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RE: Follett followed

Attached are files containing solutions to installing XyWrite on various PC
operating systems.

 ≪412INSTA.DOC≫ ≪4017INST.DOC≫


George Buschman
Technical Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	N. Sivin [SMTP:nsivin@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:37 AM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Follett followed
>
> Michael Norman asks "Is there a way to pull from the
> XyArchives only those posts that will help me install XyDos4
> on a new machine with W98?" I would suggest searching for
> "Win98" and variants thereof. I don't think there has been
> much.
> As a non-user of Win98, I would suggest the following
> two steps:
>
> 1. Check a good, comprehensive book on Win98 about the
> principles of installing DOS programs. The manual that comes
> with the OS, I am sure, will not qualify.
>
> 2. Install in DOS mode (not in a DOS window), making sure
> that
> it does not load a batch file when booting. If necessary,
> rename your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS temporarily. XY
> tends to balk if
> any TSR is running, and if peripheral hardware (e.g.,
> CD-ROM) is installed. Normally DOS mode does not install
> any but rudimentary hardware.
>
> As for Follett, what I have found to be the best of the more
> advanced books is Joseph Williams' _Style: Toward Clarity
> and Grace._ It is a considerable improvement in three
> respects:
>
> It concentrates on analyzing writing from the reader's, not
> the writer's, point of view. Most people learning to do
> serious writing (e.g., graduate students beginning
> dissertations) have no idea of the difference. Williams
> approaches it in a sophisticated way.
>
> The book goes beyond words and sentence structure to take up
> how to shape a paragraph, and again is not at all
> simple-minded about it.
>
> It has a good chapter on spurious rules of diction and
> grammar. It points out that many "errors" have actually been
> standard usage of first-rate authors, sometimes for
> centuries, or are based on fallacious reasoning. This helped
> me to narrow down in teaching to the real errors. I dislike
> "hopefully" for "I hope," but Williams convinced me that I
> can't impose this preference on others.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Nathan Sivin
> History and Sociology of Science
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
> (215) 898-7454
> nsivin@xxxxxxxx
> 
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