Re: Getting Xy4Dos Up & Running on T61 with XP-Pro

[Peter Goldberger peter.goldberger@xxxxxxxx]

Since following Robert's suggestion (like Carl's, and Harry's) didn't
affect the problem I'm having (nor did copying Editor.exe over again
from where it's working to the new machine), I'm now eagerly about to
try Patricia's plan. This is almost fun.
-- Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > Sometimes STARTUP.INT just crashes Editor, for no obvious reason
> > at all. It happens especially on my computers when I haven't
> > rebooted the whole machine for a long time. Memory gets goofed
> > up or something.
> Very interesting. I had the same thing that Peter is reporting (Xy
> flashes on screen, then vanishes) once, when I was porting it from a
> 98 to a W2K or XP machine (cannot recall which now). Of course, I was
> trying to use the load-by-means-of-a-batchfile method that I had used
> all through DOS and W9x, and I assumed it was something in the way XP
> handles batchfiles. Startup.int, IIRC, had nothing to do with it.
> What might have something to do with it, though, is Read-only or
> Archive bits set on the files or folders involved, esp. if you copied
> from the 98 machine to a CD and then to the XP one. Open a DOS prompt
> and command
> ATTRIB -R -A c:\xy4\*.* /s
> That should clear any such settings, if they're the spanner in the works.
> Anyway, after Robert persuaded me to stop trying to launch with a
> batchfile, I took to always running Xy from a cmd.exe, not a
> command.com, VDM. This was chiefly to get the icons I want to display
> always and everywhere, but I have generally found it quite as stable
> and usable as a commend.com VDM.
> So give that a try: right click on your desktop, choose New, then
> Shortcut. (I'm working on W2K here, so some things may be slightly
> different on XP.) Carefully type in in the window that opens:
> %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe
> Click on Next until the shortcut is finished, then right-click on it,
> choose Properties. In the Target window, carefully append to
> %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe
> a space, followed by /c c:\xy4\editor.exe
> Assuming c:\xy4 is editor.exe's directory. Put that directory in the
> slot that says "Start in", and put "Normal Window" in the one that
> says "Run in".
> While you're at it, on the Shortcut tab, click Change icon and put
> something other than the c:\ prompt there, so you know when you're
> calling Xy. (There are probably some icons in your Xy directory if you
> copied it over; browse there.)
> If double-clicking on that shortcut works, you're in business. Now
> right click on the blue bar at the top of Xy's working screen, Choose
> Properties, then Fonts, and choose a font (your initial one may be
> very small; enlarging the font automatically enlarges the size of the
> window).
> I forget whether setting memory values really takes in XP; I know it
> is absolutely a Potemkin Village in Vista. But I have fewer memory
> problems in both that I did in 9x.
> I'm tempted to wonder, for the 999th time, how people manage with
> their data folders on C: along with the opsys and programs. Having a
> separate data partition is _so_ much more convenient.