Re: XYWRITE digest 2780

["Fred Weiner" fw1948@xxxxxxxx]

Friends,

Re: Parallels/Mac/XyWrite

I have a query in to a Parallels tech guy to see if I can use JPSoft's 4DOS command processor (instead of http://command.com) in Parallels on my Mac Mini dual core; I'll keep the list posted for those who want to use their Macs to run our favorite word processor.


Fred Weiner

On 1/7/07, XYWRITE: Xywrite Word Processor for Dos & Windows xywrite@xxxxxxxx wrote:

                            XYWRITE Digest 2780

Topics covered in this issue include:


  1) Re: Windows 2000 question
        by mailto:Writer892@xxxxxxxx
  2) Re: AW: Xy on Mac revisited

        by Philip Friedman mailto:pfilf@xxxxxxxx


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Subject: Re: Windows 2000 question
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Yes, XyWrite -- in a window -- is the only program that is acting up.

Full screen it seems to work fine, but the font on the screen is horrible
almost unmanageable.
I'd rather work in a window.

Thanks,

Bob Ashley

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Thanks,

 

Bob Ashley 


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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:59:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Friedman mailto:pfilf@xxxxxxxx

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Lisa Kleinholz mailto:lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx
> Have my new
>macBook up & running and broken in a bit. Just installed Parallels and
>cannot make head or tail out of how to install MS-DOS. If anyone would
>be willing to help me off list after Jan 16 I would be much obliged ...

>The whole purpose of this gambit is to see if Xy4DOS will run more
>comfortably on a mac under DOS than with Tame on XP. I promise a full
>report (for non-techies) sometime in February.

Lisa,



I'm looking forward to this (and would be interested in the interim stages, too, offlist or on) as I teeter on the brink of supplementing my W2K Thinkpad with a Mac.   (I'm stuck in/on Xy3+ for now, but assume that what works for 4 in this context will likely be good for 3+)


I  looked at the parallels forum link you listed

>http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-3348.html; _onclick_="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-3348.html

and agree that a lot of the posts seem either worthless or like gibberish.  Persisting, I found at post #8 a referral to
http://allbootdisks.com.  promising bootable versions of DOS that work as is with parallels, so maybe that is worth trying -- it seems fairly clear and not to have too many steps


In any case, the allbootdisks site looks interesting as a source of downloads for everything from early DOS versions (
4.x) through XP, and thus potentially useful for folks on this list even if they have no Mac desires, though perhaps other such sources are already known.

Philip
>
>Lisa Kleinholz
>http://www.kleinholz.com
>