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It is a wonder to me that so many
members of this very intelligent list have gone out and bought W2000 or
XP. For months there have been warnings in newspapers
and magazines that those OS might have trouble with DOS
applications.
If I needed a new computer
right now, I'd quick buy something running Win98 SE before there are no
more to be had.
Irene
Jordan,
if you don't mind letting me know if you end up having success with
this. I am in the same predicament - xy4dos on a Thinkpad with Windows
2000. This is the first time I am using Win2000 OS. I am ready to
fdisk the whole c: drive and start from scratch. I wouldn't mind doing
this, but I will lose all of the other default programs that come with the
computer - which I wouldn't mind losing either, but I'm worried about driver
issues, etc. Any suggestions from anyone? Sounds like I'm in
pretty bad shape, huh?
--mimi
Mimi Gauthier
LeBien
mgnola@xxxxxxxx
"You got to be a spirit, not a
ghost!" Bullworth
At
01:31 PM 10/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Timothy Olson
wrote:
I know this has come up several times here, and I will
go back through the message base to research what was said. Last week,
I had occasion to try getting Xy3+ running for someone, under Win-2K
Professional on a Thinkpad. Couldn't get past a strictly ** 1/2
** page display, and
even that with squashed aspect ratio and ugly
character display. O.K., that's the display issue, and I recall some
workarounds were discussed here. (Hope I don't have to track down the
UltraVision utility, assuming it is still available somewhere. I know
the developer used to have a
Forum sub-section on Compuserve.) More
distressing than that was the fact that the keyboard was non-functional,
starting with basic cursor movement. Nothing seemed to move anywhere,
even when trying to type plain alpha characters. The only way to get
cursor movement was via
ALT+arrow key, which did move a space in the
indicated direction.
I deactivated just about every line in
STARTUP.INT that might have been relevant, which had no effect. More
than likely, using Xy4DOS would have made no difference. My suspicions
are leaning towards some big KBD file issues. But I didn't have time
to troubleshoot it this trip --
maybe next month when I get back there
again. Any suggestions would be
welcome.
Jordan
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