RE: Problems with XyWrite and Windows 95.

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

It would appear that your problems relate to the "properties" settings for
Win95. Assuming you run Xy4 from a desktop icon, right-click on the icon,
go to "Properties" and check to see that the "Screen" tab is checked for
"Full-Screen" instead of "Window" and that the "Program" tab is
checked for
"Close on exit". That should address the full-screen issue and the
empty-window issue. (My current machine is Windows NT, but I believe that
Win95 is similar in dealing with properties.)

Does this help?

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Edwards [SMTP:mje@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, June 14, 2002 12:24 PM
> To:	XyWrite List
> Subject:	Problems with XyWrite and Windows 95.
>
>                          Michael Edwards.
>
>   I acquired a copy of XyWrite, version 4, perhaps a year ago, and I
> experimented with it, with a view to adopting it as my main
> word-processor, but
> I have had problems running it with Windows 95, and these have deterred me
> from
> continuing with it.
>   I am using an I.B.M. ThinkPad 770 ED, just in case that's relevant.
> The
> problems I have are two-fold.
>
>   One of them is common to any DOS program that I run, and that is
> that, when
> I go to the DOS prompt, the entire DOS screen occupies only a smallish
> square in
> the centre of the screen, I suppose amounting to half the total screen
> area, and
> the entire DOS program is squeezed into that, even if I am running at 50
> lines
> per screen. Perhaps this is specific to my computer, and there is no
> solution,
> or, if there is, there is nothing that XyWrite itself can do to correct
> this.
>
>   The other problem is specific to XyWrite. When I am ready to quit
> XyWrite,
> and I press the keys that should return me to the DOS prompt, I get a
> completely
> blue screen, the background blue that XyWrite uses (well, the square that
> DOS
> uses goes blue, with black around it - I'm not talking about the Windows
> "Blue
> Screen of Death" here), and the program freezes indefinitely.
>   I can still use Alt-Tab to cycle between other Windows programs I'm
> using
> at the time, although of course I do have the uneasy feeling that the
> stability
> of those programs could be endangered. And if I press "Ctrl-Alt-Del" to
> show a
> list of what's running, and I select XyWrite for closing, I then get error
> messages telling me that the program is not responding. I can then close
> it,
> once I click "OK" on enough screens with error messages, but I feel all
> this
> shouldn't be happening, and I don't feel I can trust things while they're
> working this way.
>   Another sign that something may be wrong here is that, after I've
> been
> through all this, the cursor in Windows programs, selection bars in menus,
> and
> the like, seem a bit "sticky" and slow to get moving when I try to move
> it.
>
>   I think I did write in about this once before, and got no response.
> I'd be
> grateful if anyone could please help me with these two problems. I got
> XyWrite
> hoping it would be just what I want in a word-processor, and I still feel
> it
> will be right for me once I'm used to it and know it better; but all this
> has
> put me off doing much at all with it, and this does rather disappoint me.
>   Would it really be better for me not to use XyWrite (or any DOS
> program at
> all) with Windows 95 at all, but have a completely separate computer, or
> at
> least hard drive on my laptop, for DOS programs? (I use a few others,
> too, or
> have done, but these tend to be inhibited too by my not quite trusting the
> combination of Windows 95 with any DOS programs.) I can see obvious
> advantages
> to having a dedicated DOS computer or hard drive, and it would enable me
> to use
> DOS far more purely; but of course it would create problems spreading my
> work
> between two different computers.
>   Any ideas or thoughts would be gratefully welcomed, thank you.
>
>             Regards,
>              Michael Edwards.
>