Re: Xywrite antiques

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

I just got on this site today, and the two posts I've seen already suggest
you guys are die-hard XyWriters (or whatever we're called).
I've used XyWrite for 15 yrs, since 1986, and am the only guy in my
Microsoft-based newspaper using it.

Can't imagine giving it up.

So, howdy folks!




At 04:50 PM 7/19/01 -0800, you wrote:
> yesss@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > . xyWrite users prize above all else software
> > we ourselves can bend to our diverse needs.
>
> Quite so.
>
> > To presume that a product with a hard-coded keyboard,
> > e.g., would "provide what many of you are looking for"
> > reveals a basic misperception and proves that--when
> > what we already have meets basic needs and is so
> > user-configurable to meet new ones--we are rightly
> > skeptical about new-software promises. The offer
> > of a "free xyWrite keyboard" gave a hint of
> > reduced flexibility, but I couldn't have imagined
> > an apparently binary-mapped xyWrite-family kbd.
>
> We're in agreement here. No way am I prepared to re-map my extensively
> mapped keyboard, which has been that way for so very long. Having .SGTs or
> XPL routines or Help Frames that no longer work would be a large drawback as
> well.
>
> > ≪ Well, I do have to admit that NB is a Windows program. ≫
>
> This ranks as a big problem for me. The Command Line is reduced to a small
> supporting role in XyWin. I'm not familiar with NB, but doubt it has the
> flexibility to mimic the look and feel of Xy4DOS. Absent that I think I'll
> stand pat.
>
> > I salute NB for that, and I'd like to further support
> > development. If NB ever develops an interest in knowing
> > what *xyWrite* users think would constitute the world's
> > best word processor and responds accordingly, I'll be
> > first in line to try it. Till then, when I want to use
> > a Windows word processor I'll load xyWin, the most
> > unfairly bad-mouthed app I know (all too often
> > by people who never used it). ...
>
> Maybe so, maybe so. I tried it, could not seem to mold it to my
> preferences, or at least to my tolerances, so I shelved it. No surprise --
> it looks and feels like a Windows program. And I guess that ruins it for
> me.
>
> Jordan