Re: Xy III+, XyWin, and Win95 -Reply

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxxxx>]

From the other side of the mountain, a note about
sister NB (Nota bene) that might be relevant to
XY and Win95.

What about the information at the Linux sites on
running DOS, Win95 and other systems together?
X-within-URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95

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From owner-notabene@xxxxxxxx Tue Oct 22 06:40:54 1996
Date:     Tue, 22 Oct 1996 05:06:04 -0400
Reply-To: Nota Bene List 
Sender: Nota Bene List 
From: James Ernest 
Subject:   Win95 pif settings
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE 

From: rpenti@xxxxxxxx
To: NOTABENE@xxxxxxxx; James, Ernest
Subject: NB and Win95: video and memory
Date: Monday, October 21, 1996 1:56PM

> James Ernest had a post about NB PIF settings
> under WIN95 from last June; would your advice be any different now
> James?

For Rick and anyone else who is interested: my Win95
pif settings are a bit different from what I had back in
June--not necessarily intentionally in every case, and at
any rate there=94s no reason to think mine are the best one
can do; but they do work just fine for me on this machine.

Program:
Cmd line: c:\nb4\nb.com /b
 (I wasn't aware of the VOO (?) setting )
Working: c:\j
Batch file: c:\nb4\xpl\nbpath.bat
 (I use this to set a system path that includes my
 nb4 subdir, my xpl dir, and a couple of others)
Win95 "Shortcut" key: Ctrl + Alt + N
 (I find the shortcut keys very helpful: I have one
 for each pgm I use regularly. Since these shortcuts
 keys are defined in shortcuts (icons) that are stored
 in a file (folder) under my Start Menu directory, each one
 works whether the associated pgm has been launched
 in the current session or not. This is not the case if you
 define your shortcut keys in icons on your Desktop.
 That is why I don=94t use the Desktop. Instead I use my
 "Virtual Desktop" folder, which is a subdir of my Start
 Menu directory. A shortcut to this Virtual Desktop
 folder is in the Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder, and
 it has its own shortcut key. So from within a N.B. full-
 screen session, I can use hotkeys to move to any
 of the several applications for which a hotkey is
 defined; and if I want to switch to a program for
 which no hot key is defined, I hit the hotkey for my
 Virtual Desktop.)
Run: Normal window
Close on exit: checked

Font:
Both types
10x18
 (I=94m not advocating either of these; I don=94t much care
 about them since I always work full-screen except to
 copy/paste using the Win clipboard.)

Memory:
Everything is Auto
Protected is checked
Uses HMA is not checked

Screen:
Full-screen  Default
Window: both boxes checked
Performance: neither box checked

Misc:
Allow screen saver is checked
QuickEdit is checked; Exclusive mode is not
Always suspend is not checked
 (I like to switch out to other applications
  while a large MS file is being spell-checked)
Warn if active is checked
Fast pasting is checked
All the Win shortcut keys except Ctrl-Esc are checked

Concluding disclaimer: I don=94t even know what all
of these settings mean, so don=94t take this as expert
advice. They work for me. And, by the way, I always
use Lingua and never use Ctrl-Alt-Esc to clear screen
fonts before switching programs. The Lingua fonts
disappear and reappear without a hitch.

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James D. Ernest
Ph.D. cand., Boston College; Academic editor, Hendrickson Publ.