Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000 - & "Best" operating systems

[Steve Webber stevewebber_58@xxxxxxxx]

This question is probably only periperal to the topic here.

Perhaps it's still apt.

For those of us who for the most part merely grapple
 with halfway understanding the wonderful dialogue here,
who manage just one computer,
who replace it only every three years,
who are still, penny-pinchingly, using Windows 98SE,
 and have a year to go before purchasing,
 upgrading to a new operating system

What is/are the answers to the Question - which
better operating system (to take best advantage
of U2's ver. 114) should we begin considering?

--- Robert Holmgren  wrote:
> ** Reply to note from "mike shupp"  on Fri,
> 20
> Sep 2002 14:01:30 -0700
>
> > XyWrite probably is having problems with a FAT-32 (either VFAT or
> > NTFS) file system.
>
> No. Let's not just speculate. XyWrite runs perfectly -- fast! --
> in
> FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, HPFS, Ext2, you name it -- I've used them all
> (except VFAT), under 95, 98, NT, 2K, XP, OS/2, Mandrake, Red Hat.
> I
> even run it off FAT32 under OS/2 (using FAT32.IFS v.94b from OS/2
> Netlabs)! Under 2K, I run it at the tail end of a 39Gb extended
> partition. I've run it off a UDF filesystem (CD-ROM) occasionally.
>
> What does XyWrite know about file systems? Nothing. It makes a
> call
> to a DOS API, and the operating system does the work.
>
> ----------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> ----------


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