In case anyone is following my travails with Win 7, things have improved. Using the Shared folder was the problem--XY has to be within virtual C:. I installed the Windows 98 version of DOS courtesy in Virtual PC 2007 of our fellow DOS word-processor enthusiasts. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/virtualpc.html#usedos I also installed Kari Eveli's DOS Additions. http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html I copied the entire contents of my XY folder into Virtual PC's (emulated DOS) C: drive by making my XY folder an .iso and having Virtual PC "capture" it, then copying all of the files. XY4 now appears in a fixed-size window that I am going to try to tweak, but it's perfectly readable. CLIP.EXE appears to be a lost cause, but the Edit menu of Virtual PC has a Paste function that pastes from Windows into XY--with a rather amusing simulation of slow typing, apparently so as not to move too quickly for DOS. (Too bad M$ never figured out how to program CLIP.EXE.) The Copy function doesn't transfer XY text out into Windows, but most of what I used CLIP for was the inbound direction. All in all, this might actually work out. Jon Pareles --- On Sat, 7/21/12, FreeLists Mailing List Manager <ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In This Issue: > Re: XY4 in Win7-64 > Re: XY4 in Win7-64 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:20:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jon P <xywrite4@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: XY4 in Win7-64 > > I have installed Virtual PC 2007 and a DOS machine (6.22) > inside that, along with the dosadds virtual disk. > > I have added my C:\XY directory as a shared folder called > drive X: > > When DOS loads a C:> prompt I change directory to X: and > then run editor.exe (XY4). Startup.int and > Settings.DFL are the portable versions. > > XY4 takes many, many long minutes to load, and sometimes it > just hangs. Doing something as formerly instantaneous as > calling a file or using the thesaurus hangs again, though it > eventually gets there. > > I suspect it has something to do with the paths to Startup, > Settings and the thesaurus, but I don't quite understand how > paths work within Virtual PC. > > So a couple of questions: > 1) How do you load your XY into the Virtual PC DOS window? > 2) What paths are in your STARTUP.INT and SETTINGS.DFL > files? I'll try hard-coding them again in case that's what's > hanging up Virtual PC, but I don't know whether they should > be C:\XY or C:\X or something else. > > Any help appreciated. > > Incidentally, besides the CLIP.EXE problem, DOSBox gets > fuzzy type when I use my larger window (though it's sharp > again in "fullresolution" 1024 x 768. > > Thanks to all. > > Jon Pareles > > > > > > From: "Kari Eveli" <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > As I said earlier: > > There other possibilities you might want to explore: > > Running Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7 (the blog of V PC > > developer at MS): > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/08/19/running-virtual-pc-2007-on-windows-7.aspx > > This contains the pros and cons quite extensively. > > > > I would suggest to skip the XP mode altogether and run > a > > separate Virtual PC 2007 program with DOS 6 installed > in it. > > Select the 64 BIT/setup.exe > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4580 > > > > DOS applications run very well under this environment. > > > > > How to install DOS additions, see my page and look for > the > > "DOS Additions" download (MS-supplied version is not > > compatible with DOS). > > http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kari Eveli > > > ------------------------------ > > From: "Kari Eveli" <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: XY4 in Win7-64 > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:41:39 +0300 > > >I suspect it has something to do with the paths to > Startup, Settings and the thesaurus, but I don't quite > understand how paths work within Virtual PC. > > Paths work just like normal DOS. Try using Xy in the VPC C: > partition to see if the problem resides in the shared disk. > You might try to point the VPC x: disk to a folder with a > DOS-compliant path like C:\disk on the host machine. > > Actually I am using Nota Bene 3.0 DOS (= a Xy3+ variant) > under VPC 32-bit on Win XP 32-bit. NB is a bit slow to start > compared to Xy and it takes about 3 seconds. My Xy4 copy > takes 1-2 seconds to load. The performance should be > comparable to a Pentium-class standalone DOS machine. Using > an alias X: disk makes no difference in my case. > > Try other DOS software to see if the problem lies in the VPC > installation or if it is your Xy installation. > > Best regards, > > Kari Eveli > LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) > lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx > > *** Lexitec Online *** > Lexitec in English: http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html > Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of xywrite Digest V4 #78 > **************************** > >