screen behind it (and takes
forever, of course).

I tried reinstalling the whole program, but it made no difference.I'm
printing to an OKIDATA-400, and had been for some years before this
problem arose. (It seemed to start as an occasional problem.)

I'm no power user, and am quickly overwhelmed by jargon, so would
appreciate any helpful suggestions be worded very step-by-step. I do have
most the literature from 3. onward (including Signature, which I never
used before they came out with its post-IBM successors) but no programming
savvy.

I'll understand if you powerhouses don't have time to brake for this
turtle trying to cross the road.

-o-

Any chance you guys could pool your pennies and buy XYWrite out of
capitivity where it languishes? I too long for the old user-oriented days,
and cannot imagine why TTG acquired it or keeps it, for all it does with
it... I hate WORD, with its fat,fat, files (I found it hard to believe
they could really be ten times fatter than the same copy in XY) that clog
up my floppies .

-0- While I'm out here, any of you familiar with another great idea
allowed to languish and disappear: the Canon Notejet II laptop with
builtin printer? A truly sweet machine -- handy, versatile, and marginally
bulkier than its non-printing rivals. Not only did hardly anyone EVER hear
of it when it first came out around 93 -- the most underpromoted product I
ever saw -- but five years later had not only vanished from stores and
mailorder, but has raised only bafflement with service technicians.

Canon had farmed off all its servicing to an outfit in the midWest which
twice bounced my machine saying they don't service that model any more (I
bought it in 94) regardless of Canon's exclusive contract. And they
wouldn't release any schematics either, so my local laptop specialist
couldn't get anywhere. (Why can't old schematics be put on a website for
diehards trying to keep good ideas alive?)

Anyway, if anyone knows a user group or listserv for Canon Notejet II
devotees, I'd like to hear. I might even be in the market for a junked
unit to cannibalize for parts.

[I realize Canon has a super-successor version with full color, scanning
head, and other marvels, but I'm not in its several kilobucks league. Mine
cost me $2700 new, and was selling a year later (new) at $1,300, but has
been comotose in my local ICU since last summer when it suddenly began
hemorrhaging ink as we transited LA airport enroute Shanghai > Fresno. We
replaced the printer, but then the screen lost its tongue .... etc etc etc]

Sorry for the long message here. I've been silent as the Sphinx for
months. Nice to have found folk who have even heard of XYWrite.

			Ted Stannard

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