Re Two XyWrite Questions

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Installing XyWin under 32-bit Windows has always been problematical. If
you got it set up under 95, the simplest thing to do is just copy that
setup to the 98 machine (on ZIP disk, CD-R, Thumb drive, or over a
network or Direct Cable Connection). If you use a removable medium, just
remember to unmark all the copied directories and files, which will be
flagged R and A (Read-only and Archived). One of those chores that the
good old DOS prompt still does best:
attrib -R -A d:\xy4\*.* /s

By the bye, I just discovered something interesting about those R flags.
I had done a CD-R copy to set up Xy on one of my backup machines, and
removed the R attribute from the dirs. But I forgot to clear it from the
various files (autosav1.tmp, autosav2.tmp, etc) in my autosave dir. So
every time XyWrite tried to autosave the file I was working on, it would
beep and say "Access denied." From either a right click in Windows or a
DOS attrib command, d:\xyw4dos\xyautosa was NOT marked REad only, so I
thought I was going nuts. Just now, checking the syntax of the attrib
command, I discovered the files were still R. So thanks, Joseph Fisher:
trying to solve your problem led to a solution of mine.

As for the XyW III manuals, mine (which I sent to Bry Henderson a while
back) was one big looseleaf vol. And the best software manual ever
written, bar none.
Patricia