Re: XY4 in Win7-64

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

I have installed Virtual PC 2007 and a DOS machine (6.22) inside that, along with the dosadds virtual disk.

I have added my C:\XY directory as a shared folder called drive X:

When DOS loads a C:> prompt I change directory to X: and then run editor.exe (XY4).
Startup.int and Settings.DFL are the portable versions.

XY4 takes many, many long minutes to load, and sometimes it just hangs. Doing something as formerly
instantaneous as calling a file or using the thesaurus hangs again, though it eventually gets there.


I suspect it has something to do with the paths to Startup, Settings and the thesaurus, but I don't
quite understand how paths work within Virtual PC.

So a couple of questions:
1) How do you load your XY into the Virtual PC DOS window?
2) What paths are in your STARTUP.INT and SETTINGS.DFL files? I'll try hard-coding them again in
case that's what's hanging up Virtual PC, but I don't know whether they should be C:\XY or C:\X or
something else.

Any help appreciated.

Incidentally, besides the CLIP.EXE problem, DOSBox gets fuzzy type when I use my larger window
(though it's sharp again in "fullresolution" 1024 x 768.

Thanks to all.

Jon Pareles




> From: "Kari Eveli" 
>
> As I said earlier:
> There other possibilities you might want to explore:
> Running Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7 (the blog of V PC
> developer at MS):
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/08/19/running-virtual-pc-2007-on-windows-7.aspx
> This contains the pros and cons quite extensively.
>
> I would suggest to skip the XP mode altogether and run a
> separate Virtual PC 2007 program with DOS 6 installed in it.
> Select the 64 BIT/setup.exe
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4580
>
> DOS applications run very well under this environment.
>
> How to install DOS additions, see my page and look for the
> "DOS Additions" download (MS-supplied version is not
> compatible with DOS).
> http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli