Re: XYWRITE digest 2810

["William E. Shawcross" wshawcross@xxxxxxxx]

XYWRITE: Xywrite Word Processor for Dos & Windows wrote:

			  XYWRITE Digest 2810


Subject:
Re: XY Under Vista
From:
"Patricia M. Godfrey" 
Date:
Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:58:41 -0500
To:
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To:
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William E. Shawcross wrote:
I have installed XyWrite III Plus, Ver. 3.55, on my new Vista machine
and it appears to work just the same as it does on my XP machine.

Abigail, my smelling salts! Seriously, I am extremely surprised. Would
you consider trying Xy4? You can get everything else from Bry's site,
and the Y2K editor.exe from XyWWWEb. Or I could send you a zipped
installation (now that I have a clean one). IIRC, some people had III
run fine under XP but had problems with 4 until they did some tweaking.

And please, what brand? what BIOS? What VGA card? How much RAM? Which
version of Vista?


I have Xy4 (original distribution, and Signature as well) but never
cared for it -- the WYSIWYG implementation sucks in my humble opion, and
I'd rather rely on my memory of fonts for letterwriting, and for longer
documents I usually import the text into Ventura Publisher 8. So ... I
wish to beg off trying it.

The machine is one I assembled myself. The motherboard is an ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual core 2.66
GHz processor and 2 GB RAM. I just bought it from TigerDirect.com, so
it is whatever version of the BIOS that is currently shipping. The
graphic aadapter is a BFG GeForce 7950 GT with 512 MB memory. I'm
running Vista Home Premium (OEM). Actually, at the moment I'm not
running anything on that machine -- after a week the power supply
appears to have given up the ghost.


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I have installed XyWrite III Plus, Ver. 3.55, on my new Vista machine
and it appears to work just the same as it does on my XP machine.



Thanks so much for the report, Bill. You don't perchance run Tame do you?

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx

No, and I don't have it. I must confess to using Micro$oft Word 2003
for anything really fancy (like 16- or 24-page newsletters with dozens
of pictures, ads, etc.) Even though it is somewhat more opaque than
Ventura Publisher 8, I find it easier to deal with -- at my skill level
with VP it is sometimes hard to make local changes without having them
propagate throughout the document. (I was most comfortable with VP 4.2,
the last version before Corel started in on it.)


Bill Shawcross

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