Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks---I'll try that. (On a first try, I can't see how to to it, but it must
be there somewhere in the W2000 help system....)
(I guess you must know, but in case not, automatic substitution returned in
XyWrite IV---I agree it is absolutely essential...)

mike shupp wrote:

> XyWrite probably is having problems with a FAT-32 (either VFAT or
> NTFS) file system. You might set up a small FAT-16 playpen (any
> disk partition of under 1/2 GByte will be formatted this way by
> Windows 98 automatically, and if it isn't automatic under W2000
> you should be able to specify it). Keep your XyWrite here and it
> ought to be able to work with files and directories on this
> partition.
>
> Ditto for some games and Win-3.1 applications. Of course, you
> could use a non-VFAT file system on a larger partition, but you'd
> be wasting a huge amount of disk space.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
> Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: XyWrite & Windows 2000
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:18:54 -0400
>
> My apologies if this question has been asked and answered before (I just
> joined
> the list):
>
> I am trying to use XyWrite on a (new) computer with Windows 2000 on it. So
> far
> I have encounterd two problems:
>  - when running XyWrite in a window, it runs very slowly: pressing a key
> and
> holding it down results in a delayed response, and programs seem to run very
> slowly.
>  - the dir command doesn't work for directories other than the default
> directory
> (dir \xxx reports that \xxx has no files, even if it has some)
>
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