RE: Windows 98 compatibility

["Buschman George G." GGB@xxxxxxxx]

Orlay,

The Dos Critical error is caused by a CD ROM Driver interfereing with
Xywrite's INSTALL program.

Reboot your PC and press F8 when you see a single line message saying
starting windows 98......
This should bring up a STARTUP menu. Choose SAFE MODE COMMAND PROMPT ONLY
and then run the Install program from the DOS prompt which comes up.
[A:\INSTALL]

If you do not get the STARTUP menu.
After rebooting, press F8 once a second until the menu comes up.

Once the install is finished, reboot the PC and let it startup normally.

The logon file NAME.LOG is created when you perform the install. The
install ask you for the NAME you want to use for Bookkeeping purposes.

The xxx.LOG file must be missing

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Orlay Edward Plummer [SMTP:Orlay.Plummer@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 06, 1998 4:42 PM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Windows 98 compatibility
>
> Susan,
>
> Windows 98 is not a factor in the request to login. A friend copied a
> Xywrite 4.017 for DOS to his computer that runs Windows 98. No problems.
> It was a lot more stable than XyWin. The startup.int has a login command
> that logs him in using a log file in the Xywrite directory. For example,
> in my setup, the startup.int includes the line login oep. The Xywrite4
> directory has the login file 'oep.log'. You may be missing either the
> login command or the login file.
>
> Ed Plummer
>
> At 10:32 AM 8/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >I'd appreciate any suggestions for running Xywrite 4 for Dos in Windows
> 98. It
> >worked fine in Windows 3.1. When I try to install the program, I get a
> message
> >saying, "a DOS critical error has occurred." When I copied the program
> into a
> >folder and then tried to run it, it starts up fine and then at the
> command
> line,
> >I get a request to log on. I never specified a log on, or password, and
> can't do
> >anything but quit.
> >Thanks for your help.
> >Susan Jaffe
> >e-mail: jaffe@xxxxxxxx
> >
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