Re: Icons in taskbar OT [TAME]

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Michael wrote:
> At 10:46 PM 12/22/2007, Wolfgang Bechstein wrote:
> > The time when I _did_ see the Xy icon
> > on the task bar was indeed when I was experimenting with TameDOS. I have
> > since completely discarded it (and good riddance). Tame does some
> > amazing things, but it's the most disorganized and badly supported
> > program I've seen in a while (the help link for the most recent version
> > still points to a completely outdated file on the web site), and it
> > strews its configuration files all over the place without rhyme or
> > reason.
> This is more difinitum than defense. TAME puts its files in only two
> places -- a folder/subfolders under Program Files and in a
> folder/subfolder under My Docs.
Well, not really. I was truly dumbfounded to find that 6.0 put a file
XyWrite.app.tam in the same folder as EDITOR.EXE (viz., in my case,
C:\xy\). I only realized this when I got an error message, on launching
Tame-Xy, about an invalid line in it. Am currently experimenting with Pre-6
(for 5.1) to see if eliminating that file in C:\xy\ stops the NTVDM
crashes. So far, I have to choose between 5.1 Pre-6, which handles every
keystroke beautifully but crashes NTVDM regularly, and 6.0 which doesn't
crash but is unusable in regard to ctrl key, alt key, and has slow cursor
key movement.
>  The file in MyDocs is, in effect, an .ini file with all the settings the
> user creates from the GUI. The main program folders in the TAME 5.1/6.0
> directory are filled with files that are, in effect, sample files filled
> with examples of different settings. Granted, the documentation on the
> Web site is lousy. You have to read his technical reference doc and FAQ's
> closely, and you have do a lot of experimenting, trying this setting or
> that until you discover a setting that controls the key repeat rate and
> so forth. True, the tech support can be hit or miss -- it's a one-man
> operation. But for twenty bucks it does what some of us require -- allows
> you to run XY on XP in almost any font and in most cases runs it
> smoothly. If it weren't for TAME, I'd be using NotaBene now to create
> manuscript, not the word processor I've been using since 1983.
I gave up on NotaBene because it can't handle alt-keys, and it also seems
to be buggy otherwise. Not the rock-solid Xy we've come to depend on. I do
like NB's ability to create a beautiful, Word-like, screen display. Doesn't
handle inserted images well, however.
> Michael Norman


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx