Re: [Ql-Users] DM5 upsetting Dates in QPC2

[Dave Walker]

Bill,

Feeling fine now and traffic looks OK, so see you there.

Dave.

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> On 12 Jan 2017, at 16:47, Martyn Hill  wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob
> 
> Just to confirm that I too have been unable to run DM5 on QPC (v4) and saw 
> oddities around the date before it would hang QPC.
> 
> I didn't investigate to the same depth, but it appears to match your 
> experience.
> 
> Martyn.
> 
>> On 12/01/2017 15:35, Bob Spelten wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I was trying to get DiskMate5 to run in QPC2/QLE but ran into a serious 
>> problem.
>> It reported a wrong date but while the suggested date was correct my PC 
>> clock had been reset in the background to 18-Jan-2053, causing problems on 
>> the W$7 side.
>> In my QPC2/QLE this also froze SMSQ/E but not in my normal QPC2.
>> Also a previous QPC2 (v3.40/3.16) behaved the same.
>> 
>> I have used DM5 for GD2 sporadically before but never seen this bug.
>> Has something changed in SMSQ/E's date handling that is not working for DM5 
>> anymore?
>> Has anyone experienced this before?
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
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Re: [Ql-Users] QXL Card for Temporary Loan

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Derek,

If no one else comes forward, I could let you borrow mine.Where are you 
based?

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 On 15 May 2014, at 10:27, Derek Stewart de...@q40.de wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I would like to ask the temporary loan of a QXL Card, so that I can take a 
 copy of the QXL Glue (Altera) Chip.
 
 I have 8 QXL cards that I have nearly finished construction, but the code of 
 the QXL Glue chip seems to be missing.
 
 Once these QXLs have been constructed, I will sell them.
 
 -- 
 Regards,
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of tobias.froesc...@t-online.de
 Sent: 09 January 2013 11:00
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Building a netbook from Raspberry Pi
 
 
 
  I use a µHDMI-to-full adapter that I got from Amazon plus some
 standard, unmodified HDMI and USB cables.
 
  If you ask Google for Atrix Dock Raspberry Pi there's lots of
 references.
 So how did you connect yours exactly. I am unclear how you got power
 and usb. I thought hdmi was just video.
 
 Tony
 
 Tony,
 that was probably a bit misleading. I used the how-to as of here
 (Sorry, in German, in the customer feedback section):
 http://www.amazon.de/Motorola-A-860LAPDOCK-DE3A-Atrix-Netbook-
 Dock/dp/B004ZB8SYU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8qid=1357725324sr=8-2
 
 In a nutshell, the dock seems to detect the presence of a device
 through the HDMI port. If it doesn't detect anything there, it won't
 power its USB ports/Hub and screen. Some of the HDMI cables don't seem
 to connect all the necessary pins.
 
 I use a micro-HDMI (female) to HDMI (male) adapter I got from Amazon
 (The dock has a _male_ µHDMI) Those are hard to find and I can't find
 the one I have any more on amazon.de.
 
 This needs a bit of twiddling and a file to be able to get it where it
 belongs. Maybe another (smaller) adapter would fit better.
 From there i used a standard HDMI cable to the RPi. (This is something
 I'd like to change sooner or later - It's just too much cable and
 adapter stuff hanging around)
 
 From what I read through the internet, only the newer RPis (those
 without the polyfuses) will accept to be powered through their main USB
 ports. Mine does. When connected through the (standard, not the micro)
 USB ports, my RPI comes up and runs. Older RPis would need to be
 powered through their micro USB connector - Here you need a spliced
 cable from the USB port of the dock to both the RPis USB hub and its
 power connector.
 
 There's still a bit of tweaking to be done, as the RPi won't power down
 when the dock is, and currently it re-sets whin I close the dock's lid,
 HDMI sound is not working (yet), but that's minor issues I might or
 might not fix.
 
 Hope this helps.
 
 Regards,
 Tobias
 
 
On mine I used a micro HDMI female to Micro HDMI female adapter.  This has the 
advantage of getting it clear of the dock area which is rather cramped. I was 
then able to plug a short Micro HDMI to HDMI male cable into that which are 
rather easier to find.

Regarding the USB, then yes the newer Pi's can back-power through their 
standard USB ports.   If you have an older Pi with polyfuses on the USB ports, 
then the easiest thing to do is the 'PiPass' mod which connects the +ve and 
Ground wires of the micro USB and normal USB together on the Pi itself.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of John Alexander
 Sent: 17 October 2012 14:34
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
 
 I'm working away and typically after ordering a couple of Pis from CPC
 I get a very belated email from RS saying that they are shipping my
 order.. does any one know if this batch from RS is 512MB as well or are
 they behind on this one as well as everything else!?

According to the Raspberry Pi web site, all Pi's that shipped from Monday
onwards should be the 512MB model regardless of who it comes from.  Of
course the only real test is when it arrives!

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 --- On Wed, 17/10/12, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:
 
 From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
 Date: Wednesday, 17 October, 2012, 9:35
 
 On 17/10/12 09:33, Norman Dunbar wrote:
  It's definitely a Model B - it has USB (2) and Ethernet. Neither of
  which, the A has.
 Except, of course, the A has a single USB port.
 
 And, if you are interested, they are now made in Wales - if you buy
 from Farnell/Element 14. RS are still manufacturing in China.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Norm.
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Cadman
 Sent: 16 October 2012 21:35
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
 
 In message
 1350286344.22422.yahoomailclas...@web29404.mail.ird.yahoo.com, John
 Alexander acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk writes
 
 Hi John,
 
 I would be interested to know if your composite video connection works
 directly with the Pi.
 
 Connecting directly to the input on my TV does not work.
 
 Yet, I have found a 'work around' by connecting a Scart to Composite
 convertor plug. The latter I found was available for 1ukp at a local
 PoundLand.
 
 The display is then in BW.
 
 Sound is available, too, with a separate mini-jack plug to RCA phone
 plug at the Scart adaptor.
 
 Now I can what Pi is doing ... :-)
 
The default TV mode for the Pi is NTSC.   If you are getting BW output then
that probably means your TV does not know how to handled NTSC.  You can tell
the Pi to use PAL by adding an entry to the config.txt file in the boot
partition of the Pi as described at:
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_ConfigurationFile

The entry to get PAL output is 
 sdtv_mode=2
and there are also entries available to control things like overscan and
aspect ratio.

Dave Walker

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 Yes it has a composite output as well
 
 --- On Fri, 12/10/12, Bryan Horstmann b...@newlan.org wrote:
 
 From: Bryan Horstmann b...@newlan.org
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] My slice of Pi
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Date: Friday, 12 October, 2012, 15:09
 
 On 12/10/2012 02:38, q...@mcad.demon.co.uk wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Finally received my slice of Pi - the Raspberry Pi, from RS -
 today
 12th October 2012.
 
  I had to re-order, earlier in the Year, when my email address used
 was no longer working
 
  I also ordered a Type B Case, in white, and a 4GB SD Card with OS
 installed. Which all fits together by simple clip fittings on the
 injection moulding.
 
  Although, RS are posting the Pi PCB with a plastic protective
 casing,
 albeit in a translucent shade of raspberry pink!
 
  Umm ... like the early days of 'home computing', you have to put
 something else with it. I don't have an HDMI display, yet may be able
 use a DVI on my old TV. Then there is the need for a USB keyboard and
 mouse.
 
 My Pi is due soon; I've a USB keyboard, USB hub and card reader, and
 PSU.  The missing bit is a monitor.  I use a mono Philips on the QL,
 video input and have another later style Philips as spare.  Will the
 Pi
 work through the video input? Otherwise I have got video i/p on the
 TV.
 By then I hope to be able to get an SD card with a QL emulation; is
 anyone going to market one, please?
 
 Bryan H
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Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Cadman
 Sent: 16 October 2012 22:09
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
 
 In message
 59A6E99FBFBACC43AF19617ACDC7DBA95128A866@BXCEXCH01.boxclever.local,
 Neil Riley neil.ri...@boxclever.co.uk writes
 
 Hi Norman,
 
 If it is 256MB, then you have the 'Model A'.

No - it will be the 'original' Model B as opposed to the 'new' Model B.  The
Model A (model with no Ethernet and only one USB port) has not yet started
shipping although that is still expected to happen before Christmas.   It is
still expected to have 256MB of RAM rather than 512MB although I guess that
is subject to change depending on the price of RAM chips.

 
 Then again, the 'restriction' of one Pi per person has now been lifted.
 
 So, you can now have as many as you like .

That restriction has been lifted for some time (since early July).That
is one reason that there are now lots of 3rd party dealers supplying the Pi
as they can now get bulk supplies.

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 Also, as the SD Card is the OS source at present, then we can
 experiment with different flavours of OS on different Cards.
 
 Then we will be adding larger storage USB Hard drives, etc, and I guess
 we will have multiple boot options.
 
 Umm ... reminds me of doing all of that sort of thing with the original
 BBC Model and Sideways ROM boards and 5 1/4 disk drive for the
 software boot ... :-)
 
 
 Great, I now own a Model B- or is it a Model A+ ?
 
 Either way, I've been punished for being an early bird  :(
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
 [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
 Sent: 15 October 2012 10:31
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - Model B - 512 MB RAM
 
 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180
 
 If you don't have your Pi yet, when it arrives, you'll have twice as
 much RAM as I do. Enjoy!
 
 Cheers,
 Norm.
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of QL-MyLink (f/fh)
 Sent: 26 September 2012 16:59
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
 
 Greetings!
 
 I live in the UK and have a BT ADSL connection (400 metres by wire to
 the exchange).
 
 Generally, bandwidth was in the order of 6 to 8Mbps - usually the
 latter provided I did not switch of my router too frequently.
 
 Move over copper, glass has arrived.
 
 Stable reported speed (W/Xp system tray) for the past 3 days? 21.3Mbps.
 
 I like glass... and I had to tell someone. ;-)  [Also might be of teccy
 interest - eh?]
 
 Best wishes to all,
 
 Through the glass,
 
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Interesting you should say that - I am on cable (Virginmedia) and as it
happens my speed was doubled overnight from 10Mbps to 20Mbps (at no extra
cost to me).I can now get up to 120Mbps if I was prepared to pay the
premium for the extra speed.   

Talking to a friend, it appears that Virginmedia's current round of internal
network upgrades are preparing them to deliver speeds of up to 400Mbps to
consumers when the time is right.   I believe that is based on fibre
technology up to the street level, and then copper for the last leg into
customers houses.   I would not be surprised to see any new installations
starting to use fibre for that last hop as well assuming that is not already
happening.

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Re: [Ql-Users] in a PiQL so to speak (pun intended)

[Dave Walker]

John,

Been out all day today (and will be tomorrow as well) so a few days before I 
can look any further.

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On 15 Jul 2012, at 12:07, John Alexander acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 
 How much of it now works David?
 Do you get a certain amount of the emulator working or does it merely compile 
 and not really effectively work
 
 Ta for the beer BTW!
 
 John A
 
 
 
 On 11 Jul 2012, at 17:57, Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Has anyone been able to compile uQLx in Linux either the raspberry Pi or any 
 other ARM based processor, following through the reported errors and the 
 included documentation leads me to believe this is where the sticking point 
 is.
 
 I have tried alternatively to get WINE running on the Pi also, to see if 
 that would be another possible route, also without success. I am a very 
 green newbie to Linux so any suggestions would be appreciated.
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 I have obtained the source, but when I try to compile it I am getting errors. 
   I really need to find the time to sort out why!  
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] in a PiQL so to speak (pun intended)

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On 11 Jul 2012, at 17:57, Lee Privett lee.priv...@gmail.com wrote:

 Has anyone been able to compile uQLx in Linux either the raspberry Pi or any 
 other ARM based processor, following through the reported errors and the 
 included documentation leads me to believe this is where the sticking point 
 is.
 
 I have tried alternatively to get WINE running on the Pi also, to see if that 
 would be another possible route, also without success. I am a very green 
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I have obtained the source, but when I try to compile it I am getting errors.   
I really need to find the time to sort out why!  

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Re: [Ql-Users] Errors with uQLx on Raspberry Pi

[Dave Walker]

John,

My Raspberry PI shipped today, so I hope to be trying this myself over the 
weekend.  I am interested to hear if you resolve this issue, and if not I may 
be looking at it myself.

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On 24 May 2012, at 12:37, John Southern j...@sinoda.demon.co.uk wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 Is anyone able to assit or at least start me off on a general direction.
 I am trying to get the uQLx running on a slow (MK.all takes 160 seconds), 
 memory restricted Raspberry Pi with the Armel architecture.
 
 Following Javier's instructions from a message sent 10:17 27/11/2009 I edited 
 the config file to the gcc version I was using and commented out the line in 
 unixstuff.c for RTOP. I used gcc 4.1.3 although 4.4 gives an identical error.
 The install appears to run without throwing up errors although there are 
 plenty of warnings.
 
 When I try to start the emulator, the outline of the QL screen briefly 
 flashes 
 up on screen before I get the followinf error message
 
 pi@raspberrypi:~/bin$ ./qm 
 problem, stat failed : No such file or directory
 - MountPoint /dev/fd0 for device FLP1_ may not be accessible
 *** QL Emulator v0.81 ***
 release 2010-02-25
 
 Terminate on signal 11
 This may be due to an internal error,
 a feature not emulated or an 68000 exception
 that typically occurs only when QDOS is unrecoverably
 out of control
 FATAL error, PC may not be displayed correctly
 DebugInfo: PC=16c, code=adc7, SupervisorMode: yes USP=0 SSp=3 A7=3
 Register Dump:   Dn An
 0  0   0
 1  0   0
 2  0   0
 3  0   0
 4  0   0
 5  0   0
 6  0   0
 7  0   3
 pi@raspberrypi:~/bin$
 
 Regards
 John
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Lenerz
 Sent: 01 May 2012 17:33
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator
 
 
 There also seem to be some problems with C compiled progs, but I don't
 have many of those, I'll have to check.

I m guessing here, but I would think the most likely area to cause a problem
is the bit of code in the start-up module that tries to detect the processor
type and whether hardware floating point is supported as that relies on some
exception's being handled correctly and also some variations in instruction
behaviour between different processors in the 68K family.   That code is in
the proctype.x module from the LIBC library source.  Having said that I am
not sure that in most cases it would matter if the wrong answer was given as
long as the program did not crash in that code.

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Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

[Dave Walker]

On 17 Apr 2012, at 12:24, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:

 On 17/04/12 10:46, Norman Dunbar wrote:
 
 The compilation worked, but listed calls to strfnd as having the wrong
 number of arguments. I had three, as per online references, but it seems
 the definition in string_h only has two :
 
 strfnd(const char *, const char *)
 
 So, I fixed my code to remove the third (boolean) parameter, and
 compiled again.
 
 Which allowed it to compile ok, but running it (see below!) shows that it can 
 no longer use the LOCATE/CONTINUE commands to find data in the sorted field - 
 always returns no records found. The normal FIND command is ok.
 
 LOCATE uses strfnd() so I suspect it's been affected by the change to two 
 parameters from three..
 
 
 Checking the map file, I see _OSERR is undefined.
 
 I then changed all my own code to use errno_h and errno instead of
 _oserr, but that gave the same result, _OSERR is undefined.
 
 It may be because the DBAS library call fsd_open also sets _oserr on the
 event of any errors, so this last one might need some jiggery pokery to
 get around, but I'll appreciate some assistance on the remainder please.
 
 I'm still getting the undefined _OSERR error in the map file, but I noticed 
 that an executable was still being created. I took a chance and it runs ok! 
 Hence my ability to determine that LOCATE/CONTINUE (above) were not working.
 
 
 Interesting!
 
 
 Cheers,
 Norm.
 
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Norman,

The strfnd function is not a standard function in C so any you come across are 
implementation defined.  I am guessing that your code has one with different 
semantics to the library one (which if I remember correctly is based on the 
Lattice C implementation), so you need to have a #undef statement to hide the 
library implementation.   I would guess that the three argument version you 
mentioned uses the 3rd argument to define continue behaviour which is why the 
problem with LOCATE/CONTINUE.

The _oserr variable is different to errno.   The idea is that errno is used for 
standard errors and is part of the C standard while _oserr is used for ones 
that are specific to the implementation.   The standard _oserr variable is 
defined in the C startup module.   However since an extra underscore gets added 
when viewing at the linker level, I am guessing this means that your code 
refers to it without the leading underscore somewhere.   In this particular 
case you are getting away with it because it is a simple variable and not a 
label for executing code.

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Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
 Sent: 16 April 2012 16:08
 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
 Subject: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide
 
 Sorry, I've pulled this one out from the query discussion, maybe Dave
 Walker will notice it here as a new topic...
 
 On 16/04/12 15:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
   Ahem, excuse me!!!
  
