Re: printer problems {again}

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

>      I thank you all for your help and patience; you (especially Harry)
I was just composing another message to you. Glad I thought to check for
new email.
> helped me realize I could go into the computer--into the files, or
> physically, into the hardware--without "blowing it up." I also learned a lot
> more about Xywrite.
I would urge you to be on the premise of experimenting. For instance,
someone told you that you could not print out FO.TMP from Notepad, so you
didn't try! He's wrong (although there was some confusion on one of your
parts about printing from XyWrite and printing a file produced by XyWrite.
You have to isolate problems--that's the key to solving them. Change one
element at a time until what works doesn't work. (E.g., you can print from
the Windows ME computer to some printer or other--can you print a
XyWrite-produced file?).
By the way, what's to prevent you from copying your XyWrite files (the
originals, not the PRN files) onto the other computer, then printing them
from anything on that other computer--Notepad, Wordpad, Word? You'll have
to take out any XyWrite formatting, but that's not hard. We even have
"filters" to do that automatically. XyWrite is basically just a text
file--something any word-processor can deal with. The only non-text is for
the italics, bold, or other, perhaps more complicated, formatting. But
formatting is just formatting. The medium is not the message; the message
is the message, and that you've got.
>  I just hope that in the process, I haven't driven anyone
> crazy with my lack of know-how.

Only a little nutsy.
>      I am still very interested, as I suppose most people on this list
> are, in finding a printer that is compatible with Xywrite and will print out
> italics and the rest without too much trouble. I'll keep looking here for
> that.

Your LaserJet4 will do that and much more just fine.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx