Re: U2 version 119

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Judith Davidsen  on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:45:33 -0500

> Changing to 80/25 (buffer height was 300!)
> 1. gives me a nicely readable screen font in Xy;
> 2. any directories I now call can't be cursored all the way to
> the bottom--some can't go beyond files beginning with the letter B.
> 3. If at the highlighted c: \xy4 prompt, I issue dir \bath, and
> call a file from the bath directory that way, after I close the
> file with ST , I jump immediately to the frozen blue page,
> where the cursor is all broken and jiggly but I can move it around.
> 4. If I issue dir \bath from the highlighted c:\, closing the
> file with ST gets me the status-line instruction to install
> Xywwweb.REG. I can still work in the file at this point, but the
> only way to get out of it is ST.

OK. What we have here, I think, are really three fundamental problems:

1) XyWrite thinks your screen is longer than 25 lines. You need to put an
entry in SETTINGS.DFL that says "DF SL=25" i.e. ScreenLength = 25 lines. If
you want 50 lines, then that's a different scenario. But let's get 25 lines
working -- that's what XyWrite was *designed* to display. In a program like
XyWrite, there is no need or sense in having a screen buffer *at all*. Screen
Buffers are for programs that can't page up or scroll up -- whereas XyWrite
*can* do that.

2) Editor's directory is not in the DOS Path. This needs to be fixed. In NT,
you do NOT set the Path in AUTOEXEC.BAT (AUTOEXEC.BAT doesn't even exist; it is
replaced by AUTOEXEC.NT). Instead, go to Control Panel ==> System ==> Advanced
==> click the box at bottom that says Environment Variables ==> in System
Variables highlight the variable "Path" and click "Edit" ==> move your cursor
to the end of the Path line and add a semi-colon (if there isn't one already at
the tail end of the line), then type
"C:\XY4;" ==> click "OK" to close everything. Open a *fresh* DOS box (DOS
Window on the Desktop). Command in DOS:
 SET PATH
It should respond with your DOS Path and show "...;C:\XY4;" at the tail end of
this line. If it doesn't, you screwed up the procedure described above.

Quit & relaunch XyWrite.

3) You are experiencing Out Of Memory. All your wierd behavior is due to OOM.
This needs to be fixed. ZIP up STARTUP.INT and send it to me privately.
Something is being LOADed in there that is gobbling up memory. If there's a
reference to a file like SAVESGT.SGT in INT, ZIP that file up too and mail it
to me.

-----------------------------
Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
-----------------------------