Welcome to the XyWrite Discussion Group
An Informal Mailing List for Users of the XyWrite Word Processor
The XyWrite Discussion Group promotes the exchange of information and technical advice among users at all levels of experience. It is unaffiliated with The Technology Group or its successor, which owns and licenses XyWrite.
The Discussion Group operates from the list server at the Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts at the University of Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1994 by Professor Nathan Sivin, of the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University. Currently, it is run by Carl Distefano. The archives of the mailing list are fully searchable.
To send a message to the list, you must first subscribe. To subscribe, retrieve files, search the archives, and suspend or cancel your subscription, e-mail the appropriate command to the U.Penn. List Processor,
<LISTPROC@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>(consult the table below).New subscribers receive a copy of the Welcome Message, a guide to participation in the list. Please save it for future reference -- or, better still, bookmark this page.
Messages for distribution to other subscribers should be sent to
<XYWRITE@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>. Subscribers are asked to observe basic rules of netiquette, particularly those pertaining to e-mail and mailing lists.Important: Please configure your mail program to send messages in plain text: no HTML, no attachments. Need help? Click here and follow the link for your mail program.XySearch Has Arrived!
Thanks to the heroic labors of Robert Holmgren, it is now possible to search the XyWrite message archives using keywords or Boolean searches. The archives are complete from 1994 onward, and include a selection of earlier messages, going back to 1991, from the XyQuest Information Line, Henry Kisor's Word Processing BBS and CompuServe (CIS). Anyone who might possess a cache of old messages from the XyQuest BBS, CIS, RIME, Wicked Scherzo, or the Word Processing BBS, bearing on either XyWrite or Nota Bene, is encouraged to write Robert directly. We'd love to fill in gaps from 1989-1994. XySearch is a service of XyWWWeb (http://www.serve.com/xywwweb).
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| Request | Command to Send to the List Processor <listproc@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Leave Subject line blank |
| Subscribe | subscribe xywrite your name here |
| Unsubscribe | unsubscribe xywrite |
| Receive copies of your own posts | set xywrite mail ack |
| Decline copies of your own posts | set xywrite mail noack |
| Receive messages once daily in digest form | set xywrite mail digest |
| Suspend mail | set xywrite mail postpone |
| Resume mail | set xywrite mail ack|noack|digest |
| Get archive directory | index xywrite |
| Search the archives | search xywrite search_term |
| Retrieve a file from the archives | get xywrite filename |
| Get a list of subscribers | recipients xywrite |
Page rev. 2005-11-05