Re: Memory problems with XyDOS (4) under Win98?

["Walter Jowers" walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx]

As far as I know, you won't have to do anything special. You shouldn't need
the memory manager anymore. You shouldn't need to exit to DOS.

You can just create a shortcut on the Win98 desktop, which will run
c:\xy\editor (or whatever you typed in at the C: prompt to load XyWrite
before). That'll open a nice DOS window, which you can re-size to suit
yourself. You can change the size of the font in the window to suit
yourself. If you want to go to a Windows app, you can do it without closing
down XyWrite.

In fact, you could leave XyWrite open forever on a newish computer, and
*never* run into a memory problem.

Walter Jowers, Nashville
E-mail: walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx
Biz website: http://www.nashscene.com/~housesense

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Van Tassel <101233.342@xxxxxxxx>
To: XyWrite List 
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 1:48 AM
Subject: Memory problems with XyDOS (4) under Win98?


> I'm about to acquire a PC with P-III chip and 64meg RAM, with Win98
> pre-installed. I'd like to be able to live with Win98, for the sake of
> simplicity and printer compatibility, as I have lived for 5 years plus
with
> Win 3.x for the same reasons.
>
> But for serious editing work (on files up to 1meg or so in size) I still
> use XyDOS, and I'd like to go on doing so. I don't know yet if it's
> possible in Win98 (as it is in Win3.x) to abandon Windows altogether and
> run XyDOS from (as it were) within the underlying DOS; or will I have to
> open a DOS window within Win98?
>
> But here's my question. In DOS 3.x, with large files (including a lot of
> italics, redlining etc.) I was getting frequent crashes until I followed
my
> then-guru's advice and installed a memory manager -- Qualitas's 386Max.
> I've lived happily ever after, until now. My guru is on the wrong side of
> the Atlantic, so you guys have to be my guroi (?): how should I run XyDOS
> to get the best out of my new PC?
>
> Cheers
> Eric Van Tassel