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Posted by Cassius
Sep 18, 2009 at 04:12 AM
Jack Crawford wrote:
>While I have your attention, you mentioned earlier that GV had other
>command line switches. Would you happen to know what they are?
>Jack
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There are 15-20 switches (called parameters). You have the most important ones. Unless you have problems with key combinations or crashes, you don’t have use for the others until you are deeply into GV.
Again, I don’t recommend using it in XP. It seems to work better for Derek than for me in XP, even though we have virtually the same settings (at least all the ones we compared.). Also, the “compatibility modes” (95/ME/...) don’t seem to help at all. The only thing I now use it for is to get semi-confidential info from one file. The reason for that is that if anyone tries to look at it without GV it will look like a jumbled mess. For me, GV in XP is now more of a pain than a benefit and I once used it for EVERYTHING…even creating macros to print math equations.
Posted by Mainecon
Jul 5, 2010 at 04:15 PM
Yay!
Thank You! When I used /A to stop the splashscreen the program comes up in a
window rather than going full screen. I’ve been trying to do this for years!
Mainecon
Posted by Cassius
Jul 5, 2010 at 05:56 PM
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Posted by winter
Sep 7, 2010 at 09:57 PM
Hello all,
To my surprise, I have been able to get Grandview 2.0 working (after a fashion) on Win7 Professional without resorting to Virtual PC. Although the mouse does not work running it from the CMD prompt, this is not a deal killer for me. I have been able to cut-and-paste from Grandview to Word without problems.
I have been tending to run it in Dosbox, however, so the mouse _does_ work, albeit strangely, and I can work full-screen, which is GREAT. I get the outline like I want it, save the file. Then, when my file is ready to paste to Word, I go to the CMD prompt, reopen my file and cut-and-paste from there, a la DOS right mouse click.
(I have to Alt-TAB out of Dosbox to get the mouse to exit the Dosbox window, or even tp close down Dosbox, though. Disconcerting.)
I don’t imagine I’ll ever do much with Grandview (which to my surprise was downloadable after minimal Googling). However, I can see why people rave about it.
Regards,
Winter
Posted by winter
Oct 2, 2010 at 11:18 PM
I found a cmd.exe replacement that runs Grandview nicely on Win7, although it still won’t go full screen (I understand there’s a workaround for that, which I’ll post as soon as I find it.) The mouse works! Still can’t print, but oh well.
Download link for tcc/le, a very impressive product (and free) is: http://www.jpsoft.com/downloads/v11/tccle.exe