Msg: Re: My visit at the NotaBene List

O.K., good to know. So, it's probably a waste of time trying to "XyWrit-ize" latter day NB extensively, as once may have been possible.

I do think there are enough features uniquely present in recent NB_Win so as to justify maintaining a license to that also. (Not to mention the version explicitly for Apple -- and perhaps also Linux ?) New features continue to be added, and it remains under active development.

Jordan

From: John Paines
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: My visit at the NotaBene List - evangelizing vDos-lfn

Haven't tested the latest versions, but the early releases of NBv10 sustained almost no xywrite continuity (much less so than NB9, which was already wanting in compatibility), and they wouldn't give hope that more compatibility was coming in the future.

Fortunately, vdos emerged around about the same time and now, with vdos-lfn, it's better (at least to my mind) than xywrite ever was under DOS or XP.

From: J R FOX
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: My visit at the NotaBene List - evangelizing vDos-lfn

Kari,

I would be curious to know how this may be received. In the past, it has been remarked that the NB constituency is less technically inclined or adept than the membership of this list. Historically, that possibly hindered certain efforts, such as customizing NB or applying XPL to it. What with the recent major overhauls of NB, the program may have left the (once ?) core "Xy engine" so far behind that any lineal relationship is now scarcely detectable ?

Jordan