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Re: xywrite Digest V4 #119



As Kari wrote, this is a symptom of something wrong. My Xy-Tame under
Parallels' emulation (on the Mac) of an XP machine calls and stores
instantly--way, way under 1 second.


I get the same results when emulating DOS 6.22 and Win 7 (32 bit). Is it
something about your setting for drives in Startup.int? Is Notebad under
your emulated Win98 also slow?





Thank you, Kari. But: I have XY4 inside my VirtualPC machine for Windows 98, with X:\ as the shared folder. I start files in XY4. Calling files out of X:\ is pretty quick, a few seconds, but that's not what I do. XY4 is where they originate. Running ne X:\testfile takes 15-20 seconds--a very long time in our computer universe--but does create the file. ST also takes 15-30 seconds, which is annoying but not a deal-breaker. However, SAving, WrdCount and other operations on a file in X:\--which I use constantly--seem to crash Virtual PC. I haven't tried the CLIP.EXE you recommended. I do like the additional windows in VirtualPC. But limitations and all, DOSBox is more convenient. Jon Pareles --- On Wed, 12/5/12, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote: > > From: "Kari Eveli" > Subject: Re: Better than DOSBox, etc. > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:41:06 +0200 > > Jon wrote: I tried Virtual PC 2007 first, with both Win98 > and DOS 6.22. If XY is on the virtual drive, within the > virtual machine, it runs smoothly, multiple windows and > all. But try to run Editor from the Shared Folder, and > Virtual PC just sits there--thinking or crashing, I'm not > sure. > > The lesson, do not put Xy outside of the virtual machine, > instead call your file from outside, e.g. if X: is your > shared folder, "call X:myfile.xy". That should work. Or you > could put "BX X:" in your startup.int and all work files > appear in the shared folder, just issue a "DIR" and "call > myfile.xy". > > As for clipboard, any Windows editor can open a shared > folder file (EditPad lite even refreshes it automatically!) > or you could place it in the clipboard by issuing "CLIP > filename.txt" from a batch file (by using Clip.exe by David > Navarro, look for clip.exe, clip.txt in: http://tachyon.zapto.org/binaries/). > > Best regards, > > Kari Eveli > LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) > lexitec@xxxxxxxx