Documentation for XyWin; transition to Nota Bene

[Alan Heubert alan@xxxxxxxx]

Hi, all. I mistakenly sent this out a few days ago with the
wrong subject line, so that many of you may not have read it. Please
forgive me for sending it out a second time now with a better subject
line.


I'm finally going to give Nota Bene v. 7 a try: I've had too many odd
keyboard problems in XyDOS running under WinXP. Can anyone tell me
whether there's any particularly helpful information out there for folks
making this transition? In particular, I've never used XyWrite for
Windows, and I'm wondering whether it includes features (say, for
example, additional functions, or functions that behave differently than
under DOS) that were also adopted by Nota Bene. Nota Bene tells me that
XPL works in their program, but that they don't document or support it.
If so, would I do well to obtain the documentation for XyWin? Or is the
documentation for XyDOS (along with Herb Tyson's book) all I
need?


Thanks very much for any suggestions you can give me.

Alan


At 12/21/2005 Wednesday 08:21 AM, you wrote:


Reply to note from "Chuck
Creesy" 

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:30:10 -0500


Chuck:


> allow me to rephrase the question: do the old error code

> numbers work with version eight? I'm guessing from the upgrades

> done to make XyWWWeb.U2 work with NB that this is not a big

> issue?


Not an issue at all.  If you list Xy4's error codes alongside

NBWin's, you'll see that NB's are a superset of Xy4's.  There
are

many additional codes in NB, but the ones that overlap with Xy are

identical (cosmetic differences aside).


There's a U2 routine called ERR that will give you a handle on the

numeric error codes and their associated messages in any Xy-

environment (Xy4/XyWin/NBWin).  For example, ERR
reports

the most recent error code (VA$ER) and message.  ERR
12

reports the error message associated with error code 12.

ERR search lists all error codes/messages that contain
the

string "search".  And ERR /NV gives you the
whole shebang

-- a listing of all the error codes and messages.


--

Carl Distefano

cld@xxxxxxxx