Time to up-grade.

[John K Pearce jkp@xxxxxxxx]

I have found happiness with 3.55 for so many years. Big characters on my
21 inch screen. Simple commands. Ahhh...  Three books and thousands of
hours of work done. Like a marriage. True, I have to break up big
files. But it is so fast (which is an absurd consideration with a 200mghz
Pentium Pro).

Still, maybe I ought to try fooling around with XyWrite for DOS 4. I see
the manuals on my shelf...but doubt I still have the disks. Dear Miss
Lonelyheart, what should I do? I run NT 4.0, which supports separate DOS
windows nicely. Is the Windows version of 4.0 different from the DOS
version. I remember the version I tried out spread lines out on the
page--adjustable with the defaults I suppose. WYSIWYG is approximated
well enough with 3.55. I check text, the give a font command. (Pt 3
gives me Times Roman proportional on all HP printers--but not on NEC
laser printer.)

Has 4 been up-graded and debugged? Does the Technology Group still
survive? What are they up to?  The only limitation with NT 4.0 is that
all screen writes must go through the operating system. Hence, a
wonderful utility that grabbed phone numbers off the screen and dialed
them would not work with NT. Another utility gave me a super simple,
easy to read, font--but used direct writes to the screen.

I use NT for stability and security--you
must log on correctly to get into the OS at all.
(I once tried to install OS2 Warp....sigh....)

Advice appreciated...

John Pearce MD, Cambridge MASS and Martha's Vineyard.