Re: Xy under OS/2 (Was: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!)

["Chris Madsen" cmadsen@xxxxxxxx]

The decision to use VB was based on Kenny Frank's plan to eventually port
everything to MS Werd. The decision was not made without a lot of -- ahh --
discussion. The memory problem is indeed overcome, but as I understand it,
that limitation was taken care of anyway by changes to the editor code.

Now, why would you want to decompile the code? That's reverse engineering,
which is forbidden by the copyright notice. Snort.

I know of no efforts to make SmartWords available. However, Wealth Transfer
Planning (SmartWords with the estate planning module) will be available for
sale sometime soon. Unfortunately, you have to pay for both. You can discard
the WTP module easily, but there is no break on price that I know of. The
SmartWords engine dates from January 2001. For more information, see
www.ilsdocs.com . The website is pretty bare, but it gives some email
addresses that might be useful.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Xy under OS/2 (Was: running xy 3+ under windows xp -
aarrgghhh!)


> ** Reply to message from "Chris Madsen"  on Mon,
23
> Jun 2003 09:59:09 -0400
>
> May I ask what advantages compiled VB4 was deemed to have over XPL? VB
does
> not appear more terse or succinct, syntactically. Out of Memory is really
the
> biggest limitation of XPL (even in NBWin the memory area doesn't seem
enlarged
> over Xy4DOS, where you can stuff a maximum of about 26-27Kb of programming
in
> the buffer before it bursts and EDITOR starts to malfunction) -- does VB
> overcome that limitation? The great downside of VB, of course, is that it
> isn't user-accessible like XPL. Nor can you decompile it, AFAIK (I've
tried
> with the NBWin VB routines; the last working decompiler I've seen works
only in
> VB3).
>
> So: is SmartWords just to be consigned to the dustbin, after all that
work?
> Or will those of us who love XyWrite ever get hold of this program?
> Collectively we're pretty smart, we can figure it out; we don't need any
help.
> Who, or how, might we approach to get access to it? It's worth a stab,
anyway.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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