Re: XyIII+ in WinXP

[Mark Garvey mark.garvey@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, John. Your note just arrived. I'm good to go on the full-screen
mode, I think. Thanks for the input.

John M. R. Bruner wrote:
> At 08:30 AM 7/13/2007, Mark Garvey wrote:
> > Well, that couldn't have been easier. I followed the instrux, created
> > a shortcut, and voila. It's coming up in a small-ish window that I'm
> > unable to resize. I'd be interested in hearing how to run it
> > full-screen, or at least in a larger screen than it's running in now
> > (I'm on a 14-inch laptop, and the Xy window is taking up about a
> > quarter of the screen.
> > After not running Xy for at least three years, it's interesting how
> > quickly some of my keyboard shortcuts came to mind. Told you those
> > neural pathways were burned in.
> > Thanks again, and any pointers about changing screen size, fonts,
> > etc. would be appreciated.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Get to Editor in the usual fashion:
>     From start menu, click command prompt
>     cd c:\xywrite (or whatever is the directory name for your XyWrite)
>     editor
> At this point, try alt plus enter and you should get a handsome,
> full-screen display of XyWrite. Just like the appearance of old!
> Somebody gave us this information a few weeks ago, and I am most
> appreciative. That tiny DOS window on top of the XP desktop was a
> real bummer.
> Before I was given the above gem, I could change the font size (in the
> DOS window) by the following method, but it didn't do a thing about
> improving the depth of the XyWrite text screen:
>     on start menu, L click on command prompt
>     R click on blue bar at top of DOS frame
>     L click on "properties".
>     in "font" menu, change 8 x 12 to 12 x 16.
>
> The other way is _much_ better!
>    
>
> jmrb