Xy3 text into Outlook E-mail

[Peter Brown pbrown@xxxxxxxx]

I use Xy version 3.56. Some time ago I wrote a little kbd macro, which makes
use of mail.prn, to get Xy-composed text into E-mail messages. This has
worked well in Microsoft Exchange, but in its wisdom, my organization
insists on "upgrading" Exchange to Microsoft Outlook. That doesn't work;
hence this cry for help.

I suspect the issue is 16 vs. 32 bit. I'm using append file as text (not
attachment) in both Exchange and in Outlook. Outlook sees nothing. OTOH,
using Xy4-DOS, Outlook appends text just fine. I can hear the chorus:
switch to Xy4-DOS, and yes, I may do that. But does anyone have a fix that
would make this work with Xy3?

The keyboard macros run like this:

50=bc,r,u,n, ,c,:,\,r,o,u,t,i,n,e,s,\,m,a,i,l,1,.,p,r,g,xc
;ctrl-shift-m prepares onscreen file for e-mail in with XyWrite
header
;and formats, under the name c:\peter\1mail.tmp
51=bc,r,u,n, ,c,:,\,x,y,\,s,t,a,r,t,u,p,.,i,n,t,xc
;ctrl-shift-comma (key just to the right of m) restores printing
with
;3hplaser.new and resets margin defaults

The program mail1.prg this invokes is simplicity itself:

≪BC≫ erase c:\p\1mail.tmp
≪BC≫ lp c:\xy\mail.prn
≪BC≫ c:\p
≪BC≫ tyf,,c:\p\1mail.tmp



The name 1mail.tmp is chosen to put the file at the front of the Windows
Explorer directory listing. To E-mail a Xy file, I just type ctrl-shift-m,
switch to Exchange, Insert the file 1mail.tmp as text only, the switch back
to Xy and type ctrl-shift-[comma] to restore my default printer driver and
margins.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Peter Brown
pbrown@xxxxxxxx