Re: Tame: I spoke too soon

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > I need to pass to DOS the values of some variables, such as filenames. I
> > suppose there might be some way to do that--such as have Xy write them
> > into the .BAT files I'm using. Then run the .BAT files "by hand" from a
> > concurrent DOS prompt.
> Sure, that's how I convert from Xy to WordPerfect. Call a file
> containing the code for the batch file, with markers for the
> variables, then do CI to embed the real variables. Then minimize
> Xy and double click the desktop icon to the batch file (now newly
> rewritten).
Yeah, and I do that a little too. So then I go and write the XPL to do that
and, when I'm done, find that the problems with Tame 6.0rc3 go much deeper
than that. Even w/o shelling to DOS, it loses the ability to respond to the
Ctrl and the Alt keys!


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx