Edward,
The old version of installer did not make an autoexec.bat file in my
case. I ran it several times. The same thing today, no autoexec.bat
file. Am I downloading the same version you are uploading? (I use:
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eem36/OtvdmSetup.exe)
I seemed to get the speller working without the autoexec.bat.
EnumFontLimitation = 1 is in use, otherwise XyWin refuses to start.
The crash is normal XyWin behavior, it is not very stable and crashes
ever so often. It is the menus that are prone to produce unpredictable
results.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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Edward Mendelson kirjoitti 24.1.2020 klo 18:22:
Karl,
Thank you for that report. I've now made some fixes in the logic of the
installer, so maybe the problems you report won't occur with the latest
version.
1. The installer (both the one that was available yesterday, like the
one today) uses BOTH the autoexec.bat and PATH16 method. The installer
creates or modifies the file c:\otvdm\c\autoexec.bat and creates or
modifies the PATH16 variable. If it does either of these things, it
should prompt the user before it opens XyWin the first time, and the
prompt says that if XyWin can't find its speller, exit it and run it
again. I don't think it should be necessary to log out or restart, but I
could be wrong.
In the new version of the installer (posted today) I've fixed the logic
that writes the autoexec.bat file; the earlier version left in path
strings with two backslashes, which may have caused the problem.
2. Printing. The installer tries to test whether EnumFontLimitation = 1
is set in otvdm.ini, and, it it isn't, prompts you to do so. I know
XyWin locks up in many situations when that setting is not active in
otvdm.ini and you change printers. Could you let me know (1) whether
that setting is active (not REMmed out with a semi-colon) in your
otvdm.ini, and (2) exactly what you did that prompted the crash? I'm not
sure I will have any idea of how to fix it, but I'd like to see what's
happening.