Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

For an up-and-running system, you'd probably want something like
Partition Magic to use to repartition your hard disk. Sixty bucks
or so, but it'll cut down on the agony, unless you ENJOY installing
software from scratch.

I'm just guessing here, so this may not be a real problem, but I've got a
strong hunch that XyWrite handles the hard disk through stock 1980s-vintage
MSDOS system calls, and will expect that partition to be near the front of
your hard drive (ie, under the 1024-cylinder limit).


You can't just tack on an extra FAT-16 partition, I'm saying, even
though Win2000 would make creating such a parition easy. If you've
got the space for another hard drive in your system, consider buying
one and setting it up with a Fat-16 partition -- it probably wouldn't
be much more expensive than buying Partition Magic.



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:27:04 -0400


Thanks---I'll try that. (On a first try, I can't see how to to it, but it
must

be there somewhere in the W2000 help system....)
(I guess you must know, but in case not, automatic substitution returned in
XyWrite IV---I agree it is absolutely essential...)

mike shupp wrote:

> XyWrite probably is having problems with a FAT-32 (either VFAT or
> NTFS) file system. You might set up a small FAT-16 playpen (any
> disk partition of under 1/2 GByte will be formatted this way by
> Windows 98 automatically, and if it isn't automatic under W2000
> you should be able to specify it). Keep your XyWrite here and it
> ought to be able to work with files and directories on this
> partition.
>
> Ditto for some games and Win-3.1 applications. Of course, you
> could use a non-VFAT file system on a larger partition, but you'd
> be wasting a huge amount of disk space.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
> Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: XyWrite & Windows 2000
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:18:54 -0400
>
> My apologies if this question has been asked and answered before (I just
> joined
> the list):
>
> I am trying to use XyWrite on a (new) computer with Windows 2000 on it.
So

> far
> I have encounterd two problems:
>  - when running XyWrite in a window, it runs very slowly: pressing a key
> and
> holding it down results in a delayed response, and programs seem to run
very

> slowly.
>  - the dir command doesn't work for directories other than the default
> directory
> (dir \xxx reports that \xxx has no files, even if it has some)
>
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