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Re: Off topic question.

 
I have had only one problem running Xywrite 4 on Xp at the command prompt in full screen, and that is that when I go into Xy I get a half screen window which I cure by alt w and then x for maximize.  My experience may not relevant to others since I never use the equivalent of wysiwyg and I always convert my documents to wordperfect 5.1 to print. I have had no problems under Xp converting from Xywrite to Word Perfect using Word for Word and thereafter no problem printing in Word Perfect 5.1.  Since I  only use Xywrite for writing and not for printing and wordperfect only for printing and not for writing then only in a single font -namely new times roman - I may be avoiding many of the problems that others are experiencing who are pushing their dos word processors to the maximum under xp. Furthermore in the 15 years that I have been using Nota Bene and then Xywrite 4 I have always run the screen as light green on a dark background because the Federal Aviation Authority had determined that for controllers that or amber on dark were the easiest on the eyes for people using computer monitors.  Given this caveat my satisfaction with the screen may have no relevancy for others.  
 
As to putting xywrite on a new computer I did not experience any difficulties even when transferring xywrite to an xp computer from either a dos or a windows 98se pc.  I have used my fastlynx cable and simply copied from my source pc to my target pc on several occasions and recently when I was transferring from a pc with a network card to another pc with a network card I also simply copied from one pc to the other over the network cable.  When I was too lazy to carry the target pc to the room where the source pc was, I used my laptop as an intermediary, copying to the laptop from the source pc and then moving the laptop to the other room and copying from the laptop to the target pc.  Of course with those portable memory sticks, there is probably no need to bother with cables or a laptop.  In any event the important thing is simply to copy files from a source drive to a target  drive by the easiest means possible  and to not try to install from the original diskettes. 
 
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p.s.  It is my  understanding that a laplink cable or pc anywhere cable  will perform the same function as a fastlynx cable.
 
 
Subject: Re: Off topic question.



  As you may have guessed by now, I'm more than a little
  reluctant to run under XP for the very reasons that all
  or almost all of you speak about on this list, namely,
  one cannot run XY4 in a DOS window, which is rather
  significant when one cannot get used to the fonts in
  DOS full screen.  But what is worse is the fact that
  most of the programmes I like are DOS programmes, i.e.,
  Lotus Agenda, Grandview, etc., and they too don't run
  well under XP.  As for Window98, SE, I have a little
  experience with it, and while it is almost the same as
  Windows95, it is not quite the same.  So, as you might
  guess, I'm still running with Windows95.  And so, if
  I correctly understand you, a "thumb drive is out of the
  question for me at the moment, until I solve my operating
  system problems.

  Have any of you experience with DOS 2000?  I understand
  that it is compatible with many of the latest model
  machines, in the sense that it can take advantage of
  all or most of the new hardware.  Is that correct?  That
  may be the way for me to go on my home machine, since
  I don't have much used for the latest gadgets and I
  don't play games.

  M.W. Poirier

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Harry Binswanger wrote:
>
> >   I think, I think I found the solution, while waiting for an
> >   answer.  Using PkZip for DOS, the only reasonable OS, as far
> >   as I am concerned, I issued the following command:
> >
> >   pkzip -&fu c:\xy4\*.*
>
> Now that you've got the solution to copying on floppies ... why not buy a
> "thumb" drive (flash memory) for about $30 and use it for the whole Xy
> directory and much more? Widely sold--e.g., at Staples.
>
> The thumb drives require a minimum of win98 SE and some brands are a bit
> hard to install on that OS, but I hear it goes in easily under later OS's.
>
> I keep a couple of them stored in my laptop bag.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx href="mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxhb@xxxxxxxx
>
>