Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

If I may comment ( although I have massive problems with XP making text
lines short and by no means have any knowledge worth speaking of ).
I exit window altogether and I use XyWrite from dos C:>cd\editor then
c:\editor>editor.exe

My programme is III plus version 3.56
For the cursor size, I discovered ( by pure chance) much simpler command.
In the startup initiate file enter a command line : BC cur=118.
This makes the cursor quite big. the size of a full letter or character.
As for knowing which mode your are in ( insert or overstrike). when you are
working on the dos screen. The top right hand corner of the command line a
highlighted N and next to it is either I ( which means you are in insert
mode) or O( which means you are on overstrike mode). Just keep an eye on
that line and change it accordingly.
I hope this helps.
Still waiting to find out how I can get the dos mode on XP operating system
to give me a full 56 lines text !
Adel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!


> ** Reply to message from PollyK3@xxxxxxxx on Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:51:18 EDT
>
>
> > Default saves it as a large
> > cursor each time, and so does Properties, but when I reopen Properties
again, the
> > cursor is set on small. So where am I screwing up?
>
> You aren't. If you shell to DOS within XyWrite, you'll see that the
cursor
> has, indeed, changed size according to your instructions. But within
XyWrite,
> the CR and IT defaults rule. Normally, cursor size only changes with font
> size. Remember: XyWrite was never designed to run in a desktop window.
On an
> 80x25 SVGA full-screen, the cursor is plenty big.
>
> You can alter cursor size (and color) in a gross ANSI way by altering the
first
> value of CR from, say, 0 to 15. Problem is, you lose the visual
distinction
> between overstrike and insert modes. The only practical first value for
CR is
> zero, IMO.
>
> The real way to change cursor size is with the IT default (which nobody
ever
> tinkers with, because it looks forbidding: mine is
> 1037,3086,8193,264,1543,8193,0,1 -- eight numeric values. That's the sort
of
> thing you don't adjust, *especially* when you learn that these values are
> "passed to the BIOS interrupt routine" -- my god, change one decimal and
you
> might never see XyWrite [or even your machine] again, right?... but, what
the
> hell, let's change em anyway). Embed ≪VAIT≫ to see what the values are
on
> your system: make sure you're in draft mode with a file open, then
command:
> VA IT.
>
> Here's the crux: basically you want to preserve a distinction between
insert
> and overstrike cursor appearance. Let's posit that insert should be
bigger.
> The first value of IT is insert, the second value is overstrike (and the
third
> value should never be changed from 8193). The rule is that a smaller
number
> yields a larger cursor. On my machine the first and second values are
1037 and
> 3085. If I cut both of those values in half, e.g. to 500 and 1500, I get
a
> much larger cursor. Be sure to preserve all the other values (there are 8
> altogether) when you change any one value, otherwise new settings won't
"take".
> Command should be something like: default
> it=500,1500,8193,264,1792,8193,0,1. Note that if you're not using a
> 25-line screen, it's the next set of three values (4, 5, and 6) that are
in
> effect, not the first set (1, 2, and 3).
>
> When you find values you like, "commit" them to a hard command in your
printer
> files (SETTINGS.DFL in Xy4).
>
> Let me know...
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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>