Miscellaneous Downloads [a «XyWWWeb» page]
XyWrite-Related Files
XyWWWeb Jumbo U2 – latest release
Other downloads
- ANSI1252.ZIP Helper files for ANSIfied XyWrite
- BX.ZIP A tutorial on function BX: “blind execution” of commands in Xy4 and later
- CTRLCHAR.ZIP CTRLCHAR.TXT: Classic (and essential) monograph on XyWrite control characters
- goxy.zip Robert Holmgren’s goxy.exe utility for switching focus/sending virtual keystrokes
- RCI.PDF Help file for RCI: Regular expression (regex) search-and-replace for XyWrite 4 (included in the Jumbo U2)
- RTF-ZIP.EXE Xy-to-RTF conversion for Xy3 and Xy4 (self-extracting archive)
- IBMDICTS.ZIP Collecton of IBM spelling dictionaries (*.DIC)
- SOWPODSX.EXE Scrabble SOWPODS Dictionary word|regex look-up for U2 frame SOWPODS
- TESTDD.PM XPL aid for setting value of default DD, which controls color of defined text and command triangles
- TESTMODE.PM XPL aid for setting text MoDes (normal, bold, underline, etc.) to desired colors
- UnstickKeys.zip Tool to invisibly "unstick" shifting keys stuck in the Down position (possibly useful in DOS emulation environments such as vDosPlus and DOSBox-X)
- winstart.zip Alternate method for launching Windows programs and commands from XyWrite: ReadMe
- woozley.pdf Mary Bernard’s obituary of Nota Bene luminary Tony Woozley
- XPL.PDF XyWrite Programming Language (XPL) User’s Guide
- Xy4-Default-Colors.png XyWrite 4 default colors
- XPLENC.ZIP XPL Encode|Decode modules
- XyWrite 4 Guides
- Xy3-disks.zip
XyWrite III+ installation-disk images (updated 2022-10-12 to fix corrupted disk-image file)
- Xy3-plus-guides.zip XyWrite III+ User Guides
- Welcome Guide
- Installation Guide
- A la Carte Menus Installation Guide
- Command Reference
- DCA Conversion Guide
- xywrite.com.zip XyWrite 3 and 4 program files from the now defunct xywrite.com site
- xywrite2.zip XyWrite II+ (v1.10) program files
- XyHistory.zip XyWrite lore in a dozen TeXTs|PDFs
Non-XyWrite
Windows and DOS
- GNU Aspell Win32 version 0.50 setup
- Aspell documentation Combined into a single TeXT file
- CalMaster 2000 The incomparable calendar program for DOS (abandonware)
- ClipDecode.exe Base64-decode text from the Clipboard
- ClipEncode.exe Base64-encode text to the Clipboard
- CopyWithTimeStamp.exe Copy file(s) to long filename(s) showing file's last-modified date and time (backup/versioning tool)
- ctimer.exe Command-line timer for Windows commands
- DI.exe Drive Info command (Windows)
- dirz.exe "Lazy" DIR command for Windows
- GenPass.zip Generate a strong password and save it to the Windows clipboard
- getpw.zip A tiny Window utility for generating strong passwords
- msgbox.exe GUI message-box utility for Windows
- msleep.zip Two “sleep” utilities for the Windows command line (msleep.exe, waitRun.exe: ReadMe)
- sowpods.exe Scrabble SOWPODS Dictionary word|regex look-up
- TalkTock.exe TalkTock, a talking clock with multilingual capabilities
- TimeIn.exe World time for the Windows command line
- UNIQUE.BAT.txt Windows BATch file technique for generating unique temp file names
- Updater.exe File updater, with logging option, for the Windows command line [usage summary]
- Vane.exe METAR weather reports from airports around the world
- VPT301.ZIP VGA Palette Tool for DOS, freeware from clySmic software (Ralph Smith)
- WinListInfo.zip List copious information on open windows, including invisible ones, and their processes
- WinRun30.zip WinRun v3, a customizable “Run” dialog: create your own Windows commands (ReadMe)
- wordlist.exe English word|phrase lookup (more extensive than sowpods [q.v.])
- xencode/xdecode Human-readable encoding|decoding for binary files (based on XPL encode|decode; fast implementation for Windows)
- XSTART eXtended Start command: ShellExecute for the Windows command line (ReadMe)
Selected E-Texts
- EB1911.ZIP Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition (1911), Project Gutenberg/Internet Archive (97 MB zipped, 265 MB unzipped) (compare EB1911W.ZIP, below)
- EB1911W.ZIP Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition (1911), Project Gutenberg/Internet Archive -- line-wrap version (line breaks removed, paragraph breaks retained), named with the .ECY extension for searching with U2 frames ECY and ALL (93 MB zipped, 258 MB unzipped)
- LEXFILES.ZIP Package of dictionary/thesaurus files (*.LEX) for searching with U2 frames LEX, SYN, DCT, REF and ALL (37 MB zipped, 108 MB unzipped)
- KJV.zip King James Version of the Bible, and Apocrphya (eBible.org) (1.6 MB zipped, 5.3 MB unzipped)
- Shakespeare.zip Shakespeare, Complete Works (Project Gutenberg) (1.9 MB zipped, 5.5 MB unzipped)
- WRNPC12.TXT Tolstoy's War and Peace (Maude translation) (Project Gutenberg) (3.2 MB)
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