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Re: XYWIN


Hey now, don't get started on "magical moments."
There was few moments more personally magical than when i finished my first
marathon (26 miles, 385 yards) 30 years ago, or sometime when my first kid
was born (then #2 kid and #3 kid ). As most parents know, including
probably more than a few XyWriters, those were very different than the
decidedly unmagical moments when those kids hit age 15 and 16.

But, geez, if you really want magical, what could be better than some of
those 30- and 40-second harmonica solos in some of Bob Dylan's early works,
as in "Sarah."

But all these years -- 15 of them or so -- a nearly daily magical moment
has been using Ctrl+P on my keyboard, which activates the old capture.pm,
macro-on-the-fly program that has saved me so many hours that I have time
to listen to Dylan masterpieces.

I eagerly look forward to the day, maybe over the upcoming Labor Day
weekend, when I install the Jumbo u2 program and will experience the
highest level of magic you folks are talking about.




At 10:20 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:


Morris Krok wrote:

>   Is there a way to turn error checking off so that the program works
> perfectly and does not cause the computer to hang.
>

Morris,
Below is a line from the Nota Bene DFL file. If you don't want an error
message

to appear, set that function to 0. Perhaps it works in XyClunk too. I would
imagine so. You may also need to provide "if" statements to branch around an
error message, but then, again, you'd probably need those in XyDos, too.

And don't forget what Carl the Wise hath said in regard to running XyClunk
programs in Graphic View, not expanded.

Hope this helps a little. Best I can do. I have long since banished all traces
of XyClunk from my system.

Anyway, voila:

; EP is error prompt (erase, print selection, print dir, abort, func SA, del
markers, font mismatch,prompt message for Correct cmd)
DF EP=1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0


>
>   Xy Writers must be the happiest persons because there is so many
> unexpected mysteries in it and in XPL that is always confounding the user.

I prefer not to be confounded, actually. I expect my XPL to work.

>
> So much to confront and solve that one is always experiencing magical
> moments.
Magical??!! Surely not: It's just a software program. A magical moment is
Grace
Kelly's entrance in Hitchcock's "Rear Window," Sinatra singing "Angel
Eyes" from
_Only the Lonely_ or Aimee Mann singing "Red Vines" from _Bachelor No. 2_
or the

concluding paragraphs of _Gatsby_.

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