Greetings too you all xywrite users, My name is Carel van Haeften living in the Netherlands. I used to work with ATEX (up to 1990) and I am using xywrite since about 1988 or so. All that time I use XyWrite III Plus version 3.53, first on a new 286, than an old 386 than an old 486 an finally (2 years ago) a new modern machine with windows-98/se. The main reason still using xywrite is that (besides it is so atex-like) I know the manual by heart (don't test me it is just an expression) and another great reason is that I have programmed lot of text-editing-procedures (lately to covert my genealogy xywrite-forms-files to HTML for the web) I am member of the xy-list for about 1/2 a year, there is a lot of discussion I don't follow (or understand) because its about later versions of xywrite, even versions for windows. Q 1. === Should I migrate to such a version and with one ? What's my profit? All my programming in xy (.pm) will that still work? Where can I get it? Legally? With manual? Q 2. ?=== I am reasonable happy with my 3.53 version, I can copy but regrettable not paste. Suspect there is no way to do that while running xy3.53 under DOS under WIN98/se. Is it? Useful idea. ?=== In 1999 the automatic save with c:,a: was discussed. I used this save-manner since the early 90's, it worked fine but slow, very slow. My new pc has a cd-burner (e:); along with it there is software wich makes it possible to (re)write the cd as if it was a disc. So I made the same directory-structure as I had on my c: on the e:-cd (using xywrite mkdir but you can also use explorer). I still had to use the 9character dos naming-structure. (also filenames must have that structure) Then you type c:,e: in the command-line and execute it (or place it in the startup.int). You have now a convenient and quick way of saving your xyfiles (that 700MB is a lot for textfiles, at least for me) Q 3. ?== Wish I could force win98/se to do the same way of saving for lots of other programs. But how? Greetings Carel