Hi, I would also suggest that your boot should give the choice of operating system right at the start and then boot the selected OS or default. Any extensions loaded before SMSQ/E are lost when SMSQ/E reboots the machine so if planning to load SMSQ/E anything loaded before then is a waste of time. As to the number of extensions most commercial programs dont use anything beyond TK2, Turbo toolkit, or Qlib runtimes. Any other extension you could hotkey load if needed when you run an application that needs them. One final suggestion, you could upgrade your hardware for more speed, Q40/Q60. I have a spare Q40 for sale and if interested contact me off this list.
Duncan Neithercut -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of thegilpins Sent: 21 December 2003 11:57 To: ql-users Subject: [ql-users] General Sort out It has suddenly become very quiet on the QL-users list - nothing to read for four days now. Has everyone logged off for Christmas? Here's a little something to occupy your minds and time between the season's festivities: Having purchased Launchpad and QWord as well as updated my SMSQ/E and QPac2, my system does not run as well as it used to. The basic principles have remained unchanged since I used two Aurora/SGC/QuBide machines at work and in order to keep all the database files (.dbf) up to date, these two machines were networked across the office - slow but very reliable I found. I have always started off with the obligatory "boot" file in which I LRESPR just about every toolkit etc imaginable and set up my ALTKEYs etc. I then provide the option of installing SMSQ - the Accounts package 'Cash Trader' would not run under SMSQ - hence the reason for giving the option. At the end of the "boot" programme, I EXed a QLiberated SuperBASIC programme called "GENERAL_MENU_obj" which includes a clock correction prog and then a menu to provide one of five options plus a 'Return to SuperBASIC' from which I could do all the things a basic machine could do, or something specific like 'Family Trees' - Genealogy - or 'Scouting'. Having retired 4 years ago, I have now decided to get rid of all the 'Company System' stuff and substitute all the Quanta stuff I have either inherited or have written during the last couple of years - at present "QUANTA" runs from floppies only. Over the last few years - gosh, how time flies once one has retired! - I have made various half hearted attempts to get all my QL stuff installed on the PC running QPC2 - now have 3V11 installed - only to find that any reference to networking (nfs_use etc) causes an error. So, the whole thing needs sorting out. Where do I start? (From the beginning! - "boot")? How do I know which toolkits and extensions are required for which programmes and which programmes load their own extensions? (Could this cause duplicate entries if the same toolkit is loaded twice, or use up unnecessary memory?) Is there any way of uninstalling an extension once loaded? Since SMSQ causes a complete reset when loaded, should I be loading toolkits after SMSQ or before (in case I want to use QDOS) or both ('cos if it's all lost when SMSQ loads it would only be loaded once anyway)? Has anyone got any pearls of wisdom to offer? Have a GREAT Christmas everyone and happy QLing in 2004 John Gilpin.
