XyWrite Problems

Jack Shafer (71011.3715@CompuServe.COM)
31 Mar 94 17:34:51 EST

Thanks much to Nathan Sivin for starting this discussion group. May he harvest
much RAM in the computer garden of life.

That said, I'm enjoying XyWrite for Windows, but want to enjoy it more. Can
anyone shed any light on these areas?

FAX PROBLEM

The beta version of X4W did a great job of sending faxes with WinFax, but for
some reason X4W 4.1 takes *forever* to print to the fax. My computer (486-50
with 8 megs of memory) takes 13 minutes to print a 45K file in XyWrite before it
dials and sends; the same file takes Microsoft Word only 2 minutes to print
before sending.

CLIPBOARD PROBLEM

My computer locks up any time I paste more than 150 words from the Clipboard. Is
anyone else having this problem?

ORGANIZER PROBLEM

I run Lotus Organizer all day, and often when Organizer is on top of XyWrite
when I minimize it, XyWrite goes nuts, beep and giving the error message that
its fonts can't be found. As it beeps, the text changes one line at a time into
a sans serif face. Nothing will stop the beeping until the only screen has
changed and usually I have to close XyWrite and open it again.

RANDOM HOUSE PROBLEM

If anyone out there using the Random House Dictionary/Thesaurus has figured out
a quick and easy way to hot key into and out of that program, I'd like to hear
from them.

Jack Shafer