Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from "Martin J. Osborne" 
on Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:18:54 -0400

> Is it possible to run XyWrite successfully on W2000

Absolutely. Slick as a firepole. W2K is a MUCH better platform for
XyWrite than W98 -- you'd be nuts to downgrade. Try commenting out
default KS in SETTINGS.DFL (put a semi-colon in front of ";df
ks=#,#") -- NT always balked at that setting. Is it fast when run
VGA (Alt-Enter) fullscreen?

If you shell to DOS (dos/nv), can you DIR the root (dir \) and
other dirs? Are the "some" files that you're trying to list in a
directory filenamed in 8.3 convention, or do they have long
filenames? XyWrite can't see the latter, except with assistance
(e.g. from U2 frame DIR2, which can also CA2 any of those
long filenames -- and SA2, DEL2, whatever).

In general, windowed DOS boxes are much slower than VGA. How slow is
"slow"? How much memory is available to the session (do a MEM /C)?

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Robert Holmgren
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