Re: XYWRITE installation

[Gavin Budge gbudge@xxxxxxxx]

I for one would be interested in the kind of CD copy of Xywrite you were
suggesting - since I've never had the original disks it would take some
effort for me to work out what a regular "installation" of Xy4 should look
like, despite most of the relevant files being available for download.
If you decide to go ahead with the idea, perhaps you could contact me off
list about it - I'd be happy to pay for p&p etc.

        Gavin


At 11:39 AM 6/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Well, unfortunately, the disks TTG sent out for 4.17 have compressed
> files on them that DO need to "be installed." And I suspect that (like
> many DOS apps of that vintage) the installation routine makes use of DOS
> protected mode (interestingly, the installation bombs if run under
> Microsoft DOS 6.2--probably why TTG switched to Novell 7). And apparently
> that causes problems in 32-bit Windows too, even if you do it from a DOS
> Window. There was a posting here last week or so from some poor chap who
> was trying to install under Windows ME (the buggiest excuse for an OS
> even Micro$oft has dared inflict on a hapless public), which was what
> prompted my exercise. I've never tried to "install" under 32-bit Win.
> When I first "upgraded" to Win 95, I simply copied my existing Xy4DOS
> directory to a ZIP drive and thence to the hard drive of my new PC. Same
> with XyWin (whose installation manual, significantly, mentions having to
> "ignore" error messages if installing under Win 95). Yes, EDITOR.EXE and
> the printer drivers are uncompressed, but the menus are useful when doing
> something one doesn't do every day, and I certainly want the hyphenation
> algorithms, which are the best I know of (even coming up with better
> breaks than the parent Atex system could).
> Patricia