Re: Windows 7, again - tips and tricks

[Jon P xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Nice, Carl. START works in both approaches. Even with the Explorer window open, there's no freeze with either 1) or 2). Typing "exit" in the DOS window goes back to XY and leaves Explorer open. 

Martin, why not just put LaTeX into XP Mode's virtual desktop as well? You can probably even keep
your old key combination. At some point you'll have to export the file to Win7, but you can do that
with my key combo in XY, and no doubt XP Mode offers other ways. 

By the way, while Googling around I saw that only Win7 Professional runs XP Mode. But if you have a
lesser Win7 you can run XP Mode via VMWare--no need for an XP installation disk. 


http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/megadots/vmware.htm

Jon Pareles 

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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:33:49 -0500
From: Carl Distefano 
Subject: Re: xywrite Digest V5 #109


What happens if you use the START command? Two things to try:

1) At the DOS prompt, instead of EXPLORER, START 
EXPLORER. I suspect you'll still get the freeze, but maybe not. 
But how about:

2) On the Xy CMline:
    DOS/NV/Z /C CMD.EXE /C START EXPLORER

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx


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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:10:18 -0500
From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
Subject: Re: xywrite Digest V5 #109


On 11/8/2013 3:15 PM, Jon P wrote:
> But...why would you want to do that?

I use XyWrite almost exclusively to edit files that I will subsequently
export as LaTeX or HTML files.  To export and process a file I press a
key combination in XyWrite that executes something like
dos/nv/x/z /c cmd.exe /c cp 
where cp is the external program that will process the file and
 is the active file in XyWrite.  In XP, the program cp is
launched (creating the LaTeX file, compiling it, and opening it in a
viewer, for example) and control is passed back to XyWrite.

I could alternatively run the external program manually.  But then I'd
have to click a few times to launch the program and type the name of the
file I want it to process.  The way I have things set up, I press only a
single key combination in XyWrite to initiate the process.

Martin
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