Since at least three quarters of the posts are over my head, I do not know
whether my comments add anything but here goes. I run xy4 from a full
screen in xp pro using the icon Robert described a few years ago. When I
want to switch between xy4 and a windows application, I save my document with a
txt extension after stripping out the deltas. I than call it up in notepad
and paste the retrieved document in the windows applicaton I want to use.
When converting a document generated by windows application such as excell or
word, I paste it into a notepad since it seems to strip out hard returns, store
the file with a txt extension and than retrieve it in xy.
I assume there is a better way of doing the conversion back and forth, but
at least I understand what I am doing and so far it works.
I still have working copies of word for word so if I want to preserve
formating I use word for word for conversions both ways.
Will any of my procedures work on a pc with windows 7.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:33
AM
Subject: Re: copying & pasting
between XY and MS
Kari,
This has to be a very awkward and unnecessary way
to go. Xy works just
peachy under XP. The cocoon he has to break out of is
the idea that
full-screen is better than a big window. Virtual PC is
overkill.
Regards,
Harry
>If you are upgrading to
XP, you must break out of your cocoon and find a
>new cozy nest for
your DOS applications. VirtualPC is a good choice. This
>way you can
run your apps under native DOS and full-screen. Copying data
>gets done
through a shared folder as files.
>
>To install VirtualPC, go to
my utilities page
>(http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html href="http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html)
and
>
>1) download MS Virtual PC 2007 (Windows Vista or Windows
XP)
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx
>
>2)
download my DOS Additions (http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/dosadd.zip href="http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/dosadd.zip),
>unzip it and open the readme file for installation instructions (DOS
>additions are needed to share a folder between DOS and
XP)
>
>3) install DOS into the virtual machine, then the DOS
additions, and
>applications (Xy). If you install Windows 3.11 on top
of DOS, you can use
>networking and DOS boxes, but this is a bit more
complicated, and a not
>needed for basic operation.
>
>One
added benefit is that once you have your DOS apps in a virtual
>machine, you can copy the virtual machine to a newer operating system,
>i.e. it is totally portable.
>
>Best
regards,
>
>Kari Eveli
>LEXITEC Book Publishing
(Finland)
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