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How do I get DOS + XYWRITEf onto
VISTA? kurt/Je-06-10
? Using a flash disk? my various DVD/CD DRIVES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE.
Thanks for the advice. kurt
In a message dated 4/7/2010 07:56:26 Pacific Daylight Time,
jr_fox@xxxxxxxx writes:
--- On
Wed, 4/7/10, Kari Eveli wrote:
> This
strikes a chord. Nowadays you can have a complete DOS
> machine within
your Windows machine. One needs an up-to-date
> browser and an email
program, but for many computing chores
> a virtual DOS machine is very
usable. Setting a virtual
> machine can be a bit tedious, but once
complete you have
> access to your favorite applications. I still use
XyWrite,
> DOS MS-Word, Xtree, Clipper, Brief, DOS batch files
and
> utilities. Windows 3.1 applications like Quark, Ventura,
>
Corel produce portable PostScript files you can distill
> using a modern
version of Adobe Acrobat. You can have the
> best of both worlds under
one hood. If you knew how to run
> DOS and Win 3.1, you can do it still
today.
Not XTree, really, for other reasons. It will choke and
die
if you try to access -- for example -- the quantity of stuff
that
would be found on a full CD. Today's larger hard drives
would also
be a 'No Go.' Luckily there is ZTree, a lookalike,
work-alike
successor, which is ready for today's file management
contingencies.
Jordan
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