Re: XyDOS Window box colours

["Robert H. Kubie" rhkubie@xxxxxxxx]

Your message prompts a recollection that may or may not bear in any way on
what you say.
 
It is that I learned some time ago that if I want to install XyWrite from
the old 3.5" floppies I have, I must copy their content onto my hard drive
and run install from the hard drive.
 
The novel, surprising and absolutely necessary twist is that I found I MUST
copy the 3.5" floppies onto my hard drive IN REVERSE ORDER. First Disk 4,
then 3, then 2, etc. Then and only then can I go to the directory into
which I have copied the disks and run "setup" or "install" or whatever it
is you run to set XyWrite up (I have not installed it for a long time).
If all of this is quite irrelevant, my apologies.

--Bob Kubie

At 12:02 PM 8/30/2004, you wrote:

> At 8/30/2004 01:36 PM -0400, Myron Gochnauer wrote:
>
> > > I browsed around looking for an original, plain-vanilla XyWrite display
> > > file, but couldn't find one. Can anyone point me to an "original"? My
> > > disks are hidden somewhere in the basement.
>
> This reminds me: I've got the 4.17 floppies and would like to simply get
> the files onto a CD: fresh files, as Myron calls them just in case. I
> tried to "install" to a temp directory on a W98 machine and couldn't get
> it to work (did not try same on XP). And searching the archives I must
> have missed the posts on this; I remember such a discussion. A gentle
> reminder or pointer to the posts would be appreciated.
> Michael Norman