   _*sulk*_
  
   :o)
 
 Sorry Dilwyn, couldn't resist! ;-)
 
 Anyway, back on topic - unusual for me I admit, but - I've had a look
 at the version of DBAs that I have, 2.12, and the C68 headers seem to
 be non-ansi format.
 
 It looks like c68 did away with the file ansi_h at some point long ago
 when it changed over to the default of being ansi compliant? Maybe?
 
 Anyway, it is with horror that I find that I can no longer compile the
 libguide or libadmin utilities under the current version of C68 - which
 is 4.5 Beta according to the c68 command.
 
 Does anyone have a version of DBAs that has ansi standard header files
 instead of the old ones please? I'd hate to be in the position of being
 called upon to maybe do some work on this program and being completely
 unable!
 
 Maybe I'll have to rewrite it in assembler for the PE! (I jest by the
 way!)
 
 
 
 Cheers,
 Norm.
 
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Norman,

I found an old copy of the ansi.h file.It did not look as though it did
much so you may well just be able to comment it out.   I think the
equivalent functionality is now built into the individual header files.   I
hope so as I do not believe I have a full set of the original header files
from that time.

Depending on the state of the code you may well have to relax the
warning/error levels to get the code to compile without errors.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Abacus file transfer PC to QL

[Dave Walker]

My TexTidy software can be used to convert files between the DOS and QDOS 
Abacus formats.   This then needs to be used with appropriate transfer software 
(e.g. DiscOver) to get the files from QDOS to DOS if not running an emulator 
that can do this directly.

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On 26 Nov 2011, at 10:15, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:

 
 On Nov 25, at 17:54 | Nov25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 
 Please give the procedure for converting Abacus files under 
 Psion 4 (DOS) to Abacus files running on QL (QDOS) and QPC2.
 The above is a query received by Quanta Helpline. Does anyone have 
 experience of transferring between these systems?
 
 I haven't done it that way around, but 'export' must be the way.
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Dilwyn's scanner

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Horstmann
 Sent: 09 October 2011 08:51
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Dilwyn's scanner
 
 On 08/10/2011 12:10, pjwitte wrote:
  On 07/10/2011 17:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
  
  But first, I have to find new drivers for my old Benq5000 scanner.
  The manufacturer's site lists no drivers for Win7 64-bit and the
  driver on CD does not work either, even using the compatibility
  assistant for drivers, so I may have to do this using the old PC :-(
  You may be able to load drivers and run your scanner in a virtual
  machine. I did that successfully with a device attached to  USB, for
  which there was no 64bit driver, in a VirtualBox machine sporting
 W2k.
 
  Per
 
 That's interesting. I tried the same trick with VMware for my scanner,
 but it wouldn't work and I was told that VMware relies on the host
 machine for peripheral drivers and other services.
 
 Bryan H
 UK
 

That is true for non-USB devices and also where you have USB devices that
you let the host OS take control of rather than the VMWare guest OS.
   
The VMWare USB support allows for a transparent pass-through mode and in
that mode you can normally use anything that the guest OS has drivers for.
To use this mode you need to be running the guest OS and it must have the
current focus when you plug the USB device in. 

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

[Dave Walker]

Bryan,

Not sure where that information came from!

My USB floppy works fine on my Note books PC under Windows 7.   I often use
it in conjunction with QPC, although it is also used directly from Explorer
under Windows 7.   I can also use the floppy from a VMWare VM with no issue
regardless of what OS the VM is running.

I wonder if that information is due to the fact that most modern machines
will not allow for booting from a floppy by default (not unreasonable as
they no longer have a drive fitted by default).   To enable booting from a
USB floppy will nearly always require the BIOS settings on the PC to be
adjusted from the defaults, but I have yet to encounter a PC that does not
allow that as long as one knows what you are doing.

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of BryanHorstmann
 Sent: 23 August 2011 16:40
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7
 
 On 23/08/2011 01:56, Norman Dunbar wrote:
  Snip.
 
  I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to
  access the floppies or not.
 
 I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is
 OK on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware).  But i'm told that W7 has no
 floppy support.  Can anyone confirm this?
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] FAO: Dave Walker - possible bug in C68?

[Dave Walker]

Norman,

You are right that there would normally be a space between the keyword and
the parameter value.   As a result of Marcel's comment I had a look at the
source and he is correct the current code assumes there is no space.   Easy
enough to fix now that it has been pointed out - although some extra code
would need adding to keep backwards compatibility.

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
 Sent: 27 May 2011 11:08
 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] FAO: Dave Walker - possible bug in C68?
 
 Morning Marcel,
 
  Try
  ex cc;'-c -v -tmpram1_ win3_source_test_c'
  Notice the lack of a space between tmp and ram1_...
 
 Yes, that works perfectly! Thanks. Shame I was following the cc_doc
 file
 which gives as an example -tmp ram1_ with a space. Sigh.
 
 I notice a number of the parameters appear to take no space while
 others
 do take a space. I never noticed how inconsistent this was in the past!
 
 Thanks again.
 
 Cheers,
 Norman.
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Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] [off-topic] Updates in Dave-land...

[Dave Walker]

Norman,

  How is that going?
 I actually downloaded the latest source code this very week and
 attempted a trail compile under C68 - in an interesting way, I think it
 failed. The compiler produced no warnings, no errors, no output file
 and
 not a single message to the screen! I've never seen that happen before.
 
 The source file (for there is only one) is over 4mb in size which makes
 me wonder if C68 can actually handle such a large file in one go. Maybe
 Dave Walker will notice and chip in.

I have no idea whether c68 can handle a single file that large!  Lack of
output could mean that something has gone wrong, but it could also mean that
c68 is simply still working.

In theory there should be no upper size limit (RAM permitting).   However it
has never (to my knowledge) been tested against such a large source as a
single file.   I wonder why the SQLite people have produced it that way in
the first place - it must be an absolute pig to maintain.

