Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

It was the Independent in London where I worked from 1986 to 1998.
They used a system called atex which was fantastic. There were only terminal
and central server; thus there was no slot for a floppy. and that was before
email ( well there was a primitive email system ) But we had, as
correspondents, mail boxes. So I copied files to my mail box via dos. Then
in 1995, they got rid of the atex and used computers Apple Mac used
Microsoft word. There was a six months period when they used OS/2 system (
IBM). But they used word not XYwrite.
I will attach my start-up initiate file to this email, you can look at it
your self. But open it with XyWrite iytself as if you open it with notepad
the command BC will appear as ??.
I will try your suggestion later on, I am on a deadline now ( although I
work now for the Daily Telegraph & Daily Mail as a freelance writer)
Best
Adel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!


> ** Reply to message from "Robert Holmgren"  on Sun,
22 Jun
> 2003 09:05:31 -0400
>
> Adel, there's a compelling reason to make a dedicated icon for XyWrite.
When
> you start XyWrite from a DOS command prompt, you're really utilizing or
> "borrowing" the "DOS Prompt" icon. So the Properties you would manipulate
to
> get the XyWrite effects you want are actually those of the DOS command
prompt
> -- which, presumably, you use for other purposes beyond just XyWrite.
What
> looks good with XyWrite might look terrible with another program.
Therefore,
> make a dedicated shortcut for XyWrite only.
>
> Which newspaper? I don't suppose you have the OS/2 version of XyWrite
that a
> few newspapers commissioned? I'd like to get hold of that.
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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>
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