Re: Version confusion.

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Harry Binswanger writes:
≪ One of the great things about both versions of
Xy is that you can get off the ground with only
editor.exe. You can run editor.exe and then use
that "kernel" to write on the fly the .kbd file and
the settings.dfl file. ≫

That's a new one on me. Are there native commands for
doing that -- writing the default .KBD and SETTINGS.DFL
files to disk? How is it done?

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
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> To weigh in--pointlessly no doubt, but with one new aspect (see bottom):
>
> Nathan wrote:
> > If you dislike super-quasi-WYSIWYG and never
> >make mistakes, there may well no reason to prefer v. 4.
>
> 3 and 4 are, indeed, very similar. I resisted going to 4 for a while, but
> once I moved, I was quite happy. I only occasionally use the WYSIWYG, but
> it's nice that it's there. More important to me are:
>   wild-card replace
>   better memory handling (moving large blocks is easy
>   the ability to use comments in writing XPL -- this is the *;* string,
> which allows XPL to have comments and--glory be!--carriage returns.
>
>
> >By the way, you can use v. 4 from a single 1.44MB floppy in DOS
> >mode or a DOS window. Here is the directory of mine:
> >
> >EDITOR  EXE    681,664 05-08-95 10:21a EDITOR.EXE
>
> 
>
> Here's the new observation. One of the great things about both versions of
> Xy is that you can get off the ground with only editor.exe. You can run
> editor.exe and then use that "kernel" to write on the fly the .kbd file and
> the settings.dfl file. What a program! (I'm not recommending such a course,
> only praising Xy's designer's thoughtfulness.)
>