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Re: Opera and Xywrite Revealed



I would be most interested in obtaining a copy of Tyson's book in XyWrite.

Please drop me an email.

--Bob Kubie

At 02:37 PM 2/14/00 -0800, you wrote:
> From Morris Krok
> Valentine's Day February 14th 2000.
>
> essence@iafrica.com
>
> I have been using XyWrite version 3 since 1988 when I was fortunate to
> obtain Herbert Tyson's XyWrite Revealed. This book I consider a
> masterpiece which does full justice to the logical and fascinating
> XyWrite program. Although I have in my possession XyWin, NB for Dos and
> NB for Windows, for initial data capturing I use Xy dos 3.
>
> In order to understand the XPL language I copied virtually every program
> contained in Tyson's book into my computer. The short programs that I
> have been able to write has enabled me to write in shortform without
> using the spacebar and enter key, and by pressing one key it expands all
> the shortforms, capitalizes the first letter of sentence and paragraph,
> automatically puts spaces after all the punctuation marks and indent were
> necessary.
>
> In addition to rewriting of a number of books I have written, I use
> these programs to edit catalogs, condense them where need be, change
> their codes and format. Also to convert MS Word RTF files into plain text.
>
> I am in correspondence with Herbert Tyson and in the process of
> obtaining his permission to reprint XyWrite Revealed. Please e-mail me if
> anyone would be interested in obtaining his book.
>
> Herbert Tyson has just produced Country style songs on a CD - "At the
> Heart of it All" which by credit card is available through Amazon.Com but
> by check can be purchased direct from him. His e-mail is
> herb@herbtyson.com and his website
> www.herbtyson.com.
>
> At the moment I am anxious to know how do configure the Opera e-mail and
> web browser to be able to locate the remote web server. This is the
> message what comes up when I load it. Recently I downloaded the trial version.
>
>  With regards,
>
>  Morris Krok