Re: W2K display settings

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Kari, I'll try some of these suggestions. However, since Xy4
under Win7-64/XP doesn't have any problems displaying the host
folder, why should XyWrite? Also, I can call any file from the host
folder I want: I just can't display it in a XyWrite directory.
Doesn't that sound like a problem in VB? I'll know more once I've
tried out Hyper-V and some of the other alternatives.


At 17/01/2014 07:14, you wrote:
> Great (as regards the display) !
>
> The best method is to use W2K DOS programs in the W2K realm, and to
> just copy files from guest system to host system. If you want to
> cross the border, there will be problems, because Xy is not aware of
> modern file systems. On the other hand, doing some work across
> borders with older W2K Windows programs is quite possible. You could
> try to make a folder with files that conform strictly to the DOS
> file naming conventions (8 chrs filename + 3 extension). That way I
> could issue the following commands with success:
>
> x = change to host shared folder X
> dir
> cd FILES
> dir
> etc.
> But Xy did not see long filenames or subfolders with long names.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> 16.1.2014 18:41, Bill Troop wrote:
> > OK. Win2K is improved beyond all recognition. Apparently, in my
> > most-used XP install (from a pre-existing image), an earlier
> > edition of Guest Additions had been installed - - that is now
> > updated. But it hadn't been installed in my fresh installs of XP;
> > now that it has, they seem to be viable. Win2K looks really great.
> > It is amazing how the additions make the pointer tenable.
> >
> >
> > HOWEVER, bafflingly, in both Win2K and all XP instances, I still
> > cannot XyWrite to access the drive letter assigned to the host hard
> > drive. If I exit to DOS from XyWrite, and type 'dir S:' 'dir e:' or
> > whatever, the directory comes through fine. It is only in XyWrite
> > itself that I get this baffling 'file not found' message.
> >
> >
> > In addition the Jumbo registry doesn't seem to want to install on
> > Win2K. Maybe it's just a path problem? That I don't know how to fix?