Re: XyWin install for XP Pro?

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Peter

Try 'Capturing' LPT1 to your networked print queue.
There is a Capture feature in Novells client, or at the command prompt. Not
sure about Windoze, but you should be able to direct output for LPT1 to a
network queue.

Marc


Quoting "Prof. Peter Knupfer" :

> 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
>
>