Re: quirky cursor

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Avrom

Are you always running XY full screen? So far as I know the cursor
jerkiness does not affect full screen, only when running in a window.
That is certainly my experience.


Paul Breeze

Avrom Fischer wrote:
> I do not seem to experience the quirky cursor that many others
> experience in xp when running xywrite. Since I think the way I run
> XyWrite is different from the way most of the people on the list run
> xywrite maybe that provides a clue to the cause of the quirky cursor.
> I do not know enough about computers to know whether my experience is
> relevant but others such as Carl or Robert or Harry or Patricia may know.
>
> I always start my Dos programs from a Dos prompt - where the property is
> set to full screen. I always use a bat file to start Xywrite. I do not
> start xywrite from a shortcut on my desktop because I routinely switch
> to two other Dos programs, word for word to convert formatting codes to
> Wordperfect and wordperfect to print( I like the kerning program in
> wordperfect 5.1.)
>
> On the rare occasion when I have to access windows when I am in xywrite
> I alt tab back to windows. I also notice that if I forget that I had
> already opened xywrite and try to open a second Dos prompt to again
> start xywrite that almost always xywrite freezes in the startup process,
> or on the rare occasion when it does start it behaves erratically. On
> the other hand if I am running Wordperfect from the Dos prompt and open
> a second and even a third Dos prompt to run wordperfect that wordperfect
> does not exhibit the same erratic behavior
>
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