Miscellaneous Downloads [a «XyWWWeb» page]

XyWrite-Related Files

XyWWWeb Jumbo U2 – latest release

• XYWWEBU2.ZIP  The Jumbo U2
• U2EXTRAS.ZIP  U2 Extras (helper files)
• changelog.pdf  U2 changelog
• quick-u2.txt  Quick-Start instructions

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
  • Xy4_Making_the_Transition.pdf  XyWrite 4: Making the Transition (short guide on switching from Xy3)
  • Xy4_Installation_and_Learning_Guide.pdf  XyWrite 4.0 Installation and Learning Guide (searchable PDF courtesy of Kari Eveli)
• 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
• 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
• ctimer.exe  Command-line timer for Windows commands
• 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.zip  TalkTock, a talking clock with multilingual capabilities
• UNIQUE.BAT.txt  Windows BATch file technique for generating unique temp file names
• VPT301.ZIP  VGA Palette Tool, 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
• 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 for Windows

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 .LEX extension for searching with U2 frame LEX (93 MB zipped, 258 MB unzipped)
• LEXFILES.ZIP  Package of dictionary/thesaurus files (*.LEX) for searching with U2 frame LEX (23 MB zipped, 69 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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