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Re: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age...
- Subject: Re: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age...
- From: peregrine@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:43:02 -0400
Great ideas, Marc and George. A few years ago I burned a CD backing up all my XyWrite files, including customized settings and KBD files.
It's been very handy to have as I've migrated from one computer to another, but I hadn't really considered setting up a BOOTABLE CD until reading your messages just now. Most computers these days will boot from CD ... fewer boot to a USB device ... but both are great ideas that are a potential boon to me. I imagine with a CD, I'd have to set XyWrite to use a default directory that exists on any computer (C: or C:/temp) and include the CD directory (usually D:) in the Path.
Can any of you recommend other workarounds that would be needed to make such a CD functional?
I use Xy4, but I still have the original packaging, documentation and 5.25" floppies for XyIII+. And a copy of Herb Tyson's "XyWrite Revealed."
Thanks!
Jeff Seager
From: "Marc" mailto:marc%40paradise.net.nz
To: mailto:xywrite%40ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age...
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:29:13 +1200
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Hello
This is not related to any particular discussion thread, but it is a
situation that happened to me recently, and how I overcame the problems.
I have a contract to extract legal information for a company that prints
(and glues in to the legislature volumes) annotations.
They use XY III and, due to a lack of in-house expertise, they are not
looking at upgrading to any other version.
When running my XPL programs on an XP based PC, I would sometimes get
strange results, pages cut-off half way, the programs just not processing
all files in the directory, etc. To overcome this I kept an old IBM 486
which I ran DOS 6.22. All was good with the world.
Then the hard drive crashed. I had a company attempt to extract the programs
off it, to no avail.
I managed to find old versions of the programs (without modifications added
later) and eventually got them up to date.
The HDD crash got me thinking, and I ended up buying a USB memory key
(256Mb), formatted it as FAT16, Sys'd it and loaded up DOS 6.22, XY, Norton
Utilities 4.5 etc.
Now I can run XY-Write on any PC that can boot from a USB key - in a DOS
environment.
Whilst I may not have multi-tasking ability or data movement access (PC HDDs
are not available to DOS) but it is completely portable. I save the files
from my Windows Email to the key, reboot from the key, process the files,
restart in Windows and email the results back.
Since doing this I have not had any run-time gremlins whatsoever.
Marc
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From: "George Scithers" mailto:owlswickpress%40comcast.net
To: mailto:xywrite%40ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age...
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:43:15 -0400
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Now back up that USB key on a couple-three CDs!
AND also on a couple spare keys!!
G H Scithers