cursor won't move; special characters from employer's .kbd file don't appear

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I use XyWrite on a pc at home, as well as on a pc at the office.  XyWrite runs fine on both pcs, however, on the laptop it has problems.



All three machines are running on MS XP professional.  The pc at home is a Dell Dimension 8100.  The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8000+ (8100, 8200 or 8300--I don't recall, offhand); and all three machines use the same copy of XyWrite III+.  



Here are the problems: 



1.  Cursor won't move.   On the laptop, whey XyWrite fills the screen, i.e., it is operating as a DOS program, the cursor will not move, even though text can otherwise be entered.  Literally, as I enter text, the blinking cursor will stay at the beginning of the fourth line, whether text is there or not, and just blink.  The cursor WILL move on the command line ruler as I enter text, but not in the text body, below.    However, if I use  to reduce XyWrite into an MS Window, which is a small window that fills about 1/5 of the screen, then the cursor will move as it should.



2. Special company kbd. file doesn't show. A programmer who has long since left the company developed a special keyboard file, that uses special characters to reflect typecodes, special spaces, paragraph and section signs, leaders, etc.   Many of these characters are generated by using the alt key in combination with a regular keyboard key, others are generated by just using the shift key with a letter, and some are generated by using the number keypad minus sign key in combination with a letter key.  Normally, the special company keyboard fonts will show when XyWrite fills the screen; however, when XyWrite is put into a "Windows" window with , the alternate IBM fonts will appear.  (E.g. our special .kbd file will generate a paragraph sign with P.  That sign will appear when XyWrite is in "DOS" mode (filling the entire screen); however, in MS Windows mode, where th!
 e window is  reduced in size, a backwards "capitol F" appears.  Similarly, in DOS mode R generates an "n" that appears as a small cap "N" with a horizontal line above the "N."  However, in Windows mode, the character appears as an upside down backwards capitol "F".)  My problem is that I cannot get the special company keyboard characters to appear on my laptop whether or not I have XyWrite in DOS mode, filling the screen.  Although I will make sure that the XY3 directory is not corrupted and does, in fact, have all of the special .kbd files and that there startup.int files on my pc and laptop are identical, does anyone have any idea as to how I can get the special .kbd fonts to appear?







//Avi

Avram Sacks

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