Re: XyWrite/Windows XPL

[sshaw@xxxxxxxx (Stephen Shaw)]

You can suppress those dialog boxes with the command ES 1 [for example BX(ES
1)]. When you are through, you can revert to the default of showing errors
with the command ES 0.

Unlike xy3 and xy4, you cannot suppress them with the /nv flag [for example
BX(ch/nv /abc/def/)].

Stephen Shaw
National Institutes of Health
sshaw@xxxxxxxx



>I'm trying to write a routine for converting styled XyWrite/Windows
>files to Quark XPress tags, which requires a long series of search
>and replaces. I've done similar routines in XyWrite 3.5x for years.
>But the Windows version throws up a "not found - OK" dialog box
>whenever a search fails, stopping the routine and defeating the
>whole purpose. How do I turn it off? df ep=0 doesn't do it.
>
>Is there better documentation of XPL for Windows than what's
>in the Reference Guide anywhere? Did Tyson ever publish his
>book, the one he started writing for Signature?
>
>What is the current version of XyWrite/Windows? Not for Win 95,
>just for Windows for Workgroups 3.11?
>
>
>--Chuck Creesy
>Princeton University Press
>creesy@xxxxxxxx
>609-258-5745  Fax: 609-258-6305
>
>