Re: XyWin stops working

["andy turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks. My printer is a Brother MFC 210C.
I have two copies of XY4 but it seems each one can only be loaded once, and
the computers they were loaded into have been dumped. No problem because, as
far as I'm concerned, iiia is a much better program.
One problem -- I'm not a computer type. I was editing a magazine when I got
XY and I had in-house help to tailor it, (actually Times XYwrite) to my
taste. I can now modify XY myself, (rewrite the keyboard), but in just about
everything else I'm a klutz.
I've been getting by pasting xy files into Word to print them, but it's
slow. I tried Nota Bene but it didn't work for me, because it seemed to want
to produce only finished (typeset) work. That's the same problem as Word --
but I'm used to writing rough and letting typesetters worry about the final
appearance.
Still, it would be a convenience if I could print my roughs direct from XY.
I do a lot of my editing in a coffee shop these days and, in the old days,
it was nice to bang out a rough copy direct from XY.
I'm spending a lot of time out of town these days, so I will be off-line for
most of next week -- but I look forward to any advice you can offer.

andy t
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: XyWin stops working
andy turnbull wrote:
xy for windows? does it exist? I've been using xyiiia in a dos window in
a windows machine. Is xy for windows a take-off on xy4? Can it work like
xyiiia? Is it still available?
None of the versions of XyWrite are "available" in the sense that you
could go out and buy a copy anywhere. They're what is called
"abandonware": the previous owner hasn't formally relinquished copyright,
but doesn't seem to be actively pursuing people who give a couple of their
friends copies.
XyWrite for Windows is pretty flaky, and won't run at all on some XP
boxes. Xy 4 works quite well under all versions of Windows (somebody is
even running it on Vista). If you like to run in windowed mode (rather
than full-screen) and your hardware is fairly fast, you may experience a
certain degree of jerkiness as the cursor responds--or takes its time
responding--to keystrokes under Windows 2000 and XP.
Note well that under XP and W 2000, you CAN print to a USB printer from Xy
or any DOS app IF the printer understands a supported printer language.
That is, if your printer is an HP PCL or a Postscript one, and you have a
network card in your PC, you should be able to tell Xy and the opsys that
that USB printer is actually on LTP2. This is done using a command from
the DOS prompt. We first need to know what kind of printer you have; if it
can work with any of the XyIII drivers, we can tell you how to do it.
Xy 4 is available at XyWrite.com and vetusware.com, and with the addition
of XyWWWEB.com's U2 routines, you can print to ANY printer, attached to
any port, using two (valuable in their own right) additional programs,
Ghostscript (free) and GSView (nagware, but worth every penny of its some
$30 US price).
Tell us what kind of printer you have, and we'll recommend the best way
for you to go. NotaBene is also a solution, but it costs, and is, I
gather, forever being upgraded.

--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx




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