Re: Revised installer for XyWin

[Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Encouraged by this, I also tried both the installers. It seems that the 
autoexec.bat method has been abandoned, and the PATH16 variable has 
taken its place. At first, I did not get the speller to work, but after 
a logout or restart, it worked. Shouldn't there be some indication of 
the need to reboot or at least to log out in order of the setting to be 
in use.
There was talk about the printing subsystem. I am not sure what the 
present state of development of this is. What works and what does not? 
At least I got into trouble when I tried to change the printer using the 
menus. The program crashed (see attachment) and could not be restarted 
without a total reinstall.
Still, overall this is an impressive seamless way to run Win 3.1 and 
XyWin. (I have added links to Edward's page and otya128's on my XyWrite 
Utilities page (http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html)).

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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David Garwood wrote:
> I tried the revised installer and it seems to work perfectly. Installed 
> it right over my existing install.  The help files, speller and 
> thesaurus all work as they should and it retained all my previous 
> settings,such as the degree sign etc. in a modified keyboard file.  I 
> think it's ready to go live!  Good work Ed.
>
> Dave Garwood
>
> ps. This is on a Win10 system.
>
> On 1/22/2020 2:19 PM, Edward Mendelson wrote:
> > I've updated the installer I put together for XyWrite for Windows. It 
> > now sets the path correctly in otvdm, and it intercepts the and 
> > explains the error that may occur if XyWin crashes because you didn't 
> > allow the installer to turn on the otvdm Font Enumeration limit setting.
> > It also backs up a few files that you may have changed in an existing 
> > installation and it offers to restore those files after it reinstalls 
> > XyWin. It also creates a folder called "OriginalFiles" that contains 
> > the original versions of those files that you're likely to change, 
> > with your name and the actual XyWin program path already baked into them.
> > As always, this comes with no warranty, and if you use it to install 
> > XyWin on a system that already has XyWin installed, absolutely back up 
> > your existing version first!
> >
> > Download link:
> >
> > www.columbia.edu/~em36/XyWinInstall.exe

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