The comment symbol for XPL programs is ;*; (semi-star-semi)
Well, duh. 20-plus years of XyWrite and I should have known or remembered that. Macros are now in the keyboard file and working fine. Thanks, Carl.
Memory usage mysteriously went up to 11 with my macros deleted from Startup.int, but with HLP and LDSGT commented out, it is now down to a svelte 2. KILLMEM reduces that to 1.
However, the CLIP problem persists and any thoughts on that would be welcome.
Here's the revised startup.int.
BX DEFAULT DR=C:\XY Q2;*;
;*; BX D EB=0,0 Q2;*;
BX LOAD C:\XY\SETTINGS.DFL Q2 FF;;*;
BX SETP 1 Q2
BX LOAD C:\XY\XY4-3.KBD Q2;*;
BX LOAD C:\XY\XY4.MNU+C:\XY\XY4.DLG Q2;*;
;!
*; BX
LOAD C:\XY\XY4.HLP Q2;*;
BX LOAD C:\XY\DICTION Q2;*;
BX LOAD C:\XY\XYWWWEB.U2 Q2;*;
;*;BX LDSGT C:\XY\SAVEGET.SGT Q2;*;
BX DSORT F Q2;*;
BX C: Q2 ;*;
BX CD c:\XY Q2;*;
«IF«VASM»==1» SH«EI» ES;*;
Jon Pareles