Re: Xy + Win98--any hope?

[tgieske grnskl@xxxxxxxx]

Well, I'm no expert, but I'd been running Xywrite for Windows on my 4086. I
reinstalled it when I got the Pentium II and Windows 98 and it seems to
work even a little better than before. You can pick things up out of Eudora
or paste them onto a Eudora message. And you can pick things up that you've
downloaded from the Internet into Temp or even directly into Docs. Plus,
the windows function seems to work a little better, although I still find
it necessary to reset the file margins so they don't run down the middle of
the window. And I found I was able to make the screen font times roman
instead of courier, which makes one's sentences a bit less inelegant. It
still crashes when I try to switch back to my HP printer after transmitting
a fax on Trio.
Why would you want to run your Xywrite program in DOS?

Tony G.









At 04:20 PM 2/6/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello to all. I'm new to the list, but not to XyWrite, which I've loved
>for 10+ years.
>
>My question has doubtless been asked and answered before, possibly several
>times, and if someone will give me directions to searching the archive,
>I'll go away and look on my own.
>
>Can Xy 4 (DOS) be used on a fast machine with Win 98?
>
>Last fall I bought a Pentium II 333 mhz PC (with the MS "natural" keyboard
>and Win98 preinstalled). Because I had heard good things about
>WordPerfect, and also wanted to try out Dragon Naturally Speaking (which
>Corel was bundling with WP), I bought it too.  I expect to continue using
>the voice recognition software despite its present limitations, and it
>comes with its own simple text editor. But I grow increasingly dismayed
>by the awkwardness of WP after XyWrite.
>
>If anyone out there knows how to get XY4 to run reasonably contentedly on a
>PC like mine, I'd love to hear about it. I might even be willing to settle
>for XyWin (which I have but of course find inferior.) I'm a writer but
>almost never need anything in the DTP line beyond the simplest formatting,
>and file all my pieces by email. I want to go back to using the program
>because it really is the best one for writers.
>
>Piteously,
>
>Tammy Powledge
>
>
>
>
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