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I'm afraid I've done something
very stupid. (Background: I run Xywrite 3.56 on an ME, a Dell Dimensions
4100, which I want to replace with a new computer. (I came to this list a
while ago asking advice on new computers, and you were all very
helpful, but some life/job events have delayed me from making a
purchase until now.)
Anyway, in a fit of
late-night curiosity, I started snooping around on the C: directory
and called up EDITOR.EXE. What seemed like merely a page's worth
of symbols came up, nothing like the roughly 181,000 bits that were
listed on the directory. If I remember correctly, I wasn't able to
store it by ST or SA, and had to abort it. After that, instead of the
directory reading EDITOR.EXE, it read EDITOR (with just a few thousand
bits) and EDITOR.BAK, which had the original 181,000 bits. So apparently I
made EDITOR.EXE into a back-up.
Now I am unable to call up
Xywrite from the desktop, and I get this message:
"Unload drivers or memory-resident
programs that use conventional memory, or increase the value for Minimum
Conventional Memory in the program's Memory property sheet."
I hit "OK" and the
message disappears. I've no idea what it means, or how to do what it
advises. As you can see, I don't know my way around a computer or C:
directories, and I'm terribly afraid that I've lost Xywrite.
Does my computer have the memory to restore
EDITOR.EXE to its original status? And how to do it if I now can't get
into Xywrite or DOS at all?
I did put my Xywrite files on a
flashdrive about a week ago. Is it possible to install Xy to the current
computer or to a new one from the flashdrive?
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