Msg: Re: Another new VDOSXY install

Thanks, Carl, it was a read-only flag. Because of the added security, that's an epidemic problem with Win7--nice to know the command code.

Now I'm working on VCLIP, and I'm having the same problem I remember from the other Win7 computer.

But I was a little more attentive to what I did.

I extracted vclip.zip into C:\Vdos\XY, made sure the named files were in C:\VDOS\XY

I added the environmental variable vdosdir.

I copied (because for some reason Add2U2 helpkey doesn't work for me) the VCLIP code just before the end of XYWEB120.reg.

Because I wasn't sure what the VCLIP.ME instructions meant, I copied both of the Copy and Paste keyboard codes into my XY4-3.kbd file onto CTRL-46 (C) and 47 (V), trying first the shorter ones (and semi-coloning out the other of course) and then the longer ones.

And somehow that scrambles the function key codes--for instance, F10 brings up the menus, like File, etc., that F6 did before, instead of clearing the command line. With the longer key assignment code, CTRL-C copied the defined text onto the same XY file and didn't say anything about the clipboard.

At one point I also got VDOS stuck so it wouldn't close--was displaying either part of the XY4 page and some tiny white text or the DOS screen with Z:>, and wouldn't exit.

So close and yet so far. I'm probably misreading the VCLIP.ME instructions or garbling XYWEB120.REG. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Jon Pareles

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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:05:53 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Jon P" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "mailto:xywrite4@xxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
Subject: Another new VDOSXY install

Well, that new computer came about sooner than I expected, and I thought I'd try VDOSXY this time around. Still Windows 7 Professional.

I got the VDOSXY version from Datarealm and was nicely walked through the alterations to Autoexec.txt. Thanks for making it so simple.

Opened VDosXY and Zing! There it is. DIR brought up the files. But try to open one and...Access Denied.

Is there a setting to change? Thanks.

Jon Pareles

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From: "Carl Distefano" mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Another new VDOSXY install
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:04:51 -0400

Reply to note from "Jon P" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted
sender "mailto:xywrite4@xxxxxxxx" for DMARC) Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:05:53
+0000 (UTC)

Jon,

> DIR brought up the files. But try to open one and...Access
> Denied.

The only thing I can think of off the bat is that the Read-Only
attribute of the files was somehow set. Try this: At the Xy CMline,
command:

ATTRIB d:\path\filename.ext,0

Then try to CAll the file. If it works, then you may need to clear
the Read-Only attribute on all of your document files. Open a CMD.EXE
window, and at the command prompt issue ATTRIB *.* -R.

--
Carl Distefano
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx