Re: XyWrite 4 and Win98 2nd Ed.

[Nicholas Clifford clifford@xxxxxxxx]

Fritz Casey-Leininger wrote:

> Soon after receiving the reply from Nick Clifford on using Xy4 with Win98
> 2nd edition, I discovered another solution. I discovered that I had a
> "PIF" (program information file) for Xy4 that must have been created the
> last time I did a complete install several years ago. It showed up as a
> "shortcut" in my Xy4 directory. Actually I had two of them that were
> identical, except that one was labelled Xy4 and the other was labelled
> "editor". I now remember using one of them to access editor.exe in earlier
> versions of windows. It controls things like memory allocation. So if you
> can find one from an earlier Xy installation and copy it to your Xy
> directory it can take care of your difficulties in running under Win98 2nd
> edition. I believe the most important part of the file is the memory
> allocation for expanded and XMS memory. Both of these are set to 1024. If
> you don't find such a file, you can "explore" your start menu and find the
> shortcut for MS-DOS. Copy that shortcut to your Xy4 directory, right click
> on it. Go to properties, click on the program tab. Change "cmd line" to
> editor.exe and working directory to your Xy directory. Then click on the
> "memory" tab and change the XMS and EMS memory allocations to the values
> above. Then use that file to start editor. That should make Xy work just
> fine, but there are other properties that I haven't played with that may
> make it work better.
>
> Fritz Casey-Leininger

 Sorry to bother you, but when you say that Xy4 works fine, do you mean that
you have discovered a way to make it load in Win98 without waiting 50 seconds
or so for it to show up on screen? I have tried changing the memory properties
as you suggest, but I still have to wait for the program to load the first
time. After that, I can go in and out of XyWrite as quickly as ever, until I
turn the computer off or restart it, and then the same delay takes place.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Nick Clifford