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Re: can you rename editor.exe?



"Yo Intl. YK" wrote:

> At 02:39 PM 11/9/01 -0500, Bill Troop wrote:
> >In my desperation to start afresh with Xy4 under XP,
> >which I am unable to do, I wonder if it is OK to rename
> >editor.exe?
>
> Actually, I was surprised to find that the XY.EXE file which I had been
> using for months on my bootleg version so many years ago was in fact
> originally called "editor", when going legal.
> Yes, of course. In DOS you can rename anything. None the stupid constraints
> of Windows there.
>

I think there are some aspects of Xy that are hard-coded to look for Editor.Exe
-- the Startup file, for one. I never messed with that.

Jordan