[duxuser] Re: Duxbury 10.3

  • From: Steve Dresser <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:00:28 -0500

Tom,

Notepad is a good example of a text editor. In general, text editors are programs that can edit ASCII or ANSI text files, but do not attempt to work with various fonts, font sizes, or other complex formatting. By contrast, a word processor such as MSWord or Word Perfect generates files in a proprietary format, which means that they must be read by the program that creates them. So, for example, if you were to open a Word file in Notepad, you would see all sorts of strange characters which Word uses for its own purposes. On the other hand, a text file can be opened in any text editor, and will look the same regardless of which one you use. By the way, DBTW itself is actually a word processor since the files you generate with it contain special codes which are understood and processed by Duxbury.

Although this is by no means a complete explanation of the differences between a text editor and a word processor, I hope it will give you at least some understanding of why they are different.

Steve

On Monday 12/19/05 15:13 Tom Whalen wrote:
This might seem like a silly question, but when people say open this in a "text editor" what exactly does this refer too? MS Word, note pad, word pad or any word processor?
Thanks

David Holladay <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DBT 10.4 and 10.4 were issued on a CD-ROM with a license floppy disk. The
floppy disk contains a short text file that needs to be in the directory
that you are installing DBT on. There are several solutions:

1) A USB floppy drive is quite inexpensive. They are a real bargain on
e-bay. I have bought one for my home computer from e-bay.

2) Go to a computer with a floppy drive and print out a copy of the
textfile. Use a text editor and create a file with identical contents on
c:\duxbury on the new computer.

3) Copy the file onto other media, such as an e-mail attachment; USB memory
stick, or burn a cd-rom yourself with the tiny CD-ROM. For extra credit,
think of yet another way of doing it.

Install the main 10.3 CD-ROM into c;\duxbury. You will not be prompted for
a license floppy when the install program finds the file already there.

This is not an issue with DBT 10.5. Version 10.5 comes on a floppy with a
card with your serial number and a unique password.

Yes, if you find no other way that meets your needs of getting this file
onto your laptop, then you could purchase an upgrade to version 10.5

However, consider the USB floppy alternative again. Generally, you pay $30
between cost of the item and shipping (for s ome reason, there are many
people selling these directly from the orient to the US, so the shipping is
a considerable proportion of the final expense). I just did a search, there
are 456 auctions underway right now on E-Bay. Here is the current link:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=usb+floppy&category0=

Good luck.

-- David Holladay
(not responsible for any loses if you have any E-Bay problems)

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At 06:56 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I have Duxbury 10.3 software. The license disk is a floppy, and my laptop
>has only cd rom. Is there ay way I could purchase a license disk for this
>on a floppy, or do I just need to upgrade to the latest version?
>Thanks, John

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