RE: DIR not working right
- From: "Harry Binswanger" <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 10:14:02 -0400
Carl,
Yes P1 does the trick. Wonderful!
Thanks,
Harry
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From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carl Distefano
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:52 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DIR not working right
Reply to note from Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Wed, 28 May 2014
22:37:34 +0100
> Harry, you don't say which platform, in this instance, you're running
> Xy4 from. I had a similar problem when I ran Xy4 under VirtualBox
> using either W2K or XP as the intermediary. If it hadn't been for
> that, I would have stayed with VirtualBox. The problem doesn't exist
> under VMware. ...
I've seen this sort of flaky interaction between the Xy4 DIR command and
Windows since at least NT, maybe even Win95. I've always assumed that it's a
bug in either EDITOR.EXE or the Windows VDM, but never got annoyed enough to
try to craft an XPL-based workaround. If DIR gives me an unexpected result,
I usually just issue U2's
P1 DIR[/switch(es)] [filespec]<Helpkey> which imports the output of the DOS
DIR command (or any DOS
commmand) into XyWrite. It's fast and error-free.
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
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