Re: Xy3+ in w2k

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

flash wrote:
> Y'all,
>
> Bob Ashley, who started this thread, has been joined by Philip Friedman,
> re getting Xy3+ to run rapidly in w2k. Bob is away from his desk this
> week, so I'll take up the cudgels next week with them both.

Thank you. Not having used III in years, I was out of my depth. I'll
send you, off list, Bob's startup.int file and files listing the
directories of his two setups; as I said, I'm not sure about the
larger directory structure, but think that may be the source of some
of the problems.
> If Bob also has printer problems, I'll steer him to the archives, where
> this topic must have been exhaustively explored before; as I never print
> from Xy, I did not follow those threads.

I've done some searching of the archives myself, and did not find
anything relevant: he's got a Canon BJ printer connected to LPT1 with
a parallel cable, with a driver that worked before and no problems
printing from Windows. He gets a path not found message (and I suspect
directory structure problems are causing that).

Since XyIII doesn't have settings.dfl, isn't it more dependent on a
path statement to keep track of its own directory? 4 can generally
find itself, although I'm not the best person to testify on that,
because with four Windows partitions on my hard drive, I can be logged
into three directories (CD d:\xy4 before I even launch Xy; CD
e:\wkingdir--i.e., whichever one of my data directories I intend to
work in; and CD f:\somedir, if I need to access my utilities drive at)
once.

That is, of course, yet another reason to partition. Otherwise, you
have to give Xy--and most other DOS apps--fully qualified paths to all
your files. Say xy is in C:\Xy, and all your data is (where Big
Brother Bill, in his infinite wisdom, thinks it should be) in
C:\MyDocu~1. So if you want to call a file from Xy you must either
first set Xy's dir into the path or else, e.g., CA
C:\myDocu~1\Gram&CED\foreign\codes\specchar.txt. But if Xy is in D:
and your data on e:, then just
d:
cd d:\xy4
editor
before launching, and then, on Xy's CmLine
Cd e:\Gram&CED\foreign\codes
and then
CA e:sometext.txt
I have a couple of U2 frames to automate changing to my more often
used data directories.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx