Re: limping along with Xywrite

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Doug:
 I also use XYWin 4.xx under win95 and send a lot
of XYWrite generated out via E-Mail. With the
Document/file open in a XYW window, minimize (the
hyphen on the top right of the screen) XYWrite.
Then go to the internet as you would normally and
set up to send a new message. After defining the
to-addressee and subject and with the cursor in
the text window, alt tab back to XYWrite. Use the
Shift down arrow to select a few paragraphs at a
time (this is one of the "bugs" in XYWrite in that
it has a size limit here) and click on EDIT and
COPY TO CLIPBOARD. Alt tab back to your E-mail
message composition window and EDIT PASTE. Repeat
until you have the complete file.
 I'm told that you can store the XY file and
attach it to E-mail but I've never tried this - my
e-mail files are relatively small and this would
be for long files.
 Hope this helps
Dick Giering

Doug Stewart wrote:
>
> I got your e-mail address from the Technology Group just now, and I'm hoping
> someone at your end can help me.
>
> I've been a freelance writer for 16 years, and I've been using Xywrite the
> whole time (legally, too), Atex before that, and I hate the idea of changing.
>
> Here are my two questions. If you can direct me to answers on the web,
> that's as much as I need.
>
> 1. Does anyone have a printer driver that will let me use Xywrite 4.014 for
> DOS with a NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer? The ASCII printer driver on
> my install disk almost works, but not quite. (The files I normally print,
> by the way, are paragraphs of 100-percent text, no fancy stuff other than
> occasional italics.)
>
> 2. How do I take a text document I've created in Xywrite and shape-shift it
> into Windows, suitable for e-mailing to editors? I know people must ask you
> this all the time, but I really am a klutz when it comes to Windows. I hate
> it. I've got all these stupid "Dummies" books lying around the floor of my
> office here, and they're not helping me.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm just a freelance writer, not a programmer. I am an
> excellent touch-typist, however, so I'm not entirely incompetent.
>
> I look forward to any tips you can suggest.
>
> --Doug Stewart.