RE: coming back to xywrite

["Tom Robertson" t-r@xxxxxxxx]

Tony G.:

You ask:
"OK, now, how do you save simultaneously to your hard drive and a
floppy?"

I do it by putting the following line in my keyboard file on the
Ctrl-Shift-30 (A) key:

;;A Save to A: Drive
30=BC,s,a,XC,BC,s,a, ,A,:,XC

Is there a better way?

Incidentally, does anyone have a similar way of saving to the A:
drive and other folders in Word 97? So far, it looks like I have
to learn the much more complicated (compared to XyWrite)
Microsoft Visual Basic.

TR...




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of tgieske
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 5:52 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: coming back to xywrite


At 05:23 PM 4/16/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>attachment
>After using Xywrite for seven or eight years, I started using
Windows98
and Word97 last August; they came with a new computer.
>
>Now I think I have to get back to Xywrite, but I have some
questions that
I hope you can help me with.
>
>It seems to boil down to whether I can use XyDos4.014 with
Windows98 or if
I have to use XyWindows. Xy4.014 is still on my old computer; the
diskettes
are updates. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 3200 laptop.
>
>Background: I am a freelance writer and basically need a word
processor,
Xywrite's ability to simultaneously save to hard disk & floppy
each time I
save, large type on screen, and some simple math to do my
bookkeeping.
>
>
>[1] Is there a way to get XyDos 4.014 to work with Windows98 to
permit me
to fool around with on-screen fonts and zooms in order to enlarge
the type
on the screen? I was able to do this on the old computer only by
using
graphic view, which was intolerably jumpy as it moved from line
to line. As
far as I know I was using Dos and never used the Windows 3.1 that
came with
the old computer.
>
>[2] If I have to go with XYWindows, what are the bugs and
glitches I
should be aware of? I'm still kinda traumatized by my encounter
with Word
and would like to know what I am in for with XYWindows.
>  --are XYWindows' bugs and glitches easily fixable, or will I
have to
devote a second career to them?
>
>[3] Does XyWindows come with adequate manuals? Word's manuals
and Help
Menus kept me using tech phone support for tutorials, and I don't
think I
could start all that again even if Xywrite were to permit it.
>
>[4] Simple math: Xy4.014 allowed me to calculate by selecting
numbers with
alt+, and totaling with alt=. Does XyWindows use the same method
(or
something equally simple), or will I have to set up tables as in
Word?
>
>[5] The few times I needed tables in XY 4.014, the program was
skittish;
an Xy tech told me table used too much RAM or some such. Is
XyWindows any
better?
>
>[6] I have already converted more than half of my old files to
Word (had
no choice); am I going to have trouble converting them back into
Xywrite?
>
>[7] I seem to be ending all correspondence these days with the
following
non-Xy query: Does anyone know of any voice recognition software
in
existence or in the works that recognizes the voices of
strangers? I
interview tons of people I never have spoken to before and never
expect to
speak to again, and an old injury is making note-taking
increasingly nerve
wracking.
>
>Many thanks for your help
>
>Judith Davidsen
>
>
>
Tony G.