Re: Running XY in Window

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

My XyWrite runs beautifully in full screen on the CRT in my office and
the flat screen on my home computers. Both are Dell P4's running XP.

Thomas J Hawley wrote:

> ** Reply to message from cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano) on Thu, 04 Nov 2004
> 21:01:06 -0500
>
> > would someone explain to me the apparent
> > obsession with getting Xy to run in a window?
> My experience: Some flat panel screens and their associated video cards don't
> seem to handle DOS applications very well in a Win 2000 / XP full screen
> session. And the CRT is fading fast in the marketplace.
>
> I certainly agree that full screen is a better place to work. But this has to
> be balanced against the time and effort of getting a ten year old DOS program
> to function satisfactorily in an increasingly hostile operating system and
> hardware environment.
>
> Tom Hawley
> New York
> tjh@xxxxxxxx


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