RE: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Philip White pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

What’s wrong? Are they simply unresponsive to the needs of their customers, or is they consider this to be just a request from an esoteric few?
 
If the latter is the case, perhaps you (ALL) should just extoll the virtues of XPL in the NB on-line forums. Perhaps creating an audience might cause them to consider it more seriously…
 


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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx  on behalf of Paul Breeze 

Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:31:54 PM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite
 



Philip



The problem with 32 bit Nota Bene is that is does not support XPL

routines.  The last 16 bit version, NB9, is the best for that, though

not perfect.  Use of the command line is a bit dodgy too, in my

experience.  However from what I understand, 32 bit NB would be capable

of backwards compatibility, with some modification.  As I noted in my

post for Harry, I believe such a stripped back version exists already

within NB.



I have in the past tried to persuade NB to release this, or something

similar to us but time (at NB to devote to the project) has always

seemed the stumbling block.  Personally I would be happy with a stripped

down version of NB that is capable of running all the XPL routines we

like.  However that would require the acquiescence of NB and I am not

sure if the company would be cooperative.  If it does not have

resources, would it be interested in letting us create a working version

to our liking?  We can only ask.



Best wishes



Paul







On 19/04/2018 17:11, Philip White wrote:

If Nota Bene does everything you need on a modern OS platform and has

all the editing capabilities that XyWrite did/does, why do we need to

reinvent the wheel?



If there is some issue that Nota Bene has missed the boat on, let’s

remedy that or port XyWrite out of the past into the present. What does

EVERYONE think?





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*From:* xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx  on

behalf of Harry Binswanger 

*Sent:* Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:50:28 AM

*To:* xywrite@xxxxxxxx

*Subject:* Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite



Harry, I don't know if you have forgotten or are just choosing to ignore

the discussions you and I had with Steve at NB a couple of years ago on

just this subject.



Paul,



That was on my mind, but I didn't refer to it directly. And I didn't

recall that Steve said that they had a version of NB 10 that was what we

wanted. I'm going back to re-read that exchange now.



Regards,

Harry