 
 I assume, from past experience, that progress will be slow. Probably
 very slow. :-(

If you are doing a test compilation I would make sure that you have disabled
all the optimization options.   The optimisation processes will keep running
until no further improvements can be made, and the larger the file the
longer it will take to run.  

It is probably also a good idea to stop after the c68 phase has completed,
and run the assemble phase separately.   I also do not know if AS68 is
likely to choke on such a large file and that would at least give you a
clue.

Another possibility is to use a version of c68 compiled to run on a PC under
Linux as that is likely to run much faster.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Arithmetic precision

[Dave Walker]

Dilwyn,

Writing such routines from scratch is likely to be a non-trivial task!

The c68 library has a whole set of support routines written in assembler for
this purpose that conform to the IEEE standard for Double Precision floating
point.   I suspect it would not be that hard to put some Basic keywords at
the front-end of them to make them accessible from SuperBasic.   They have
the advantage that they have been put through a formal test suite to check
that they give the correct answers which might be important?

If you could give an indication of how you expect to use them then I could
have a quick look to see if I think the c68 routines could be adapted to
that purpose.  It would be nice to know what operations you want to carry
out if it is more than simply arithmetic operations. Possibly important is
how you expect to load up and extract the values without losing precision.

Of course if you wanted to use them from C then they are ready to go - you
just need to use the 'long double' data type.

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones
 Sent: 10 May 2011 18:14
 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
 Subject: [Ql-Users] Arithmetic precision
 
 Does anyone know of any routines for the QL which can handle double
 precision floating point maths?
 
 When asked, all I could think of was Helmut AInger's math toolkit, but
 I haven't looked at it yet.
 
 Alternatively, if anyone knows how to write such a routine (a BASIC
 demo would do) or has a sample listing showing how to achieve this I'd
 be very grateful.
 
 At this stage, accuracy is more important than speed.
 
 Dilwyn Jones
 
 
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Blog

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Lee Privett
 Sent: 09 March 2011 19:10
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Blog
 
 Funnily enough I have never Google'd myself I think there is a name for
 that, anyway so much for anonymity.
 
 Congrats to you Dave  your other(better?) half btw, hope you have a
 long and happy one
 
 Does anyone know anything about the Medic interface boards for the QL,
 I have just acquired one but do not know if its working or not, haven't
 connected it up yet but it seems to have interface connections for HD
 and FD. I assume it Medic although I haven't found any distinguishing
 marks?

The medic board had a very distinct shape - so it would be easy to tell from
a photo.

I ended up with two of these.The first one I got by visiting Basingstoke
when Medic were still in operation but not delivering.It did not have
the full RAM (512KB) that it was supposed to have so they still owed me
something (but I could add those myself).  I did get the twin floppy drives
so I had most of what I ordered. The second one I got as a creditor after
they were declared insolvent and were we allowed to help ourselves to
whatever bits they had left (as we were unlikely to see any cash).   I
grabbed a caseless medic board as it looked intact.   On getting it home I
found it was fully functional except for the voltage regulator which needed
replacing.   I guess that means I must be one of the few people wjo ended up
getting more from Medic than I had paid for :)

The Medic board came with 4 slots for ROM's and I remember hardwiring the
address decoding slightly so that I could add 4 x 64KB EPROM's instead of
the 4 x 16KB they had allowed for.  This meant I could load all my commonest
toolkits and programs to be instantly accessible which made the QL much more
friendly.   I do not know if I still have the details of the mods I made to
use 64KB EPROMS - I will have to look - but they were not hard to do if I
remember correctly.

Dave

 
 Lee
 - Back to the QL-
   - Original Message -
   From: Dave Park
   To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
   Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 4:33 PM
   Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Blog
 
 
   On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk
 wrote:
 
Tony Firshman wrote, on 9/Mar/11 11:18 | Mar9:
   
 Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 9/Mar/11 11:03 | Mar9:
   
A new blog for the QL:
   
http://backtotheql.blogspot.com/
   
If you have a Google account, for example, you can comment on the
owner's postings. Who is the owner? Clue: not me.
   
Signature: |||LEE|||
Lee Privett?
   
   
   
His Blog profile says Southend on Sea and Googling finds:
   
Lee Privett. Academy Manager  Campus Manager at SouthEssex
 College.
Location: Southend on Sea, United Kingdom
   
... so I rest my case (8-)#
   
 
   Hehe, a fun find.
 
   Well, I got married yesterday, so now I'll be back to my usual
 posting
   level... Let's see if we can give Lee something to write about.
 
   I completely share his experience of having a very meagre time with
 the QL
   back in the 80s - I did have a loaner SQB, monitor and Epson MT-80
 from
   work, and it broke my heart when they closed and I had to return it.
 
   Dave
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Blog

[Dave Walker]

 I too modified mine, I suspect to add ROM.
 Did you get at least one case?
 That was the most impressive thing about the whole board.  The overall
 design seemed over the top, and clearly power hungry.
 
 Did my previous email arrive?  I have a circuit diagram.  I will scan
 it
 and send to Dilwyn (if it is not already on his site!).
 
 Tony
 

Yes -= I got a case with the one I picked up directly from Basingstoke.
The one I got later was a bare board.  I always wonder if they had not tried
to produce the hard disk and stuck to the basic interface if they might have
survived.   I was very happy with my Medic for the time that I used it.   It
was not as though the thing was completely vapourware in that the board was
actually designed and produced - even if not delivered to many customers.

Dave

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Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

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Just a suggestion - if you are going to work on producing a better version of 
the manual then I would suggest that PDF is NOT the best format.   It does not 
tend to display well on modern ereader type devices, and does not support 
features such as text-flow if font sizes are zoomed.   I would suggest that a 
format such as epub is better, and failing that the standard fall back of word 
format.  It is easy enough to create PDF files from these formats, but going 
the other way is much harder and sometimes impossible.  If you had a book in 
epub format then a program such as Calibre can easily convert it into HTML 
suitable for use on a web site.

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On 7 Feb 2011, at 10:21, Plastic plasticu...@gmail.com wrote:

 If it helps any, I have a period of 6 months plus of medically-enforced
 non-work, so I have LOTS of free time. I would be happy to convert books to
 PDFs in the style of the manual, if they are in the public domain or if I
 have permission from the rights holder. I have already made it a project for
 the future to re-do the manual, make it into a searchable website, etc.
 
 Dave
 
 On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Malcolm Lear malc...@essex.ac.uk wrote:
 
 
 
 The download is 2.2 MB, it is not text searchable at all and is pretty
 cr4p. However, it's better than nothing! Just!
 
 Cheers,
 Norman.
 
 I'm slowly sorting this book out, so it will be searchable. However it's
 a bigger job that I first imagined. A version that matches the user guide
 format would also then be possible.
 
 Cheers
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Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC

[Dave Walker]

Dave,

If you are looking for an WYSIWYG ePub editor then Sigil is an Open-Source
multi-platform one.   Some of the other major editors also have options to
output in epub format.

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Plastic
 Sent: 07 February 2011 10:58
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Approaches to parsing in SuperBASIC
 
 On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Dave Walker iti...@ntlworld.com
 wrote:
 
  Just a suggestion - if you are going to work on producing a better
 version
  of the manual then I would suggest that PDF is NOT the best format.
 It
  does not tend to display well on modern ereader type devices, and
 does not
  support features such as text-flow if font sizes are zoomed.   I
 would
  suggest that a format such as epub is better, and failing that the
 standard
  fall back of word format.  It is easy enough to create PDF files from
 these
  formats, but going the other way is much harder and sometimes
 impossible.
   If you had a book in epub format then a program such as Calibre can
 easily
  convert it into HTML suitable for use on a web site.
 
 
 I agree with you. I said PDF just because it's the most accessible
 format. I
 use Pages and LibreOffice (was OpenOffice) on the Mac. If there's a
 good
 ePub tool I can use I would happily use it.
 
 My primary focus for the manual is web format, so people can access it
 on
 their PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads... EVERYWHERE! It'll allow people to
 overview commands, see their origin/version, have code snippets you can
 cut'n'paste, etc...
 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Tables

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman
 Sent: 31 December 2010 15:12
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Tables
 
 Why on earth is there a habit (in C68 as well I expect, dragging back
 OnT) of not aligning '{' with '}'.  I always do.

In most languages this is normally a programmers preference.  Some people
like the open braces to be at the end of a line with the close brace being
on at the end of the line that closes the block.  Others (myself included)
prefer to put the opening brace on the next line by itself that the start of
block is more clearly isolated and then the closing brace also on its own
line lined up with the opening brace.  You also get hybrid answers.   That
is probably why the C indent program was produced so that you can process
an existing source file to suit your own layout preferences. 

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Re: [Ql-Users] Q-emuLator

[Dave Walker]

On 29 Nov 2010, at 13:27, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 The overflow is *below* the head area and has nothing to do with print 
 imperfections.  On the 830P it was dead easy.
 
 Tony
 Oh, OK. Still not got the confidence to try tackling it though, even though 
 you say it was dead easy on the 830P!
 
 Actually, that might explain when it got repaired why there was ink 
 everywhere inside. They probably fixed that, since it hasn't splashed ink 
 everywhere inside since the repair.
 
 Any ideas what the occasional blue streak lines might be then? It keeps 
 happening even after I last changed the two cartridges, but not consistently. 
 One of the print head nozzles leaking slightly perhaps? Strangely enough, it 
 usually happens when I use the Inksaver software or draft mode. Printing at 
 full correspondence quality is usually fine (though that might just be 
 because of the sheer amount of ink full quality puts on the paper).
 
 I've had more than my money's worth out of this printer for several years 
 now, so I'm not going to moan - if it dies tomorrow, I still can't grumble 
 (apart from the number of TO19/20 cartridges still in my desk!)
 
 Dilwyn. 
 
 
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For most printers the Service Manul is available on the net if one does a 
little bit of searching.This typically gives assembly/disassembly 
instructions and guidance on replacing pads and the like.  Makes one a little 
less fearful of diving into the innards :)

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Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

[Dave Walker]

 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Fröschle
 Sent: 28 November 2010 17:47
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories
 
 Am 28.11.2010 16:44, schrieb Tony Firshman:
  Is there any automated way to copy files *and* hard directories
  without manually using MAKE_DIR?
 
  Presumably WCOPY will only copy the files and not the directories.
  Can MAKE_DIR be used after copying?
 
  I am restoring my BBS from backup.
 
  Tony
 Tony,
 no, not out of the box. TK2's WCOPY was built long before the advent of
 real directories.
 If I remember right, there's a directory tree copy routine coming with
 SMSQ/E source codes, and I guess Dilwyn's site has quite a number of
 tools that do the same thing.
 
 Cheers,
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The 'cp' copy command that comes with c68 can copy everything including hard
directories. I used to sue it regularily to copy a complete hard disk
partition contents to another one including the directory structure.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

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 -Original Message-
 From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
 boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Merz
 Sent: 12 October 2010 09:57
 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today
 
 Hi Adrian,
 
 interesting thought. However, I have no idea how to produce XML, I do
 not have a kindle or similar reader and I do not plan to buy one, as
 I still prefer paper (can be read while sitting in the sun, while
 taking
 a bath and so on). But I am not the readers of QL Today, and I
 probably agree without knowing how the distribution works: it is more
 likely to generate new subscribers this way.
 
 I believe it is unlikely for Calamus to provide a XML module, but in
 case the Bridge module produces the desired non-image PDF, there might
 be tools available for the PC which convert PDF to XML -  I don't know.
 
 Something which needs to be discussed in the next issue of QL Today -
 at
 present I am very busy so I'll keep a bit quiet here.
 
 Kind regards   Jochen
 
 
 
 Adrian Ives wrote:
  Perfectly readable and not so large that it's cumbersome (with
 today's
  broadband speeds).  As an experiment I copied this to my Amazon
 Kindle.
  Although the latest Kindle has a passable PDF reader it's really not
  comfortable to read the pages as single graphics; a lot of zooming is
  required and it's difficult to pan and scroll across the image to
 follow the
  flow of the text.  This is a Kindle limitation, though.  On the PC,
  everything is fine.
 
  I've followed this debate for some time and would suggest that whilst
  Scanned to PDF is a good format for archival, for future
 distribution it's
  not ideal.  I don't want to re-ignite the debate about getting output
 from
  Calamus, but I don't think the target should be PDF at all.  It
 should be
  XML, for onward translation to other e-Publishing formats.  Amazon
 offer a
  service (and the free software tools) where you can self-publish to
 their
  Kindles, for example.  That route might offer a way of picking up
 entirely
  new subscriptions (from casual Kindle store browsers) and therefore
 some
  additional revenue.
 
  But, anyway, a nice conversion job and the perfect way to supplement
 the QL
  preservation project(s).  It would be great to see a complete archive
 of all
  QL Todays available on DVD (for an appropriate fee, obviously).
 
 
  Adrian
 
  Urs wrote:
 
  Jochen allowed me to share a sample issue with you guys for further
  discussion. Here's issue 1 of volume 1 (May/June 1996):
  http://www.cowo.ch/downloads/1996-05_QLToday_V01I1.pdf;
 
 
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If an alternative format is looked at, rather than XML I would recommend
HTML as this is both more likely to be available as an output option and is
relatively trivial to transform into any of the current electronic reading
formats.   Another format that is commonly available and is trivial to
convert is RTF.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Reading OPD microdrives on a QL

[Dave Walker]

Rich,

On 21 Jun 2010, at 09:11, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:

 From memory, there used to be a public domain program (maybe in the Quanta 
 library) to read One Per Desk formatted microdrives on the QL - does anyone 
 recall what it was and where it can be obtained from?
 
 -- 
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 RWAP Services
 
 http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
 http://www.rwapservices.co.uk
 
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I suspect you are thing of my OPD/QL Interchange software?  If so it can be 
downloaded from my web site at 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/djwdown.htm#OPD.  I have not even looked at 
it for a decade or two, but there is no reason it should have stopped working :)

Dave Walker

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Re: [Ql-Users] Message form

[Dave Walker]

-Original Message-

 Handy hint for anyone with an Epson inkjet which does like this - id 
 your printer packs up without warning and flashes its no good any 
 more sequence of lights (varies from printer to printer) it's reached 
 its useful life according to Seiko-Epson. What they don't tell you is 
 that the printer hasn't, the sponge mechanism beneath the print head 
 probably has. Find an Epson repair centre, they'll fix it for you, it 
 cost me £23 although DIY fixes exist on the web for many Epson 
 printers who go through this, to save you throwing away a printer 
 which might yet have life in it.

Normally all one needs for this is the SSC Service utility program which
can reset the printers internal counters.  It is a good idea to clean out
the sponges but that is not always necessary.

Dave Walker

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Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

[Dave Walker]

Tony,

 Is the file format documented anywhere?

There should be a lot of low level detail of the format of all of the Psion
suite in the TexTIDY Reference manual.   This is a Quill document that
should have the name Textidy_ref.   Most of the information was obtained
by reverse engineering the file formats for both the QL and PC variants of
the programs.

If you want I could email you a copy?

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Re: [Ql-Users] Storing QL Floppy Disks

[Dave Walker]

Why not just use the venerable rawread/rawrite programs on the PC side that
do sector imaging into a file?   It would be easy enough to do one that runs
on the QL side but is there really a need for it?

Somewhere I even have a driver for the PC side that allows such an image to
be attached as though it was a real floppy.

Dave Walker

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From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Rich Mellor
Sent: 24 February 2010 11:46
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] Storing QL Floppy Disks

Does anyone know of any standard floppy disk imaging software for the QL 
- to make a single file on the PC for example, which would be the 
equivalent of a floppy disk which all emulators could read / write to ?

Might be an interesting little project if anyone is interested

-- 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

[Dave Walker]

All,

If you want to use PC Four, then TexTIDY can convert the Psion file formats
between their QL and PC variants.

Dave Walker

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From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of François Van Emelen
Sent: 23 February 2010 10:42
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

Tobias Fröschle schreef:
 Am 22.02.2010 11:55, schrieb Tony Firshman:
 Tony Firshman wrote, On 22/02/10 09:10:

 For .doc, last time I added a special character at the end of every 
 paragraph.  I then made a printer driver as follows and printed to a 
 file:

 End of line - SPACE
 Special character - CR/LF/CR/LF £ - chr 156

 Anything else recommended?  I cannot find the driver I made.

 Tony,
 PCFOUR, which is avalable from the sinclairql.es site is probably worth 
 a try - Even if it's constantly yelling Out of memory at me when I try 
 to load an otherwise valid Quill file (Which migh be caused by Windows 7 
 - No idea)

I have never had that problem but I have to admit I am not using 
'Windows 7'. I have just opened a 212 kB quill file without problems.
Files created with PCFOUR or Xchange (pc format) are not compatible with 
those created on the QL. Even the specific 'psion' and 'dif' formats are 
  not exchangeable.

