Msg: Re: A wild new idea for the future of XyWrite

Hi Jordan,

I thought you were trying to install vDos-lfn and vDosXy side by side and making comparisons between them. In short, vDos-lfn contains ALL features of vDosXy, plus LFN support as well as various other features not found in vDosXy. Also, vDosXy had various limitations that don't exist in vDos-lfn. For example, EMSMagic 1.1 will work in vDos-lfn to provide EMS memory for Xy4, but unfortunately it won't work in vDosXy. And sure, vDos-lfn will work in both 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows.

Wengier

On Friday, July 15, 2016 11:40 AM, J R FOX wrote:

Hi Carl,

So, the lfn version has for you supplanted the earlier VDosXy implementation, which is the one that I had installed ? It was my intention to check out LFN, though I had not gotten around to it yet. Then it must have some advantages -- beyond the fact that we have the developer participating on this list, which is a highly valuable thing in itself. It is also quite remarkable, if he had no prior involvement with XyWrite.

Were you saying that this is really a solution just for 64-bit rigs ? Then I could use it on the 64-bit Win 7 or 8.1 boxes, but not on one that has 32-bit Win 7 ? I presume you are using the U2 library within this environment -- and successfully ? Is the printing situation with LFN any better than under VDosXy, or much the same ?

Jordan

From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: A wild new idea for the future of XyWrite

For 64-bit
Windows machines, however, I think most users would be better off
running a VDM (vDos-lfn being the gold standard for XyWrite), or
setting up 32-bit Windows in a virtual machine.