Re: XyWrite & Windows 2000

["Thomas J Hawley" tjh@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Robert Holmgren"  on Sat, 21 Sep
2002 02:51:08 -0400

Absolutely right; Xywrite DOS will run just fine on W2K's NTFS and there's no
need whatsoever to start setting up FAT16 partitions or installing new drives.

A few questions:

1. Does your W2K shortcut invoke editor.exe directly, or does it run a batch
file?

2. Are you using the default config.nt and autoexec.nt files to run the
shortcut? What's in them? (Right click on the Xy shortcut, take Properties,
then the Program tab. Click Advanced to see the filenames for these two files.)

3. Let us see what's in your startup.int file.

4. Let's define the directory that is there but can't be seen by Xy as the
"Problem Directory." Can the Problem Directory be seen by other Windows apps?
If you have other DOS apps on this machine, can they see the Problem Directory?

As for the "slowness" problem, I've experienced this under W2K, but it can be
fixed. It seems to be hardware related, particularly video hardware and
particularly if you have an LCD screen (in my experience, anyway.) Something
in settings.dfl may be causing it. Try starting Xy without a settings.dfl file
(just rename it temporarily for this test.) Is the slowness still there?

Tom Hawley
New York
tjh@xxxxxxxx