I just saw reference to this in the latest Xy Digests. Can someone provide a
link to download. I'm using Boxer, which is fine, but vDosMac.app sounds better.
Many thanks,Lisa Lisa Kleinholz
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Subject: Re: vDosPlus XyWrite 3.00 – first build based on the current Autumn
From: Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:37:27 +0300
Jordan,
Thank you for using the installer. If there are no major technical
reasons to keep updating the Winter '15 branch (I have not seen any so
far), the version 2.01 will be the last one that sports the Winter '15
vDosPlus.exe. Beginning from version 3.00 only Autumn '16 vDosPlus.exe
will be used in the installers. You can, of course, manually install
another version of another branch (depending on the availability of such
versions) on top of the installation. This may entail minor
incompatibilities with the documentation (manual.txt, config.txt, etc.),
so you have to copy Wengier's readme.txt and refer to it for details and
fix things manually in config.txt.
Latest downloadable installers:
http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/vDosPlus300_Setup.zip ;(Autumn '16)
http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/vDosPlus201_Setup.zip ;(Winter '15)
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx
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11.10.2016, 18:41, J R FOX kirjoitti:
Thanks very much, Kari.
So, both branches are receiving a similar installer treatment ? (From
you ?)
I installed the last one (15 branch, I believe -- it was 2.0) on an
office desktop, and the procedure went smoothly, so you've clearly done
a good job with the installer, I'd say. That should not be minimized,
as it's hard to anticipate everything at the user end, and I'm sure
there must have been plenty of things that could go wrong with it. I
have not had a chance to try out any printing yet. This is our
"satellite" office, and I won't be back there until the end of the
week. We have an HP laser and a wireless HP Deskjet there.
Jordan
Let me note that, in my fairly intensive testing, XyWrite 4 and the
Jumbo U2 runs very nicely in the 2016.10.01 (a/k/a Autumn '16) build
of vDosPlus. I've "migrated" myself to this branch, and recommend that
U2 users consider doing the same. If you do (or even if you don't), be
sure to grab the latest (10/8/2016) update to U2 at
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/. Lots of revisions and additions,
mostly but not exclusively vDosPlus-related. You can view the
changelog here:
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/changelog.pdf
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
Let me note that, in my fairly intensive testing, XyWrite 4 and the
Jumbo U2 runs very nicely in the 2016.10.01 (a/k/a Autumn '16) build
of vDosPlus. I've "migrated" myself to this branch, and recommend that
U2 users consider doing the same. If you do (or even if you don't), be
sure to grab the latest (10/8/2016) update to U2 at
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/. Lots of revisions and additions,
mostly but not exclusively vDosPlus-related. You can view the
changelog here:
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/changelog.pdf
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
Let me note that, in my fairly intensive testing, XyWrite 4 and the
Jumbo U2 runs very nicely in the 2016.10.01 (a/k/a Autumn '16) build
of vDosPlus. I've "migrated" myself to this branch, and recommend that
U2 users consider doing the same. If you do (or even if you don't), be
sure to grab the latest (10/8/2016) update to U2 at
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/. Lots of revisions and additions,
mostly but not exclusively vDosPlus-related. You can view the
changelog here:
https://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/changelog.pdf
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
Or . . . should I just use Kari's installer?
Carl,
Would it be asking to much for you to list the steps to make the
transition from 2015 to Autumn?
Weirdly, when I unzipped the new U2 zip file, the U2 itself had no
date showing in Explorer. This meant that when I sorted on the Date
column, it didn't show up at the top, with the other new stuff.
... An easy way to be on the safe side is to make a copy of your
current vDosPlus folder with a different name and try the installer
on this copied folder. That way, if something goes wrong, you have
your previous system intact,
Alternatively, you could use the installer to install into a fresh
(empty) directory, and copy over any needed files (config, autoexec,
*.ttf) from the other directory.
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
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Harry,
If you have used the installer before, it would make sense to use it to
update your install. If not, something may go wrong when running the
installer to update the earlier (manual?) install. An easy way to be on
the safe side is to make a copy of your current vDosPlus folder with a
different name and try the installer on this copied folder. That way, if
something goes wrong, you have your previous system intact, and you can
test the result of the installer separately. It is advisable to use the
restore settings option to save time fixing things in the new alternate setup.
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/
12.10.2016, 18:32, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Or . . . should I just use Kari's installer?
Carl,
Would it be asking to much for you to list the steps to make the
transition from 2015 to Autumn?
Got tangled up in neurons trying to remember how to change color for
Defined text. Here's a section of settings.dfl:
; DD is number used to compute display of defined text
; Defined text does not display in this mode number
DF DD=46
I'm running the absolutely best Mac port for XY, crisp clean display,
prints with TY<cr> no questions asked, integrates also with Mac OS files,
so much faster than the setup I've used for years, DosBOX hosted.
It's Dr Mendelson's excellent vDosMac.app. Anybody need details there's a
couple of HTML docs in the package; I had about five days of tweaking then
got it. Perfect.
Anyway that line from settings, Defined text does not display in this mode
number, some algorithm integrating Define with the rest of the display,
but what's the math? How do I change it (in XyWrite natively)?
Thank you.
DD works on different math, as you discovered. I never decoded it, but you
can just experiment with different numbers, 0 -255, in SETTINGS.DFL. What I
did, and I recommend, is to define a block of text, try a DD, then re-load
Settings.dfl using a special keystroke to save and re-load of SETTINGS.DFL.
Instant feedback. Here is a pseudo-code version of what I use (gets the
cursor back to where it was):
nn=no,<,S,X,0,1,,,<,C,P,>,>,bx,s,a,q2,bx,l,o,a,d,
,S,e,t,t,i,n,g,s,.,d,f,l,q2,<,I,F,<,E,R,>,>,<,E,X,1,>,<,E,I,>,bx,j,m,p,
,<,P,V,0,1,>,q2,<,P,R, ,n,e,w, ,s,e,t,t,i,n,g,s,.,d,f,l,
,l,o,a,d,e,d,>,<,E,X,>,<,E,I,>
My actual code is part of a larger U2 frame, HBSA, that takes care of
this, saving and re-loading the U2, and regular saves--depending on the
file extension (.DFL, .U2, or not).
Regards,
Harry
Got tangled up in neurons trying to remember how to change color for
Defined text. Here's a section of settings.dfl:
; DD is number used to compute display of defined text
; Defined text does not display in this mode number
DF DD=46
I'm running the absolutely best Mac port for XY, crisp clean display,
prints with TY<cr> no questions asked, integrates also with Mac OS files,
so much faster than the setup I've used for years, DosBOX hosted.
It's Dr Mendelson's excellent vDosMac.app. Anybody need details there's a
couple of HTML docs in the package; I had about five days of tweaking then
got it. Perfect.
Anyway that line from settings, Defined text does not display in this
mode number, some algorithm integrating Define with the rest of the
display, but what's the math? How do I change it (in XyWrite natively)?
Thank you.
