Re: U2 version 119

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Judith, one thing I cannot find in your posts (which is not to say it's
not there, but...): Are you running Xy in full-screen mode ((i.e. your
XyWrite screen occupies the WHOLE of your physical screen, and none of
the various Windows desktop thingies--icons, start button, Tray [lower
right], toolbars--are showing)? Or windowed (with the rest of the
desktop visible around it)? The reason this is important is that I
strongly suspect a hardware problem, and when you're running full screen
you are, IIRC, more dependent on hardware than when running in a window.
I did some experiments yesterday, and what I found was that everything
worked fine when I was running Windowed (my normal MO), but when I
switched to full-screen, though I didn't get your results, when I closed
Xy the whole screen went BLACK. Clicking in various areas caused
rectangular patches to reappear, and I probably could have brought the
whole thing back that way, but I elected to reboot. So if you're running
full screen, try switching to windowed mode (rightclick the shortcut
with which you start Xy, find the screen tab, and check Window) and see
if that alters things.

ON Wed., you said:

>>I haven't changed settings.dfl from 80/50 to 80/25 coincide with
the default changes made from the desktop shortcut..<<
I'm not quite sure what you mean there, but (and if I'm wrong on this,
someone pleae correct me) I have NO SL= setting in settings.dfl, because
the Customization Guide says not to use one with "any of the standard
25-line displays"--which is what we're emulating by setting Screen
Length 25 lines in the Pif. So comment that out and see what happens.
Which keys are you using to move the cursor? Those on the Number Pad
(with NumLock turned off)? Or those on the other set to the left of it?
Or is this a laptop? On some keyboards it does make a difference.
Unfortunately, hardware, esp. display adaptors, can create issues.
Recall the great double-cursor carfuffle last year: it proved to be
endemic to certain Dell laptops; even Robert couldn't get rid of it on
one of his. Back in the days of DOS on 486s, I had a mixed ISA-PCI Mobo
with an old ISA VGA adaptor. Xy would crash whenever I had more than 2
or 3 files open. I was on the phone with TTG tech support innumerable
times, and we couldn't figure out why. Then I got a PCI VGA adaptor,
swapped it in, and the crashes ceased instanter. I don't suppose you
know what make and model VGA card you have, and how much RAM it has?
Mine is an Nvidia Gforce 2MX 100/200, BIOS vers. 3.11.01.2410, with 32
Mb of RAM; you should be able to ferret all that out from Device Manager
in Control Panel.

Patricia M. Godfrey