Re: Problem Running XyDOS under Win XP

[Alan Heubert alan@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you, Carl. I should have mentioned that I'm using a
new laptop (an HP model), and an external keyboard (an Avant Stellar,
connected to the computer with a TrippLite PS2-to-USB converter, which
the keyboard company recommends as giving no problems to any of its
customers, and which gave me no trouble before I installed XyWrite). When
the keyboard starts behaving in a funny way, I find that the laptop's own
keyboard behaves exactly the same way. Combined with the fact that no
other programs experience the keyboard problem, it really doesn't seem as
if the keyboard itself is the problem.

I'm glad to hear your is running fine. And it gives me hope...

Alan

At 9/14/2004 Tuesday 05:41 PM, you wrote:
> Alan Heubert writes:
> ≪ I've just upgraded to Windows XP, and am having a peculiar
> problem running XyDOS 4.17. . . . on the average of about five times a
> day, XyWrite stops responding properly to the keyboard. In particular,
> the Enter and F9 keys produce strange characters, . . .
> ≫
>
> Is your computer a desktop or a laptop?  The proprietary keyboard
> handlers of some more recent (last 6-7 years or so) laptops sometimes
> have trouble with DOS programs, including XyWrite.  In that case,
> I've heard that plugging in an external (standard) keyboard can
> help.
>
> This weekend I copied my Xy4 setup to a new WinXP desktop system, and it
> works fine.  No keyboard problems, no problems of any kind; it
> runs.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx