[Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
Does anyone have information about the Budget QLiberator (or QLIB LITE) compiler? I have a query from someone who has a microdrive copy and wishes to use it from floppy disk or hard disk. So far the only information I have is from the QLiberator 3 manual which hints that the budget version could be configured during CLONE. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
As far as the 3.2 manual states (Page 4.4), it should be possible to execute the budget version from any kind of source, then type in the commandline. Page 14.10 discribes the use of QLIB_USE load_device, help_device, x_pos, ypos option_bits but it is not stated, if it is possible to use that with the budget version. I think, QLIB_USE is part of the QLIB_ext extension. A save way should be, to patch the budget program with e.g. CST's FILED, all mdv to flp. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones Does anyone have information about the Budget QLiberator (or QLIB LITE) compiler? I have a query from someone who has a microdrive copy and wishes to use it from floppy disk or hard disk. So far the only information I have is from the QLiberator 3 manual which hints that the budget version could be configured during CLONE. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
Erratum... it is part of QLIB_bin. - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt I think, QLIB_USE is part of the QLIB_ext extension. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
Thanks Ralf, I have forwarfded a copy of your reply (along with the qlib_ext/bin correction). He referred to the compiler as QLIB LITE, which I hope is the same as Budget QLiberator. Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator As far as the 3.2 manual states (Page 4.4), it should be possible to execute the budget version from any kind of source, then type in the commandline. Page 14.10 discribes the use of QLIB_USE load_device, help_device, x_pos, ypos option_bits but it is not stated, if it is possible to use that with the budget version. I think, QLIB_USE is part of the QLIB_ext extension. A save way should be, to patch the budget program with e.g. CST's FILED, all mdv to flp. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones Does anyone have information about the Budget QLiberator (or QLIB LITE) compiler? I have a query from someone who has a microdrive copy and wishes to use it from floppy disk or hard disk. So far the only information I have is from the QLiberator 3 manual which hints that the budget version could be configured during CLONE. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.122/2591 - Release Date: 12/28/09 19:32:00 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
NB: The commandline in the budget version just awaits a device_filename, e.g. flp1_test -obj flp1_test_obj The latter ( -obj xxx) gives the destination, so it should work ok from any source. The above creates a _wrk file (work file pass 1 of Qlib) on flp1_, then the object file (pass 2 of Qlib), then deletes the _wrk file on the source device. I do not know, if the budget version can compile in one pass. - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones Thanks Ralf, I have forwarfded a copy of your reply (along with the qlib_ext/bin correction). He referred to the compiler as QLIB LITE, which I hope is the same as Budget QLiberator. Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator As far as the 3.2 manual states (Page 4.4), it should be possible to execute the budget version from any kind of source, then type in the commandline. Page 14.10 discribes the use of QLIB_USE load_device, help_device, x_pos, ypos option_bits but it is not stated, if it is possible to use that with the budget version. I think, QLIB_USE is part of the QLIB_ext extension. A save way should be, to patch the budget program with e.g. CST's FILED, all mdv to flp. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones Does anyone have information about the Budget QLiberator (or QLIB LITE) compiler? I have a query from someone who has a microdrive copy and wishes to use it from floppy disk or hard disk. So far the only information I have is from the QLiberator 3 manual which hints that the budget version could be configured during CLONE. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.122/2591 - Release Date: 12/28/09 19:32:00 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
NNB: ;-) If there is a demand, I can OCR the complete 3.xx manual including the latest things about WHEN ERRor handling. I do not know, if this is still copyright material. Maybe one can lay his hand on Adrian Soundy (compiler module) or Ian Stewart (runtime module+manual). Would be good, if any kind of source still exist. BTW: Does anybody know, who Leon Jaeggi was? I have read this name a few times in the 80s, and he has done the bug reporting and testing for the authors of Qlib. Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
I never met him, but he was a businessman who also made a lot of use of networked QLs in his business in the early days (1980s). TT credits him in the TK2 updates list for mods to the network code. I think Roy Wood was in contact with Ian Stewart for a while and did try to get the compiler updated, but it came to nothing IIRC. The last released version was v3.36. Dilwyn - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator NNB: ;-) If there is a demand, I can OCR the complete 3.xx manual including the latest things about WHEN ERRor handling. I do not know, if this is still copyright material. Maybe one can lay his hand on Adrian Soundy (compiler module) or Ian Stewart (runtime module+manual). Would be good, if any kind of source still exist. BTW: Does anybody know, who Leon Jaeggi was? I have read this name a few times in the 80s, and he has done the bug reporting and testing for the authors of Qlib. Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.122/2591 - Release Date: 12/28/09 19:32:00 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator
I just have found a one year's email address from Adrian Soundy in New Zeeland. He had a company called Liberation Software Ltd. (sic!) there and had released a Dial-Up program for Windows in 2005. Meanwhile the site is offered for sale. Maybe I get an answer. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones I never met him, but he was a businessman who also made a lot of use of networked QLs in his business in the early days (1980s). TT credits him in the TK2 updates list for mods to the network code. I think Roy Wood was in contact with Ian Stewart for a while and did try to get the compiler updated, but it came to nothing IIRC. The last released version was v3.36. Dilwyn - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Budget QLiberator NNB: ;-) If there is a demand, I can OCR the complete 3.xx manual including the latest things about WHEN ERRor handling. I do not know, if this is still copyright material. Maybe one can lay his hand on Adrian Soundy (compiler module) or Ian Stewart (runtime module+manual). Would be good, if any kind of source still exist. BTW: Does anybody know, who Leon Jaeggi was? I have read this name a few times in the 80s, and he has done the bug reporting and testing for the authors of Qlib. Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
