Re: xywrite Digest V5 #108

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

To those of us concerned about making the jump from XP, that's very
helpful---thanks, Jon.


I suppose that when XyWrite is running in XP Mode, you can exit to DOS
by executing dos on the command line. But I assume that from the
resulting DOS prompt you can't run programs installed in the real
Win7---can you?


Martin

On 11/7/2013 4:36 PM, Jon P wrote:
> Subject: Re: Windows 7, again - tips and tricks
>
>
> Sorry to jump in here so late, but since there was a link a few days
> ago to my attempted (and later discarded) DOSBox installation, let me
> put in another vote for XP Mode, which is what I came around to. I do
> also use TAME for more fonts and flexibility; I can send you my
> (actually Michael Norman's) tweaked and working Tame settings if you
> need them. However, if you were using XY in Windows XP, whatever
> worked before is fine.
>
> XP Mode can be installed in Windows 7. I opened that virtual desktop
> and copied my old working XY folder (from my old XP computer onto a
> flash drive), with XYWWWEB and TAME and all the rest, into what
> virtual XP thinks is its C: drive. If you had it working in XP, it
> should function just as it did.
>
> The only tweaks needed are to let XP Mode communicate with Win7. On
> the XP Mode desktop, put the shortcut to Editor.exe in XP Mode's
> C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu. That also puts a
> shortcut in your Win7 start menu. You can click on it and the XY
> window opens--XP Mode's desktop stays invisible. I can get a full
> window XY just by clicking on the full-window button on the upper
> right to expand it like any other Win7 window. Carl's invaluable
> CLIP.exe works to cut-and-paste in and out of both XP Mode and Win7.
>
> You probably also need to get files out of virtual XYwrite so you can
> email them, etc. In my .kbd file under TABLE=CTRL I put this line:
>
> 46=BXs,a,/,n,v, ,\,\,t,s,c,l,i,e,n,t,\,c,\,x,y,Q2
>
> With that in the .kbd file, hitting CTRL-C (obviously you can change
> the key to whichever you prefer) puts a copy of the file in Win7's
> C:\XY folder, ready for anything you need to do with email, MS Word
> formatting, etc.
>
> The VMWare method may be better if you have older Windows
> installation discs--I have no idea--but this works fine for me.
>
> You might also want to tweak XP Mode to stop asking for security
> updates, etc. Microsoft was pretty lazy when they ported it, so XP
> Mode really does think it's on a standalone computer.
>
> Jon Pareles


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