1) The last time I checked (some time ago), XySearch for the list was offline, so please excuse the fact that I probably inquired about this at some time in the past. It was my impression that NB could import, further edit, and then print Xy files: at least for Xy-4, not at all sure about Xy-3. I'm pretty sure that I must have printed out a few Xy-4 files with NB, as that was one of the main reasons why I bought Nota Bene at all -- to be able to print with contemporary and USB printers. Well, I just saw something that I know I've seen before: trying to open a Xy-3 file, at which point what I see on screen looks like very tiny gibberish that would need magnification times around a factor of 20, before I could have any idea what it might be. So, either I can't do this at all with Xy-3 documents, or I am missing something important here. A wild guess would be that it may have something to do with the Xy-3 documents being formatted with PT tables for -- in this case -- an early HP-LJ printer, and that NB is trying to render it as Arial 12, or whatever its default happens to be. Is there some simple way to compensate for this ?
I seem to recall NB-Win being able to convert To or From various formats, or that it would ask you what the format was of a document you were trying to open or import. But that was many versions ago, perhaps predating the 64-bit compatibility, and I'm not seeing that option now.
2) I'm trying to get some VDosXy syntax right in the Autoexec file.
quoting from the example file:
rem Set other shared directories as desired;
rem Examples:
rem Note: Trailing "\" is required!
rem -----------
rem USE X: X:\
rem USE X: C:\Xy4\
rem USE Y: C:\XyDocs\
USE C:C:\
Is there or is there not supposed to be a space after the first "C:", as in the rem lines ?
Or does it not matter ?
I also want to reference several directories on a J:, so would I add this
USE J: J:\
But this can't be done in a single, compound USE line ?
I'm also confused a bit in regard to the %path% thing in the PATH line.
(Too much basic stuff we too easily forget . . . . )
3) I will probably have to read up through a bunch of past List messages, in regard to just what this DOSPRINTER thing can or cannot do, and how. I'd like to be able to connect a printer that at least emulates HP-LJ and to print through this VDosXy setup -- even if I get a viable answer to question 1 above.
Jordan