Re: XyWin install for XP Pro?

["Prof. Peter Knupfer" knupfer@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks to Jordan Fox for his suggestions. I was able to get a rickety
installation to run, but it's unhappy and will need tweaking to deal
with screen fonts, printer files, etc. I got Xy4 Dos to run pretty
well on the same machine, although it's not clear to me how to send
output to a network printer when the printer files point only to lpt or
com ports.
I'll consult the xywrite list logs when the search script becomes
available again.

regards

Peter

At 07:01 PM 7/30/2003, you wrote:
>"Prof. Peter Knupfer" wrote:
>
>> I take it that XyWin (4.1) is incompatible with WinXP?
>
>Not so, according to past discussions here.
>
>> At least it appears that my XW installer doesn't want to proceed
>
>You should expect that result from the majority of older (16-bit, or
>circa Win 3.1, and maybe early Win-'95) Windows programs.
>
>> Can the files be decompressed from the disks and moved to their
>> proper directories by hand,
>
>Yes, provided you know what the archiver was that they used (I don't,
>offhand, but it might be in the message base somewhere), and happen
>to have the standalone utility amongst your archival software. The
>preferred procedure discussed here was to take an old, fully installed
>XyWin directory with all the files, and back it up or XCOPY it into
>a so-named and so-located directory on your XP system. Then make a
>working desktop icon (shortcut) for it. (I hope I'm not thinking of the
>procedure for XyDOS here . . . . )
>
>> or will that cause trouble with the system
>> registry, even if it could be done?
>
>My recollection is that the install does very little or critical, by
way of
>
>changes to the Win Registry. But you should know that I never liked
>Windows or XyWin, and used them infrequently. I did succeed in
>getting a working XyWin installation into NT-4, and then later into W2K,
>by means that could not have involved the installer. Hopefully this will
>still be the case for you, in XP.
>
>
>Jordan