RE: Nota Bene

["Anne Putnam" aputnam@xxxxxxxx]

I am always happy to hear that XyWriters are finding that NB "works like
a charm." Since the question has been asked, I would like to give an
update on the status of NB compatibility with XP.

Many people, like David, are using Nota Bene 6.0 under Windows XP with
no problems. However, since the release in early 2002 of Windows XP, we
have become aware of a handful bugs in NB that are specific to XP. Some
users encounter them and others do not. The most commonly encountered XP
bug is the paragraph settings dialog (Paragraph on the Format menu)
which just doesn't work properly under XP. A less commonly encountered,
but serious, problem is the inability to use NB on a computer that is
sometimes using a network printer and sometimes disconnected from the
network. There are also some fairly trivial bugs. We have fixed all the
XP bugs and fixes will be incorporated in v. 6.1. We expect to release
6.1 within the next couple of weeks and it will be free (via download)
for all who purchase 6.0. In the meantime, we have been making the
fixes available to XP users who encounter problems.

I use NB (with the XP fixes) on XP every day, and have no problems.

Anne Putnam
President, Nota Bene Associates, Inc.
aputnam@xxxxxxxx
www.notabene.com
1-800-4NB-ORDER (1-800-462-6733)
212-334-0445
212-334-0845 (fax)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
> B. Kronenfeld
> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 1:23 PM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Nota Bene
>
>
> I'm running NB 6.0 under WinXP (on a pentium 4), use it
> routinely, and it
> is working like a charm--much better than it did under Win
> 98. Long file
> names is one thing that works in XP but did not in 98. I know
> there exist
> some bugs--which are being fixed in upcoming 6.1--but I have
> not myself
> tripped over them.
>
> I came to NBWin from XyWrite, use the XY kbd, etc.. Have done
> only a little
> XPL. NBWin 5.x, at least on Win 98 (first edition, I guess)
> was pretty
> buggy. I'm quite happy with NB 6.0.
>                 David
> At 12:58 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 11/16/2002 09:30 PM -0500, Martin J. Osborne wrote:
> >>     Does anyone have experience with a recent version
> of NB running
> >> under
> >>W2000/XP? My understanding is that at least early versions
> were pretty
> >>buggy. Their tech support people claim that the program is
> basically
> >>100% compatible with XyWrite.
> >
> >There was a discussion here within the last year about the
> screen problems
> >in NBWin. I do not remember the technical details, but
> (someone please
> >come to my rescue on this!) the program has -- as I vaguely
> remember the
> >discussion -- two different standards for displaying text
> and this caused
> >the problems. If this is what you mean by *compatible,* then
> it was not.
> >Since then they have welcomed aboard a Xywrite veteran.
> Whether his work
> >had corrected the display problems, I can not say. The best
> place for
> >information is the Note Bene list, a congenial place with
> many people who
> >swear by the program and have made it work.
> >
> >michael norman
>
>
>