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Re: a basic XY III+ glitch?



Well, I actually am in that small minority (?) that started with II+ -- briefly, before Xy3 came along.  And I have to say I don't recall ever seeing anything quite like this situation Lynn describes.  I also have rarely used Xy3 in recent years, having moved to Xy4 when it was introduced.  That said, the theories leaning to hardware malfunction or Editor corruption sound the most plausible to me.


    Jordan



From: Myron Gochnauer
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxx"
Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2015 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: a basic XY III+ glitch?

You say three plus decades, which would put your Xy start back in the days of II or II Plus, so I assume you are using a DOS version. (?)

Two things come to mind first:

1) Keyboard error, either mechanical (like a stuck key) or in the encoding circuits (firmware); or
2) OS system “crash” or whatever you call a temporary glitch in the OS’s functioning that is giving you a run-away key-repeat for carriage returns.

I suppose you could have experienced a looping XPL program that did not exit properly, but I think you would have encountered that before.

All of the XyDOS versions I have used (from II+ to IV) have been remarkably stable and predictable as long as I did not try to exceed the memory and file-size limits.

It really does sound more like a “computer” problem than a “XyWrite” problem.

Myron





> On Nov 1, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Lynn Brenner mailto:lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I've been using Xywrite daily for three plus decades, and this is a first:
>
> As I was typing additional thoughts into a file, the XY screen started shimmying and the text I was typing was replaced by a series of return arrows in the left margin. I quickly hit F5 Store, which of course may have been a mistake.
>
> On opening the file again, I find the first couple of paragraphs (written days ago) intact, but only that string of return arrows below them.
>
> What's odd is that in the directory, this file is now a whopping size -- 344127. The file was less than 12000 when I opened it this morning, and I hadn't even written a complete sentence before the screen began dancing and arrows replaced words. That suggests an enormous file, not just a few paragraphs followed by no more than a couple of pages of arrows.
>
> Can any of you shed light on what has happened?
>
> Lynn Brenner
>