Re: XyIII+ in WinXP

[flash flash@xxxxxxxx]

Mark,

Few of us work in full screen mode. You can similate it by adding the
following line to your *.PRN file (which controls your screen display):

SL=xx

where xx stands for the number of lines to be displayed on screen.
Default is 25. The cmd line and header take up three, so figure 28
actually. Once you set this in Xy's *.PRN file, you will have to change
the properties in the desktop shortcut (see previous screen shots) to
match this value (28) so as to really see them in the windowed mode. It
may take a bit of fiddling to get a screen size you are comfortable
with--fiddling with the *.PRN file in Xy3 and manually matching it in
the shortcut properties.

≪the selections I make when in windowed mode have no effect on the
full-screen font; it seems to stay the same no matter what≫

Same for me running Xy3 in w2k. If it's readable for you, fine; no need
to diddle with it.

Next tweak: you may want/have to modify your KeyBoarD file to get full
use out of your ThinkPad's keyboard. Is this familiar turf to you?

Harry (resident Aristotelean) pointed out that there have been
significant additions beyond box-standard Xy4. Some gifted programmers
here at the forum have developed some nifty plug-ins the XyQuest
engineers never dreamed of. These include diagnostics, support for long
file names, file dates after year 2000, a CLIP.EXE program for
copy-pasting between Xy and Windows apps. (both directions), and dozens
more. Some of the plug-ins work only in Xy4. I don't need them, so I
have had no reason to ugrade to Xy4. You can't lead a gift horse to
water.

It is possible to copy-paste between Xy3 and Windows apps without the
CLIP.EXE plug-in, though the procedure is more cumbersome; once the
plug-in is installed, the procedure is very simple (and can be assigned
to a single keystroke in your KBD file, as I recall). If copy-paste
functionality is needful for you, let us know.

What improvements box-standard Xy4 offered over box-standard Xy3, apart
from the forum-specific plug-ins, I do not know, since I never made the
change to Xy4. One of the Xy upgrades offered the ability of Xy to 'see'
networked drives or partitions, I think. Other members will surely fill
you in.

There are, however, many task-specific programs available at the forum
which will run in Xy3 for doing useful things such as converting XyWrite
files to/from PDF or RTF files, printer drivers for more modern
printers, and so on.

Cheers,
Flash