Re: Edward Mendelson on Tamedos

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

All true. But the other side of things is that one has nothing to lose. Except time.

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On May 31, 2011, at 12:11 PM, "M.W. Poirier"  wrote:

>
> It is true that Tame can be quite useful, but it has been the
> experience of some of us that not all versions of the programme
> work well, and what is worse is the fact that the author of
> the programme does not describe the installation process well,
> and is not very helpful when it comes to giving advice when
> things go wrong. If you can stand that, then by all means try
> Tame. When it works well, it works very well, ...and don't
> update a working version when a new version comes out, because
> you may be ruining an excellent setup and replacing it with one
> that is less than desirable.
>
> Others may have had a different experience with Tame, but that
> has been my experience, and I have to say that I have given up
> on Tame because I cannot get back to my original set up.
>
> Mr. Mendelson is clearly more knowledgeable in setting up Tame
> than I.
>
> M. W. Poirier
>
>
>
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> On Tue, 31 May 2011, Avrom Fischer wrote:
>
>> Edward Mendelson on his website at
> Http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/tamewp.htmlhttp://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/tamewp.html states:
>>
>> This is the only third-party software that I recommend without
> reservation to all users of WPDOS under Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, or
> Windows 7. A 30-day free trial version is available for download, and
> you may prefer to experiment with the program before buying it. After
> installing Tame under Windows XP, I no longer have any reason to run
> WPDOS under Windows 98. (Tame 5.0 and later versions do not run under
> Windows 95, 98, or Me.)
>>
>> Are his comments equally relevant to users of Xywrite in windows 7, 32
> bit. Is there any reason not to use it,
>>
>> Avrom Fischer
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