RE: XP--screen length--startup.int

["Marc O'Connor" marc@xxxxxxxx]

One thing to try is to start up the DOS window and enter the following
command:
Mode con lines=25 

It should form a more 'normal' looking window.
I have this command in a batch file for running XY3.57 under XP.

Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Davidsen
Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2003 8:04 a.m.
To: xylist
Subject: XP--screen length--startup.int

In preparation for buying a new computer, I'd been saving a whole ton of
exchanges on the issue of XY screenlength in a DOS box and, as I recall,
attendant exhanges about loading startup.int.

Then the new computer arrived and, in the rush of it all, I managed to
misplace and/or destroy a whole mess of mail...Just spent 3 hours
searching, on the off chance, but no.

So...

XyDos 4.018
XP Home ed.
Dell Dimension 4600
Dell flat-panel monitor

On each boot, Xy in the box opens in about the top 40% of the screen.

Under Advanced/Preferences, I can expand it to full screen using "screen
hardware settings" but along the painfully long route I get the message:
   "Settings.dfl exists but is not loaded. The menus cannot locate it
if it has been renamed." [It has not been renamed.]

A little further along, another message:
   "For these settings to take effect the next time you start
Xywrite, you must add this statement to the startup file: BC Load
96,72settings.dfl"

What the settings line in my startup.int says is:
  BX LOAD C:\XY4\SETTINGS.DFLQ2 FF ;*;

I am loathe to change anything on the settings line of startup without
some advice.

Thanks in advance
Judith Davidsen