Re: Xy-Dos and Windoze

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

:   I don't think you can use alt-tab when you've shelled :  out
to DOS. You're basically disconnected from Windows.

Is it possible that you're trying to run xyWrite from the Windows
DOS command line and not from a .pif? I taskswitch between
xyWrite 3 and other DOS apps--including another gui--under
Windows 3.11 routinely. All you have to do is leave the Alt+Tab
box blank on the xy.pif Advanced Options page. Very
straightforward. I shell out from xyW command line with "do"
commands regularly under Windows, and sometimes when I quit xyW
I'm surprised to find
Windows waiting: I'd forgotten it was there. xyWrite performance
is absolutely normal. Whether that is true as well of xyDos 4
someone else will have to say.

:   For the same reason, you can't :  cut and paste to and from
Windows.

To cut and paste, xyWrite must be in "windowed" mode, not
full-screen, so also leave the .pif Advanced Options Alt+Enter
box blank in order to toggle.
There's a trick to it beyond that that I can't remember at the
moment, will post when I have time to figure it out again. Like
Chet, I prefer to "sad" the section of text or, going the other
direction, make an independent file of what's on the clipboard
and merge it into xyW. --annie

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