Re: book on Xywrite

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

I didn't have any manuals for the Xy3 I started with maybe
10 years ago, so this book probably helped me some, but
pretty much all I can remember is how immensely annoying and
distracting the "human-interest" style was. And, I have a
very vague recollection that it treated Xywrite as just
another word processor, with no clue about its tricks and
wonderments, but I could be wrong about that.

If you are trying to proslytize, maybe sitting your
colleagues down at your computer and taking them through
some operations would do the trick. It's bound to be more
interesting and more informative than that book.

What's the attachment at the end of your message?

Judith Davidsen
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Frank Heydenrych wrote:
>
> My issue is that I know XyWrite so intimately I could never let go of it. But I have a few colleagues who can see the value but are Windows-based a little nervous.
>
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> Sent:  20 June 2000 15:49
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> Subject:    Re: book on Xywrite
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> At 02:36 AM 6/20/00 -0700, Daniel Say wrote:
> > Scanning www.abebooks.com for something else, one book
> >on XY3 was:
> >
> >   1. ROTHMAN [9]XYWRITE MADE EASIER, REVISED AND EXPANDED FOR
> >  XYWRITE 111 PLUS
> >  , 1988 Soft Cover. VERY GOOD Ex-Library. Book # 37228
> >  Price: US$ 14.99 [10]convert currency
> >  Presented by Queen & Associates, Clearwater, FL, U.S.A.
> >  [11]order options
> >  [12][ec.gif]
> >
>
> I have a copy of this book, along with the original
> (not expanded and revised)
>
> There is much information for a "newby" to XyWrite, i.e. someone
> who has NEVER used a wordprocessor and needs to know what
> "print" means, and "window" and so on, as well as basic
> XyWrite functions. If you are comfortable with ANY wordprocessor,
> however, and you have a XyWrite Manual (or even the help file
> from XyWrite 3) my own opinion is it's a waste of money.
> (I bought the revised edition at a sale 10 years ago for $3.99)
>
> The main problem with the book (IMO) is that it is in the
> children's hold-your-hand method of telling a story about
> grandpa and his first word processor.
>
> e.g. "
> "That's great, now how do I print this file?" he said
>
> "Well," she told him, "first you put your cursor on the
> command line by pressing F-5....."
>
> ***The quotes aren't accurate, but you get the idea....
>
> regards-
> pjd
>
> >
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