A member of the list recently sent me a copy of XyWrite II+. My original was modified for the long-dead Hyperion computer, and won't run on a "real" IBM. (I paid $300 for the original back in 1984, and have never regretted it...) When I ran it on my 133 Pentium the screen seemed oddly sluggish. I dug around in my attic and came up with my old ($2500) Zenith very-large-lap top 8088 (with a big 20 Meg hard disk -- wow!) and installed Xywrite II on it. Oops. The screen was just as sluggish. The move to III seems to have involved a major improvement in screen writing. Of all the versions I have, 3.55,6,7 seems to be the speediest overall, though I haven't benchmarked them. Anyone else have a different experience? I'm writing a book of legal/political theory. Each chapter is a separate file, so no file is larger than about 105K. (Eight chapters roughed out so far...) I find it rather satisfying to work on the book with XyWrite II+, III+, IV and XyWin, and on a variety of computers including the old Zenith, a 286 laptop, 486SL laptop, and two Pentium beasts. No translations of formats are necessary, since formatting is done by LaTeX, a pure ASCII system. XyWrite IV is my home base, and I have modified the menus to run the LaTeX formatter and viewers. Needless to say, I have a keyboard file dedicated to LaTeX formatting codes. There are only two things I would like to see in XyWrite: split window editing of the same copy of a single file, and on-screen highlighting of misspelled words. The latter is particularly helpful, given my typing skills. XyWrite's beep is better than nothing, but I like the visual reminder. For those of you who like editors, you might check out WinEdt. It isn't as speedy as XyWrite, but it can be customized a great deal, and is *very* actively supported by its author. Would that XyWrite were similarly supported! Or supported at all, it seems. Myron