Re: Xywrite with Windows 98

[leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

ArtL7@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > . . . The error message is something like "can't find file
> > c:\win...."...[then I can't read the rest]. A friend's guess is that it's a
> > path problem, and I should just plug in C:\Xywrite in the new autoexec.bat
> > file in windows 98.
>
> Art,
>
> That _ought_ to do it. In fact, I would put in the path statement both
> your XY directory and your AOL directory too. Also: check out your
> xywrite startup.int and see if you have a default path for your
> temporary XyWrite files. There should be a line in there like this:
>
> default dr=c:\xy\temp
>
> or whatever.
>
> Naturally, the subdirectory temp must actually exist! Ah, but you _knew_
> that, didn't you :-)
>
> Let me know if this doesn't work and I'll cogitate on it some more.
>
> Best,
>
> Thanks leslie...I don't know if I have temp subdirectory of Xywrite, and don't
> know what it's used for...My techie, of course, doesn't know anything about
> xywrite. But I'll try to figure it out. It turns out that at least two of my
> critical functions -- loading an e-mail stripping printer driver (the command
> is "lp e-mail.prn") and the "typef ,c:\DIRECTORY/FILE" functions work in the
> main Xywrite directory and subdirectories in my old Dos computer -- but not in
> my new Ms-DOS in Win98 environment. Any idea why and what can be done about
> it? The tech guy at technology group was stumped. What do you do to make sure,
> by the way, if you use Xywrite in an MS-DOS /Win 98 environment to make sure
> it prints correctly following your DOS instructions?
>      Thanks, Art Levine.


Art,

I'm wondering if you copied all the files you needed from your old
system, and copied them exactly, directory for directory. Did you do a
fresh install on the new system or did you copy the files over?

--Leslie--

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
lb136@xxxxxxxx