Re: XyWrite installation and CD-ROM drives

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the fax, Rene!

TTG's instructions in "Installing XyWrite for Windows (4.11 or 4.12) on
Windows 95" aren't particularly convoluted. They're just long, as they
proceed on the assumption that the reader may know even less about Win95
than I do (or think I do). This is what they appear to boil down to:

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Stage One:

Create a temporary directory for XyWin on your hard drive. Copy everything
onto it from the diskettes--but do this in reverse order (diskette 4, then
3, then 2, then 1); at least once you will be asked if you want to write
over a file, and should answer YES.

(Or presumably you could copy them in the order 1 then 2 then 3 then 4,
answering NO. Strangely, TTG say you should do this first stage in MS-DOS
mode.)

Leave Windows with the option of restarting the computer. Jab F8 as soon
as you see "Starting Windows 95". (Mysteriously, TTG say "you must turn
off the computer completely.")

Stage Two:

Choose "Step-by-step confirmation". Answer yes to every question before
you're asked about AUTOEXEC. To the question of whether to load AUTOEXEC,
answer NO. Thereafter: YES, load Windows; NO, don't load all Windows
drivers (because among them is the troublesome CD-ROM driver). If you're
asked other questions and don't know which is the better answer, choose NO.

You'll be told that you're in Safe Mode. Press OK to proceed.

>From the Start menu, choose Run. If you've plonked everything in C:\XW,
then type C:\XW\INSTALL.

And now comes the amusing bit. Verbatim:

  The install procedure should go smoothly. If you receive
  a "Protection Violation" message, just click OK until the
  box goes away. Go to RUN again and try to install. You
  may have to try this several times before you are
  successful.

When you've succeeded, you can delete the temporary directory and its
contents.

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TTG then forgets that people may not realize "Safe" means "lobotomized";
Stage Three would be to get out of "Safe" Windows and back into
all-singing, all-dancing high-risk Windows.
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Peter Evans