Re: I want to go geek .. and VPC?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "mhchoate" 
on Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:27:52 -0500


> I just want to freeze a working XyWrite environment, and not have to worry
> about it again! That may not be possible, but I think it should be.

Why don't you create a CD with a XyWrite installation on it that
is "portable", i.e. that loads without any hard-coded
drive:\path dependencies? It ought to work on any machine,
anywhere. You should definitely acquire some of Siebert's
pseudo-"FullScreen" window fonts, so that, in the event the
machine you work on doesn't support true FullScreen, you'll have
a very close approximation of it. Frankly, I can't see why the
absence of FullScreen would in any way interfere with your
Tuesday deadline...

What I'm talking about ought to be very close to the BartPE
plugin that I intend to create. Will it be possible, though, to
create a plugin that will work for everybody? The problem is
the infinite variety of individual installations (keyboards,
DFLs, etc etc). If everybody was already portable, it would be
a piece of cake. And EVERYBODY *should* already be portable!
Carl and I have been portable for years. We can take our
installations anywhere, to any machine, and if the machine has a
DOS subsystem, our installations will load out of the box.

The BartPE plugin will be a model of portability, which others
might wish to adapt to their systems.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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