Re: XyWrites 4 and 5

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Carl:
 I should have read my manual to move the command
line to the top of the screen. However I have
been unable to find the default unit that
"lengthen[s] the command line". Where is it? I
use XWin 4.11.
Thanks
Dick Giering

Carl Distefano wrote:
>
> Reply to note from rrr@xxxxxxxx (Yo Intl.) Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:17:21
> +0900 (JST)
>
> -> >like the older program. You can even lengthen the command
> -> line in >XyWin, and move it up to the top of the screen.
> ->
> -> Really? How do I do that? Some setting in the .dfl file, maybe?
>
> How'd ya guess? The setting is UI (User Interface). The command
> line is controlled by the 9th value, the PRompt line by the 10th.
> As it says right there in the file....
>
> -> >For overall stability, though, Xy4 is the way to go.
> ->
> -> I know that is polically correct opinion here. Still, some of
> -> us have both and feel most comfortable with XY3.
>
> Pee-Cee, Shmee-Cee! Mimi wasn't asking about Xy3. Her query said
> that she's "still a Xywrite 3.5 user" but "suggested to my manager
> that we get Xywrite Windows [or that] we should at least definitely
> upgrade to XyWrite 4.0". I was speaking (apolitically) to the
> relative merits of those upgrade options.
>
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