Re: xywrite Digest V4 #119

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you, Kari.

But:

I have XY4 inside my VirtualPC machine for Windows 98, with X:\ as the shared folder.

I start files in XY4. Calling files out of X:\ is pretty quick, a few seconds, but that's not what I
do. XY4 is where they originate.

Running ne X:\testfile takes 15-20 seconds--a very long time in our computer universe--but does
create the file. ST also takes 15-30 seconds, which is annoying but not a deal-breaker. However,
SAving, WrdCount and other operations on a file in X:\--which I use constantly--seem to crash
Virtual PC.

I haven't tried the CLIP.EXE you recommended.

I do like the additional windows in VirtualPC. But limitations and all, DOSBox is more convenient.

Jon Pareles

--- On Wed, 12/5/12, FreeLists Mailing List Manager  wrote:

>
> From: "Kari Eveli" 
> Subject: Re: Better than DOSBox, etc.
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:41:06 +0200
>
> Jon wrote: I tried Virtual PC 2007 first, with both Win98
> and DOS 6.22. If XY is on the virtual drive, within the
> virtual machine, it runs smoothly, multiple windows and
> all.  But try to run Editor from the Shared Folder, and
> Virtual PC just sits there--thinking or crashing, I'm not
> sure.
>
> The lesson, do not put Xy outside of the virtual machine,
> instead call your file from outside, e.g. if X: is your
> shared folder, "call X:myfile.xy". That should work. Or you
> could put "BX X:" in your startup.int and all work files
> appear in the shared folder, just issue a "DIR" and "call
> myfile.xy".
>
> As for clipboard, any Windows editor can open a shared
> folder file (EditPad lite even refreshes it automatically!)
> or you could place it in the clipboard by issuing "CLIP
> filename.txt" from a batch file (by using Clip.exe by David
> Navarro, look for clip.exe, clip.txt in: http://tachyon.zapto.org/binaries/).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx