Re: Getting Xy4Dos Up & Running on T61 with XP-Pro

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 If I correctly understand your problem, and...

 If you cannot get things to work in the way Harry and Carl are
 suggesting, _and you are pretty sure what the problem is_, an
 alternative way would be to modify startup.ini on your desktop,
 and copy the resultant file to yout laptop's c:\xy4 directory,
 assuming that is where you've located EDITOR.EXE.

 If you follow this route, make sure you make a backup copy of
 your STARTUP.INI file that is on your desktop before modifying
 anything. There is no need to ruin two setups.

 M.W. Poirier


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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Peter,
To combine with Carl's post: you can edit STARTUP.INT in Notepad. In fact,
all you want to do, can be done at the DOS prompt:

copy c:startup.int startup.sav
copy con startup.int 
^Z
That will first save your startup.int as startup.sav, then make a new blank
file (overwriting the old startup.int).
Now you have a blank startup.int, so you can try launching EDITOR.EXE from
the DOS prompt. Then, assuming it does launch, try out each line in
STARTUP.SAV, as Carl suggested, on the command line (or try copying one by
one the lines into your new STARTUP.INT).
As to the Run Normal Window--the "Run" there is not the Run command from the
Start menu, but a word that appears before a field in the Properties tab for
Program.
If you can't launch Xy from a DOS prompt *with a blank startup.int* then the
only possibility I can think of is a corrupted EDITOR.EXE file. But let's
wait on that.
Sorry; I should have mentioned that I did try that -- starting directly
from a c: prompt, both by issuing "cmd" in Run, and by interrupting a
restart in "Safe Mode with Command Prompt". Both produced the same result
- a brief flash of the Xy4 screen and then shut down.
  I don't understand how I can really look at and edit my Startup.int
without having Xy running: in Notepad for example, I can't see the BX at
the beginning of the lines or the Q2 at the end. Windows notepad just
displays a y with what looks like an umlaut over it, followed by a comma,
instead of either. How do I know the commands are really there and capable
of being recognized by Editor?
  I can't answer your question about whether Run is "set" to Normal
Windows, because I didn't know you could "set" any features of Run, and
don't know how.
  I should also say that I first tried to find advice in the Xy Archive on
setting up Xy4Dos under XP-Pro and all of my search terms returns 0 hits,
so either the Archive or I was doing something wrong. I tried browsing
through 2000 and 2001, which did work, but didn't locate anything useful.
--Peter

Harry Binswanger wrote:
The shortcut is simply "c:\xy4\editor.exe".

Might try entering something in working directory--either c:\xy4 or c:\xy

Also, is Run set to Normal Window?
Other settings (for other Properties tabs) are somewhere in the Xy
Archives.
It occurs to me belatedly that the obvious first thing to try is getting a
DOS prompt, CD-ing to C:\Xy4 and launching EDITOR.EXE from there.
If that doesn't work, seems like it must be your STARTUP.INT, so to debug
it (even though you think it's ok), try an empty one and add things back
until it works. You can comment out all the lines by preceding each with a
;*; then erase them in sequence. But the first thing to try is launching
EDITOR from a regular DOS prompt.
I'll try the empty startup.int if you'll give me an idea of how that will
help -- is it to try to isolate a bad line in the startup? If so, I did
read through it line by line to try to find anything directing Editor to
go somewhere unavailable or the like.  --Peter Goldberger

Harry Binswanger wrote:
What are the exact contents of your shortcut (under Properties/Program).

Also, try it with an empty startup.int.

I have the Lenovo X61 with the same OS as you. No problem running it.
Couldn't hurt to check your Path to ensure C:\XY4 is in there--not that
it really has to be.
In a few days I begin an extended trip for the first time since I got
my Lenovo T61 with XP-ProSP2. I ordinarily use Xy4Dos on a desktop
running Windows 98SE, and have to put the Xy onto the laptop now for
the first time. (Then I will add U2.) On the desktop I have all the
program files in a \Xy4 directory and documents/work in a \xy
directory. I created a c:\xy4 directory on the laptop and copied all
the contents of my \xy4 directory from the desktop onto the laptop, and
then created a desktop shortcut that goes to c:\xy4 and runs the
command "editor".  I see a dos window open and what I imagine is the
XyWrite working screen, but only for a second -- and then it shuts
down, and I'm back in Windows where I started. Suggestions on what to
check, and what settings I might have wrong and where? -- Peter
Goldberger, Ardmore, PA


Harry Binswanger
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Harry Binswanger
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Harry Binswanger
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