limping along with Xywrite

[Doug Stewart stewart@xxxxxxxx]

I got your e-mail address from the Technology Group just now, and I'm hoping
someone at your end can help me.

I've been a freelance writer for 16 years, and I've been using Xywrite the
whole time (legally, too), Atex before that, and I hate the idea of changing.

Here are my two questions. If you can direct me to answers on the web,
that's as much as I need.

1. Does anyone have a printer driver that will let me use Xywrite 4.014 for
DOS with a NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer? The ASCII printer driver on
my install disk almost works, but not quite. (The files I normally print,
by the way, are paragraphs of 100-percent text, no fancy stuff other than
occasional italics.)

2. How do I take a text document I've created in Xywrite and shape-shift it
into Windows, suitable for e-mailing to editors? I know people must ask you
this all the time, but I really am a klutz when it comes to Windows. I hate
it. I've got all these stupid "Dummies" books lying around the floor of my
office here, and they're not helping me.

Unfortunately, I'm just a freelance writer, not a programmer. I am an
excellent touch-typist, however, so I'm not entirely incompetent.

I look forward to any tips you can suggest.

--Doug Stewart.