Re: xywrite I

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Oh Brave Sir Robert! Thou art wrong. v3.55 did still possess the
auto-replace feature. It was 3.56, a minor bug fix, that disabled it. So
if thou hast 3.55 in thy grasp, thou canst send it on eagle wings to
Squire Shupp.

Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to note from "mike shupp"  on Mon, 23
> Sep 2002 14:56:53 -0700
>
> Mike:
>
> >>> I'm still using XyWrite 3.51 myself.
>
> >> Use v3.54. It was the last one to have that [AC/AR] feature (in
> 3+ series),
> >> and it had a LOT of bug fixes vs. v3.51. Do you have access to it?
>
> > Unfortunately, no.
>
> Would some kind soul pleeze ZIP up v3.54 and attach it to this man?
> I thought I had it, but oddly enough v3.55 is the lowest one in my
> archive -- the lowest I wanted to remember -- v3.55 was a really
> major advance over the previous Editors, especially in its XPL
> capabilities (in a nutshell, v3.54 introduced the XS parser, but XS
> wildcards were only introduced in v3.55, and somewhere marks a real
> watershed, the boundary between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
> in XPL; v4 marks, in a dramatically evolved way, the Modern Age,
> which NBWin hasn't done one bloody thing to advance). OTOH, v3.55
> did lose that single auto-complete feature (which meant, and I guess
> still means, a lot to some people, but always struck me as
> unacceptably intrusive). Now, I did have a 3.55 beta given to me
> just before the PRD settlement... hmmm, where *are* all those 5 1/4"
> disks anyway?
>
> ----------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> ----------

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