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Hi John,
Thank you for your email—
As you said, I’m very interested in locating additional versions of editor.exe, full installation disks, and any related materials that people would be willing to share for the project. Your mention of having a large.
Below is the list of versions I’m still trying to track down. It’s based on my own research, so there may be minor errors, but most should be accurate. I’m interested in standalone editor copies or, ideally, complete disks — including minor updates and subversions
NABS Foundation
v1.0 / 1.1 v2.0 / 2.1
XyWrite III
v3.0 v3.05 v3.06 v3.1 / 3.11 v3.12 v3.15
XyWrite III Plus
v3.50 v3.51 v3.52c v3.52m v3.52r v3.53 v3.54a v3.54b v3.55a v3.55b4 v3.57A / 3.57B / 3.57C / 3.57D v3.58
Coyote (Internal Beta)
v3.90–3.96
IBM Signature (Project J)
v1.01–1.03 v1.04 v1.05
XyWrite 4 (XyQuest Return)
v4.0 v4.01 v4.010 v4.011 v4.012 v4.013 v4.014A v4.014L v4.015 v4.015-B v4.015-B2 v4.015-C v4.015L v4.015Q v4.015-O v4.016 v4.016A–D v4.017E v4.017-X
XyWrite for Windows (XyWin)
v1.0 v4.11 v4.11a v4.12j
If you happen to have any of these — or know someone who might — I would really appreciate hearing from you.
Best regards,
XYGHOST
From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of John Paines <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2026 3:55 PM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Reverse engineering - confirmed for version 3!
Could well be unnecessary at this point, but I remain a daily Xywrite III user, and have a large archive available to test -- long documents, complex formatting, lots of xpl programming, etc.
xyghost has inquired into versions. For this user, the one of choice is 3.55 because that's the last one which retained the "expandable" spelling feature -- a user-created and editable dictionary file which expands single letter (plus space) into a word or
lawsuit.
On Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 08:56:17 AM EST, Edward Mendelson <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And, yes, following Kari's and xyghost's advice, I now have the
newly-compiled 3.5 version working exactly as it should work.
Brilliantly well done, xyghost. This was simply unimaginable until now,
and it's clearly working as designed.
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