Re: Getting Xy4Dos Up & Running on T61 with XP-Pro

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Peter Goldberger wrote:
> Sorry to report that following Patricia's crystal clear instructions
> gave me yet another lovely desktop shortcut to a 1-second XyWrite
> session. It opened editor, and a second later it crashed just as before
> and as it did after each of the other proposed solutions. If neither
> Carl, nor Robert nor Harry nor Patricia has the solution, it seems
> doubtful that a solution is possible. And yet it must be.  Any other
> ideas?  Fresh copy of the whole program from XyWrite.com? I have my
> 4.017 disks, although the laptop, of course, has no diskdrive. I could
> copy the TTG disks into my office network and then back onto the laptop ...
> --Peter G
I don't think you need to do that, though I should recommend
copying a known good, working setup of Xy to CDs (a couple) and a
flash drive, and a backup harddrive if you have one.
The problem is not, I will wager, Xy at all, but the execrable,
reeking offal that Redmond rams down all our throats (and we
tamely swallow). Some setting in Windows is preventing a DOS app
from running (BBBG: oh, you don't want to run that old thing.)
See my previous post and let us know if that works.
Possibly relevant coincidence: you're working on a ThinkPad; I
started (I think) having the problem with dBase after I installed
Lotus Millennium Suite on the XP rig. So maybe IBM is the spanner
in the works. Going to uninstall Lotus and see what happens (but
I need 123, darn it).
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx