Re: Two or more Xys open

["Francisco Barrau" fbarrau@xxxxxxxx]

Harry wrote:
> dos/nv/x/z /c start editor.exe

I dont know if I'm doing something wrong, but in Xy4 (in both full screen or
window) you become "hostage of this new proces", that is, it starts a new
editor instance but you only abandone it and returns to the original editor
when you abandone it manually or when the program --in our example, the
report made by a XPL program-- is completed.
  Launching it form autoexec.bat, you have two sesions at the same time:
one working with the report, and abandoning XY, closing the window and
another instance where you work "with your fingers". I dont know how to call
this, perhaps a
multi-trend or multi-task situation... Imagin you, while reading a document,
decides send mails by a perl Sendmail program. With a Xpl you starts the
perl script, but you dont pay attention on it: you continues reading your
document in your Xy session.



> I'm surprised that anything Xy does requires minutes.

  I built a pseudo data base with records from 2100 people and Xy opens,
reads and close the severarl archives, reading secuences that are going to
form a report. My sistem is old and slow (400Mhz).

  Francisco Barrau


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Binswanger" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Two or more Xys open


> Francisco wrote:
>
> >The "inter-active" instance will find the report done by
> >the other in few minutes.
>
> I'm surprised that anything Xy does requires minutes.
>
> >I can't launch this new instance of XY from within the first one without
> >being "hostage" of this new proces.... It would be very interesting to
> >launch a proces and come bak to continue your work. Perhaps somebody
knows
> >how to do that?
>
> Simple. The command is:
>
> dos/nv/x/z /c start editor.exe
>
> That works in Win98, but a different syntax is required for XP.
>
> If editor.exe is not on your PATH, you'll need to add the path to the
> filename in the above.
>
> And, of course, you can load it onto a key in your .KBD file.
>
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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