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Re: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age...



Great ideas, Marc and George. A few years ago I burned a CD backing up all my XyWrite files, including customized settings and KBD files.

It's been very handy to have as I've migrated from one computer to another, but I hadn't really considered setting up a BOOTABLE CD until reading your messages just now. Most computers these days will boot from CD ... fewer boot to a USB device ... but both are great ideas that are a potential boon to me. I imagine with a CD, I'd have to set XyWrite to use a default directory that exists on any computer (C: or C:/temp) and include the CD directory (usually D:) in the Path.

Can any of you recommend other workarounds that would be needed to make such a CD functional?

I use Xy4, but I still have the original packaging, documentation and 5.25" floppies for XyIII+. And a copy of Herb Tyson's "XyWrite Revealed."

Thanks!
Jeff Seager


From: "Marc" mailto:marc%40paradise.net.nz To: mailto:xywrite%40ccat.sas.upenn.edu Subject: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age... Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:29:13 +1200 Message-ID: <007601c6b9b0$20d91c80$mailto:800101df%40mosaic.local MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello This is not related to any particular discussion thread, but it is a situation that happened to me recently, and how I overcame the problems. I have a contract to extract legal information for a company that prints (and glues in to the legislature volumes) annotations. They use XY III and, due to a lack of in-house expertise, they are not looking at upgrading to any other version. When running my XPL programs on an XP based PC, I would sometimes get strange results, pages cut-off half way, the programs just not processing all files in the directory, etc. To overcome this I kept an old IBM 486 which I ran DOS 6.22. All was good with the world. Then the hard drive crashed. I had a company attempt to extract the programs off it, to no avail. I managed to find old versions of the programs (without modifications added later) and eventually got them up to date. The HDD crash got me thinking, and I ended up buying a USB memory key (256Mb), formatted it as FAT16, Sys'd it and loaded up DOS 6.22, XY, Norton Utilities 4.5 etc. Now I can run XY-Write on any PC that can boot from a USB key - in a DOS environment. Whilst I may not have multi-tasking ability or data movement access (PC HDDs are not available to DOS) but it is completely portable. I save the files from my Windows Email to the key, reboot from the key, process the files, restart in Windows and email the results back. Since doing this I have not had any run-time gremlins whatsoever. Marc
Message-ID: <001901c6b9c2$da39c190$fea48a45@Scithers1> From: "George Scithers" mailto:owlswickpress%40comcast.net To: mailto:xywrite%40ccat.sas.upenn.edu Subject: Re: Running XY 3 in DOS 6.22 in this daqy and age... Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:43:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Now back up that USB key on a couple-three CDs! AND also on a couple spare keys!! G H Scithers

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