Re: Installing Xy under 32-bit Win

["phillipalder" phillipalder@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Patricia,

Many thanks for your reply.

I believe when I put XyWin on my "new" machine a few years ago, I did just
copy files from my laptop using Laplink, and everything worked fine.
However, something is corrupted. To install from the original version 4.12
disks (which I have), one has to boot Windows in a special way. I had that
information from The Technology Group (sadly no more; does anyone know any
way to contact, for example, Kenneth Frank?), but cannot find it. I was
hoping someone else also had that information. (I got very close the other
evening, but failed at the last moment because I couldn't load HIMEM.SYS and
keep XyWin happy simultaneously.)

I killed all the system files on my desktop and copied the files from my
laptop, but still I got the RWFactory error message. I even tried using a
new directory, but the same thing happened. (I has since occurred to me that
that might be because my STARTUP.INT file, for example, defaults to \XW. I
will try changing it and see if that works.)

Phillip


----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia M Godfrey 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: Installing Xy under 32-bit Win; Manual; ANSI


> Actually "installing" in this case is difficult if not outright
> impossible (esp. with XyWin). What you need to do is copy the already
> installed XyDos and XyWin directories from a PC where they're running to
> new directories on the hard drive of your 32-bit Windows PC. Then create
> shortcuts to EDITOR.EXE in both directories on your desktop, tweak the
> properties of the XyDos shortcut to get a screen display you like, and
> you're in business. (Note that XyWin, unlike even most other Win 3.1
> apps, does NOT leave bits and pieces of itself all over the hard drive;
> you could scarcely do this with most Win 3.1 apps.) If your old PC died
> and the installed files there are no longer accessible, I have copies of
> clean, out-of-the-box installations of both that I can either send you as
> attachments (but that might be risky, given my s-l-o-w phone lines) or on
> CD if you give me a snail-mail address.
> Carl and Robert: would you want to put these on your site? Or might we
> get in trouble with people without licenses using them?
> As for the manual, I have the XY3 manual, which was in looseleaf format,
> and a sheet-fed scanner, which means I scanning it in would not be
> probhibitively difficult (as it is when you have to hop up to position a
> sheet with a flatbed scanner). Don't know how good my scanning and OCR SW
> are, though (I just got it), and it will absolutely need to be proofread:
> the best OCR SW has a 1 char in 100 error rate.
> ANSI conversion: I have been working on creating a document that will at
> least establish what the values for the various characters are in the
> different apps and platforms. It's far from finished, but does include
> the >256 chars. Would this help? It will take me a bit of time to figure
> out which is the latest and most complete version.
> Patricia