Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Since I've experienced similar problems, I can answer most of these questions. My editor.exe is
invoked directly, not from a batch file.
The config.nt and autoexec.nt are the default files and appear to contain nothing untoward.
Removing settings.dfl makes no difference to the sluggish performance

The speed problem only occurs when running in XY4 (or XY3 for that matter) in a window. Full
screen it is fine, though as I indicated in my last post, W2k does not appear to be able to handle
most of the non-standard font sizes in full screen.

I have also seen a problem with font sharpness in w2k compared to W98se . In the latter I can use
a 12x20 truetype font which does not seem to be accessible in w2k. Is there a way of getting
truetupe fonts to actually appear?

Regarding an earlier query of Robert Holmgren's I've tried another DOS program, the file manager
Volkov, and that appears to dislpay exactly the same sluggish performance in a window under w2k.

I am using a TFT screen, but I cannot see how that can be responsible for poor performance running
XY4 in a window, when it runs fine (from this point of view) full screen.

Paul Breeze


On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 01:02:29 -0400, Thomas J Hawley wrote:
>** Reply to message from "Robert Holmgren"  on Sat, 21 Sep
>2002 02:51:08 -0400
>
>Absolutely right; Xywrite DOS will run just fine on W2K's NTFS and there's no
>need whatsoever to start setting up FAT16 partitions or installing new drives.
>
>A few questions:
>
>1. Does your W2K shortcut invoke editor.exe directly, or does it run a batch
>file?
>
>2. Are you using the default config.nt and autoexec.nt files to run the
>shortcut? What's in them? (Right click on the Xy shortcut, take Properties,
>then the Program tab. Click Advanced to see the filenames for these two files.)
>
>3. Let us see what's in your startup.int file.
>
>4. Let's define the directory that is there but can't be seen by Xy as the
>"Problem Directory." Can the Problem Directory be seen by other Windows apps?
>If you have other DOS apps on this machine, can they see the Problem Directory?
>
>As for the "slowness" problem, I've experienced this under W2K, but it can be
>fixed. It seems to be hardware related, particularly video hardware and
>particularly if you have an LCD screen (in my experience, anyway.) Something
>in settings.dfl may be causing it. Try starting Xy without a settings.dfl file
>(just rename it temporarily for this test.) Is the slowness still there?
>
>Tom Hawley
>New York
>tjh@xxxxxxxx