Re: Xywrite speller and thesaurus are missing after move to Win 10

[Lynn Brenner <lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you!! You've helped me successfully resolve the problem, although in an even more basic way than you advised.

When you suggested changing the name of the C:vDosPlus=Xy folder to C:\vDosXY, I realized that I already have a C:\vDosXY folder available from my Win 7 computer. I'm always nervous about following programming instructions that involve changing anything in a startup.int file -- I'm essentially a very bright second-grader when it comes to programming language -- so I opted for the simplest way to return to a short file name:

I substituted my old vDosXY folder and XY directory for vDosPlus-XY. 

It worked perfectly: I have Speller and Thesaurus again. Of course, I have an older iteration of vDosXY -- but that's okay. Eventually, I'll get around to monkeying with renaming the vDosPlus Xy folder. For now, I've got what I need.

Lynn

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 8:41 PM Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Possibly because you are using long filenames (not 8.3 filenames) in your startup.int file. Wherever you have C:\vDosPlus-Xy, replace it with

C:\VDOSPL~1

which is what you see as the name of the folder in the screen shot of the XyWrite directory.

Better still, change the name of the C:\vDosPlus-Xy folder to something that has only eight characters or fewer (no spaces), for example:

C:\vDosXY

and then change all references to the folder in your startup.int.

vDosPlus understands long filenames, but XyWrite does not, so it can never find anything in a path that includes “vDosPlus-Xy” or anything similar