Re: XyW on a T43 with XP Pro

["Phillip Alder" phillipalder@xxxxxxxx]

I tried double-clicking the icon; still nothing.

And by load, I mean install.

And I have reproduced by sub-directory structure, but I will give that
another look -- thank you.

Phillip Alder




----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: XyW on a T43 with XP Pro


> Phillip Alder wrote:
> > Dear Patricia,
> >
> > Nothing happens when I do run c:\xw\xw.exe.
>
> How about when you double-click on the .exe file (or a shortcut
> pointing to it) from Windows Explorer?
> >
> > And when I try to load the program in safe mode
> By "load" do you mean install or run? Don't bother trying to install.
> Copy your working directory, being sure to re-create the same
> directory structure.
>
> A while back, I was working on a Xywin setup that would run off my
> flash drive. I.e., it mimicked Carl's Portable setup for Xy 4. Never
> got it finished, and now I've forgotten where I was, but if I can get
> a few minutes, I will tackle it again.
>
> N.B. I did manage to run that on a laptop (a Dell!) at the library.
> Got a lot of errors, because it was referencing files in the wrong
> location, the portable setup not being done, but it loaded and was
> able to open a file.
>
> This business about space on the drive is apparently endemic to older
> apps. dBase 5 for DOS pulled that one on me the other day: said there
> wasn't space on the drive to do something. The drive (one whole second
> physical hard drive, not just a logical drive on a partition) is 6 G,
> of which only about 1 is in use. Programs of that vintage apparently
> cannot believe in gigabyte drives.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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