Re: Seamless XyWrite/Win7-64/XP mode

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop--

The shortcut method is completely unintuitive but here's how.

If you don't already have one, create a .pif shortcut to XY on your virtual XP desktop (or
wherever).

Still in XP, drag the shortcut into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu.

Amazingly, it will then "publish" in Win7 and you can pin it to the Start Menu, taskbar,
onto a donkey....

And when you click onto the XY shortcut, it opens the XY window without showing you XP at all. Feels
like home.

Harry, IDKEY.PM opens my .kbd file and hops around it, CTRL keys included.

Jon Pareles

>
> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:12:47 -0500
> From: Harry Binswanger 
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
>
> Jon,
>
>
> After a struggle, I've got it to work. There's at least one
> problem:
> probably because of ANSI vs. ASCII, I can't get certain ctrl
> keys working.
> For instance, ctrl-k works but control q doesn't. When I run
> IDKEY.PM,
> hitting the ctrl key itself gives:
> key=29 not found on Table=[unshifted]; Hit key to ID . . .
> Do all your ctrl-keys work in IDKEY.PM?
>
> Excitedly and gratefully,
> Harry
>
> >OK, happy new installation.
> >
> >I have now installed Tame 5.0 (newly downloaded from the
> Tame website) in
> >XP Mode, along with some of the monospace fonts I've
> collected through the
> >years. Verily Serif is very readable.
> >
> >http://www.dafont.com/verily-serif-mono.font
> >
> >Tame worked almost immediately. XY was starting in
> NUMLOCK (which hadn't
> >happened in un-TAMEd XP MODE), and my STARTUP.INT has a
> line that toggles
> >NumLock (BC NI TN etc.) that was put in when some
> previous version also
> >started in NumLock. I took out one toggle, and it's
> fine.
> >
> >Even full-screen people should be happy with this
> method. TAME gives you
> >full-screen, nice and crisp.
> >
> >Jon Pareles
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 20:17:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: J R FOX 
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
>
> Harry,
>
> Touting Parallels is irrelevant for many of us, since it is
> a
> MAC-based solution.
>
>
>   Jordan
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/1/13, Harry Binswanger 
> wrote:
>
> > From: Harry Binswanger 
> > Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
> > To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 6:49 PM
> >
> > >
> > > > In XP under Parallels with Win 7 as host
> machine,
> > I mapped the
> > > > host c: drive to x:, and I just did dir x:\
> in Xy4
> > and the
> > > > directory came up instantly.
> > >
> > > For the record, what mapping procedure did you
> use? Did
> > you do
> > >
> > > NET USE X: \\COMPUTERNAME\SHARENAME
> > >
> > > on the host machine? Something else? Was any
> further
> > step required?
> >
> > Parallels does it all automatically. What I did was
> > unnecessary. After a fresh reboot of the VM, Net use
> says:
> >  Y: \\psf\Home
> >  Z: \\psf\Host
> >
> > "psf" stands for "Parallels Shared Folders"
> >
> > and Home is a folder with some system stuff and some
> > folders, e.g., Desktop, that I do recognize.. But Host
> is
> > the root directory of the host machine.
> >
> > To go the other way around, that is, to let Win 7 refer
> to
> > the guest XP via a drive letter, it's complicated:
> > Start/Computer (highlight but don't
> click)/Properties/Map
> > Network Drive/
> >
> > In the Map Network drive dlg box:
> > Drive: [Your choice of drive-letter, I chose "X" for
> "XP"]
> > Folder: \\[The UNC computer name of the virtual
> > machine]\[Name of folder--e.g., C]
> >
> > Net result: in the VM, Z: refers to the host's C:
> drive, in
> > the host, X: refers to the VM's C: drive.
> >
> > Again, the first mapping (Z:) seems to be automatic
> within
> > Parallels.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:38:00 -0500
> From: Harry Binswanger 
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene
> (sorry Anne!)
>
> Jordan,
>
> No, Parallels Desktop is for Mac. Parallels Workstation is
> for PC. Thanks
> for sending your post, because that needed to be cleared
> up.
>
> But Jon P's solution, if I can perfect it, trumps Parallels
> Workstation.
>
>
> >Harry,
> >
> >Touting Parallels is irrelevant for many of us, since it
> is a
> >MAC-based solution.
> >
> >
> >   Jordan
> >
> >
> >--- On Tue, 1/1/13, Harry Binswanger 
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Harry Binswanger 
> > > Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota
> Bene (sorry Anne!)
> > > To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 6:49 PM
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > In XP under Parallels with Win 7 as host
> machine,
> > > I mapped the
> > > > > host c: drive to x:, and I just did dir
> x:\ in Xy4
> > > and the
> > > > > directory came up instantly.
> > > >
> > > > For the record, what mapping procedure did
> you use? Did
> > > you do
> > > >
> > > > NET USE X: \\COMPUTERNAME\SHARENAME
> > > >
> > > > on the host machine? Something else? Was any
> further
> > > step required?
> > >
> > > Parallels does it all automatically. What I did
> was
> > > unnecessary. After a fresh reboot of the VM, Net
> use says:
> > >  Y: \\psf\Home
> > >  Z: \\psf\Host
> > >
> > > "psf" stands for "Parallels Shared Folders"
> > >
> > > and Home is a folder with some system stuff and
> some
> > > folders, e.g., Desktop, that I do recognize.. But
> Host is
> > > the root directory of the host machine.
> > >
> > > To go the other way around, that is, to let Win 7
> refer to
> > > the guest XP via a drive letter, it's
> complicated:
> > > Start/Computer (highlight but don't
> click)/Properties/Map
> > > Network Drive/
> > >
> > > In the Map Network drive dlg box:
> > > Drive: [Your choice of drive-letter, I chose "X"
> for "XP"]
> > > Folder: \\[The UNC computer name of the virtual
> > > machine]\[Name of folder--e.g., C]
> > >
> > > Net result: in the VM, Z: refers to the host's C:
> drive, in
> > > the host, X: refers to the VM's C: drive.
> > >
> > > Again, the first mapping (Z:) seems to be
> automatic within
> > > Parallels.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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