Re: House Call

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Irene,

Glad you like your mac, I'm sorry for the problems you are having now.
As Robert pointed out, and you have probably surmised, it IS
difficult to get DOS running on your mac. (It used to be a no-brainer
when Virtual PC (VPC) was available for the Mac on PPC architecture,
but those days are gone.) If you wanted to get Windows running on
your mac, and then run Xy under the DOS box that way then either
parallels or vmware should enable you to do that.
As for DOS, i too forsee a day when i will finally have to get rid of
my trusty seven year old Mac powerbook and get an Intel based Mac, so
i've been looking at scenarios for running Xy.
There WAS a guy who had posted to the vmware forum who during the
course of his forum post, HAD discovered a way to have not only DOS
running under vmware but also with support for a shared folder
construct. (Something we talked on the list here wrt Parallels.) So i
believe that it IS possible, i just haven't tried it.)
Also i think some people were having success with using either DOSEMU
or DOSBOX (?) to create an emulated DOS environment for the Mac.
Those utilities, if you search for them, i think have executables for
the Mac, so it may just be a matter of installing those apps, but you
will probably have to setup some parameters for the system.
So sorry, until more of the big guys go Mac, it's going to take a
little work!

Russ
On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Irene Silverman wrote:
> Dear List
> I switched recently to an iBook, love it and am thinking of buying
> Apple's beautiful new 20-inch PC next month. My only hesitation is
> that no one I've talked to, including Apple's genius bar people,
> has had a clue as to how to install and run Xy 3+ (Version 3.55) on
> an Apple.
> I emailed a prominent member of this list directly, saying that it
> would be worth a LOT to me -- really a lot, like $500 -- to have
> beloved Xy running on my laptop and the new PC, and asking if he or
> someone he knows might come to my house -- I live in Manhattan --
> and install it.
>
> He kindly wrote back:
>   "I don't have a clue about Macs ... in recent days we have
> been talking about just these issues -- there are numbers of people
> who use Macs and have XyWrite running on it ... who know exactly
> how to do it, and rely on it every day. And they would be
> delighted to help you, I'm sure. The only difficulty is that no
> one of them is going to come to your house and do it for you --
> you're going to have to follow their guidance and do it
> yourself ... how you get DOS on your Apple is really the main
> issue. ... May I suggest that you ask the same question you asked
> me publicly on the maillist, without the request to visit you, and
> see who steps forward. "
> I am following this advice but WITH the request for a house call. I
> apologize, but honestly I don't want to learn how to do it, I just
> want it done.
> It would probably be best to write me directly and not bother the
> list. Is there anyone ...????
>
> Irene