Re: XyWrite's automatic backup command

[Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Carl. I found the command on another laptop's startup.int. It
was just a line, 

BX y:,w: XC

where, in this case, y: is my vDos alias for my home drive, and w: is a
network drive. I am assuming that it expects to see the same path
structure on the network drive as on the home drive? 

I like it because it's so simple. 

That newer Dell XPS LXetc has developed some annoying problems so I am
back to an older one, and I find that I was not using this
command. Therefore, my locked file problem is not on the network drive.
I'll query this in a separate email. 


At 12/16/2021 06:05 PM, you wrote:
> Reply to note from Bill Troop
> <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Thu, 16 Dec 2021
> 14:44:36 +0000
>
> Bill,
>
> > I have forgotten how to work with the XyWrite command that
> saves
> > your file to two locations when you invoke save.
>
> Are you maybe thinking of the Drive command, which allows you to
> specify the current drive and a backup drive? From XY4.HLP:
>
> - - - - - 
> d:[,d1:]
> Drive command
>
> Sets the default drive (d is the letter of the drive you are
> specifying as the default drive) and, optionally, the save
> drive (d1 is the letter of the save drive).  The save drive is
> where XyWrite stores a backup copy of your file and updates
> it every time you store or save that file.  When you omit a
> drive (d) in other commands, XyWrite uses the default drive.
> - - - - - 
>
> I like Harry's keyboard-file solution better since it allows you to
> direct the backup save to a particular subdirectory of the backup
> drive. With the native drive command, your file will be saved to the
> active directory of drive d1:, whatever that happens to be.
>
> If you're running Xy4-DOS + the Jumbo U2 (release 2019-03-03 or
> later),
> there is a command called SAA (extended SAve), which SAves your file
> in
> the normal way and, optionally, copies it to any number of
> additional
> locations:
>
> SAA [d:\path1[ d:\path2 [d:\path3 ... ]]]<Helpkey>
>
> You can assign the string of d:\paths to user variable "SAA_to"
> in
> XYWWWEB.REG:
>
> SAA_to=d:\path1 d:\path2 d:\path3
>
> which allows you to issue the simple command SAA<Helpkey>.
>
> SAA is nice because the backup copies are saved in the background --
> so
> that specifying a whole string of locations won't hold up your
> editing
> in XyWrite.
>
> To run SAA, AI3.EXE and COPIES.A3X must be present in the directory
> with Editor.exe. These files part of U2EXTRAS.ZIP:
>
> http://xywrite.org/xywwweb/U2EXTRAS.ZIP
>
> -- 
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxxxx