Re: Long Lost XPL Routine [was: young for life}

["Young For Life Products, Ltd" contact@xxxxxxxx]

Rene,

Thanks for your advice. It must be a trial for those like you, who find
computers and programming easy, to deal with ignoramuses like me, but in the
spirit of stumbling forward in xyfriendship, I did what you suggested, and
got nothing. When I go to the XY4 directory, all I find are two
subdirectories - one for PGMS and the other for SAMPLES. Nothing in PGMS.
Didn't bother looking in SAMPLES.
In the XY4 directory, DIR *.KBD or DIR \XY4\*.KBD returns nothing. Ditto DIR
*.INT. Actually, there are no files, such as startup.int or *.kbd, in the
XY4 directory. Where the devil are they?

Easily Baffled,

Charles

----- Original Message -----
From: Yo Intl. YK 
To: ; 
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Long Lost XPL Routine [was: young for life}


> At 11:38 AM 10/20/01 -0500, Young For Life Products, Ltd wrote:
> >The problem is that, for some reason, I am finding the documentation for
XY4
> >opaque. The way it comes out of the box, it does not act like XY3 in many
> >ways. XY3 was always self-evident to me; I got along fine with it, but I
> >seem to have some sort of block with XY4.
>
> Funny, I never felt that way. I thought XY4 came across immediately as XY3
> with a lot of dressing around it. I did not like all of it, but some of
the
> features are just too good to ignore.
>
> >I'm not very smart with computer
> >programming and setup; here's a question that I am sure you will find
> >incredibly stupid, but, what the hell, I've gotten used to admitting my
> >stupidity as I've gotten (much) older: I can't find the damn startup.int
> >file or the keyboard file in my XY4. I know how to rewrite the
startup.int
> >file for XY3, but for some reason I'm having a devil of a time making
heads
> >nor tales of XY4. I would dearly love to change the define functions back
to
> >F1 and F3, etc.
>
> I really do not see your problem. Go to the XY4 directory and type "dir:
> *.kbd" to see what the current keyboard file is called.
> Then simply rename it and put your current XY3 keyboard file in its place.
> You can work immediately, and XY4 will behave exactly as your beloved XY3
> did. OK, some fiddling around will be be necessarily later to get full
> functionality, but as I remember I had no problems whatsoever to work
> immediately with XY4.
> I would be the last person who would want to change keyboard habits. In
> fact, my XY keyboard is adjusted to use all the old WordStar commands,
> which I learned so many years ago and certainly do not intend to un-learn!
>
>
>
> -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo