Re: Win95 settings

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Myron Gochnauer wrote:
>
> Does anyone have recommendations about Win95 settings for
> XyDOS 4.017 run either full-screen or in a window?
>
> The default Win95 settings for memory make it impossible to use
> the UK dictionary (which is larger than the US dictionary).
>
> The following Win95 settings allow use of the UK dictionary:
>
> Conventional memory: Auto, protected; Initial environment 2048
> EMS: 4096
> XMS: auto; use HMA
> MS-DOS Protected memory (DPMI): auto
>
> I then load XyWrite with the command line: editor %1 /e 4096
>
> Is there a better way? I seem to recall that XyWrite can only use
> 4megs of expanded memory (---does that help account for the file-
> size limit??)
>

Myron,

Well I will step in bravely in the apparent absence these past few weeks
of all the Wise Persons save for Tim and Nathan. And if they're here
today I expect they'll have a definitive answer for you. Until then:

I'm really uncertain that you need any of that stuff, but then again
maybe you do. Tell me this: do you run XyWrite 4.017 from a DOS Window?
(I don't) or do you work from the desktop and simply click on "my
computer," and then c:\xy4\editor? Or, do you use a "shortcut to editor"
icon on your desktop?

If the former, try the latter. If the latter, try running XyWrite in DOS
mode, and create separate autoexec.bat and config.sys files for that
purpose.

Another question: do you always need to have the dictionary loaded? You
might set things up so that you only load it when you need to
spellcheck--but maybe that's not possible for what you need to do.

Cheers!

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
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