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Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

Thanks.  As it happens, I've been a ZTree user for many years, and do use it a lot to narrow down searches for specific file, which can include the use of wildcards.  Another feature I use is its ability to make hierarchical catalogs of partitions, thumb drives, or entire external (backup) hard drives.  This results in searchable text files that can point me towards where some particular item is stored.

None of this is as straightforward as that Norton FF was.  It is likely that ZTW can _also_ search through a lot of internal file contents, even within .Exe files -- say you wanted to look for a certain error message, or the developer's name, or version number -- but that is something I associated with FF, which made this easy.


  Jordan

 
 
 
 
  From: Avrom 
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
 Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:53 AM
 Subject: Re: Staying with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)
  
 














I would suggest looking at ztreewin.  It has all the functions of
Xtreegold and Ithink also of pcshell.  It is not fast or simple  like
file find was but you can specify what file you are looking for and quickly go
lthrough a lot of directories.


 


 


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Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 11:54
 AM

 
Subject: Re: Staying with XP after April
 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

 


 

 
I have maintained a NB license for the past couple years, but, if one
 uses it *infrequently* (such as to print the occasional document on
 contemporary printers, as I do) it remains a rather expensive solution, just
 for that.  Ongoing changes to NB may have also pulled the rug out from
 under the ability to use your longstanding keyboard macros or xpl like the U2
 library with it.  (If that is incorrect, I hope to be enlightened on that
 score.)

 


 
The
 Search function in 7 is pretty bad, if not the complete disaster that the
 "Search Pup" was in XP, until one disabled it.  What I'd really like to
 discover is some alternate utility as good as the old FileFind (FF) from
 Norton 4.5, back in the DOS days.  That could bring you up lists of files
 -- probably with optional use of wild cards -- *or* even specific text strings
 in a file, and in surprisingly fast searches. 

 


 
One
 other thing of a display nature that you did not mention is the Aero (or is it
 "Metro" now ?), that became standard with 7.  I can tell you that that
 "disappearing / reappearing glass window" can be very disconcerting for some
 older, longtime Win users.  It will suddenly overlay something else, or
 the (perhaps fullscreen) window you were working in will seem to disappear
 entirely, when your mouse pointer strays a bit.  I've often been tempted
 to disable this "feature", but for certain reasons never got around to doing
 so.

 


 


 
 
 Jordan

 


 


 

  

  

  

  

  From:
  Bill Troop 
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 6:03
  AM
Subject: Re: Staying
  with XP after April 8 2014 (was Win 7 vs Win 8)

  


  

  
> Longer term, I'm hoping that Nota Bene will be our
  salvation.

Is there any evidence that Nota Bene will ever support
  OpenType fully or even Unicode fully? Will NotaBene modernize sufficiently
  to support fine typography at even the level of Word?

There was a
  time when XyWrite/Nota Bene led the field on book
  production/typesetting features. I often think it's a pity that it hasn't
  continued to evolve in those directions.

. . .

Regarding XP
  to Win 7, I would say that the transition takes about an hour. 7 is much
  easier to use, and really is easier on the eye. One thing to note, however:
  while it is easily possible in XP to search for files that have no extension
  - - something which some XyWriters, including me, alas, have got into the
  bad habit of doing - - MS search facilities after XP (Vista and onwards) do
  not have a mechanism for search-indexing files without extension names, so
  some other form of file-search becomes obligatory. That said, I am finding
  that there Win 8.1 may have finally brought back some limited ability to
  index and quicly search for files without
  extensions.