Re: Xy under OS/2 (Was: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!)

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Chris Madsen"  on Mon, 23
Jun 2003 09:59:09 -0400

May I ask what advantages compiled VB4 was deemed to have over XPL? VB does
not appear more terse or succinct, syntactically. Out of Memory is really the
biggest limitation of XPL (even in NBWin the memory area doesn't seem enlarged
over Xy4DOS, where you can stuff a maximum of about 26-27Kb of programming in
the buffer before it bursts and EDITOR starts to malfunction) -- does VB
overcome that limitation? The great downside of VB, of course, is that it
isn't user-accessible like XPL. Nor can you decompile it, AFAIK (I've tried
with the NBWin VB routines; the last working decompiler I've seen works only in
VB3).

So: is SmartWords just to be consigned to the dustbin, after all that work?
Or will those of us who love XyWrite ever get hold of this program?
Collectively we're pretty smart, we can figure it out; we don't need any help.
Who, or how, might we approach to get access to it? It's worth a stab, anyway.

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Robert Holmgren
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