For Quill docs I use Norman Dunbar's QSTRIPPER. It is fast easy to use 
and it can save in TXT, HTML, DOCBOOK XML and PDF format. Accented 
vowels are converted correctly.
 
 Regards
 Tobias
 
 Thanks again Daniele.  Qemulator has rescued some important work.

 Tony

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Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

[Dave Walker]

All,

 Second choice would be Textidy, which will convert to plain text and 
 you can batch many files to convert in one go.

Note that TexTIDY will also convert to Wordstar (I know it is now obsolete)
format preserving formatting.  Some programs  can still import Wordstar
files.

Another TexTIDY option is HTML output - I do not remember off-hand how good
that option was in preserving formatting but it would preserve more than
using simple text output.

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

[Dave Walker]

Dilwyn,

I am reasonably certain that the first free slot is used.

I think this is why if you get directory corruption you can no longer add
files.  Something is wrong at the end of the directory so the directory
cannot be extended.   However existing entries tend to be OK which is why
copying all the files to another empty QXL.WIN corrects the problem..

Dave


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From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones
Sent: 09 November 2009 15:09
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

 Did you try to run TT's drvchk or drvlink on that drive?
No.

I did a recursive copy of the entire qxl.win. The old qxl.win was perfectly
readable and copied to a new qxl.win of the same size without problem. I
actually used an old program of mine (The Copier) and dates weren't
important, I don't think The Copier preserves dates (if it does, more by
luck than judgement).

I seem to be up and running again, anyhow.

Regarding fragmentation, I was thinking more of the directory than
fragmentation of the qxl.win itself. I don't know how adding and deleting
files in the qxl.win works. Suppose X is a deleted file and you have files
arranged like this:
file1
X
file2
X
file3

If a new file is created, is it always placed at the end of the directory
(i.e. after file3 int he example) or does the filing system locate the first
free slot (in this case the X between file1 and file2)?

Dilwyn Jones

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 Von: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
 [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] Im Auftrag von Dilwyn Jones
 Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. November 2009 22:09
 An: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
 Betreff: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

 I've run into an unusual program with my WIN1_ (a QXL.WIN) which I 
 have been unable to resolve.


 DIR WIN1_  gives 84847/1048560 sectors, it's a 512MB QXL.WIN, with
 11,716 files on it.

 Despite reporting 84847 sectors free it says Drive Full. Deleting one 
 file will let me save one file normally, then it runs into Drive Full 
 next time I try to save anything. So it's not as if it's write 
 protected, for example.

 Anyone any idea what's happening? Could I have run into the maximum 
 number of files a QXL.WIN file might hold, for example (directory 
 full)?


 It was running on a pen drive, so I tried copying it to C: drive and 
 using it from there with QPC's win1_ pointing to C:\QXL.WIN. Same 
 result.

 Next step will be create a new blank QXL.WIN and copy everything there 
 to see if that gives the same result (i.e. checking for fragmented
 qxl.win?)

 Help!

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Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

[Dave Walker]

The 'cp' port is provided as one of the extra utilities with the c68
package.

I used it a number of times to recover all available files from a corrupt
QXL.WIN package.  As I was testing software that used direct sector access
to WIN drives, corruption was a bit more frequent than I would have liked!
It was important to me that date/time was preserved during the copy as it
affected what got re-compiled when using the 'make' command with c68 - which
meant that feature got extensive testing.

Dave

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From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of James Hunkins
Sent: 09 November 2009 00:36
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] qxl.win

Confirmed, as long as you use the correct parameters, 'cp' will fully
duplicate everything. Whoever ported it did a good job.

jim

On 08-11-2009, at 7:32 PM, P Witte wrote:

James Hunkins wrote:

 I have had that happen occasionally in the past, especially when I was 
 doing a lot of developing for QDT which generated a lot of files every 
 time I rebuilt it.  My guess is that it is some sort of fragmentation 
 or less likely a file system table corruption.
 What I did to resolve it was to recursively copy all directories and 
 files to a brand new drive and then, after exiting QPC, rename the 
 original as a backup name (just in case) and rename the new one as the 
 original name.  In QPC you can also just change the names in the 
 configuration for each drive.
 I used the 'cp' command (I think that it came with some Unix command
 set) to do the copying.  One time hint, do not run it in verbose mode 
 or else, depending on how many files, it will seem to take forever.
 Once you verify that the new drive is good, then you can get rid of 
 the original that you backed up.  I have never had a failure in doing 
 this.
 Copying the entire qxl.win file takes the entire directory data 
 structure with it so if it had a problem before, it will still have 
 one.

Exactly right Jim. Way to go! I presume cp maintains the file dates, etc?
Otherwise I have a home grown routine for this if anyone needs one.

 On 08-11-2009, at 6:42 PM, P Witte wrote:


 Next step will be create a new blank QXL.WIN and copy everything 
 there to see if that gives the same result (i.e. checking for 
 fragmented qxl.win?)
 Thats what Id try. Even if you copied all your files into the root 
 directory they should all fit!
 I just tried:
 for i = 1 to 99: save 'win5_t'i: at 0,0:print i, on a blank 
 qxl.win file. Its still going strong at 16000 files plus!
 I'll let you know the final answer unless Marcel gets there first ;o)

Cant wait for the final result as after about 16k files in one directory
things really start to slow down! No wonder, as for each save the filing
subsystem has to check every entry before the next save can occur.

Having determined that there is no arbitrary limit, I presume that the max
number of files in one directory is probably around 32k (though it could be
65k) However, the practical limit at present is about 16k - 20k as after
that, even on a 2.66 GHz Core Duo, things slow down unbearably.

Qpac absolutely hates having to read such a large directory, and if a Sort
is switched on it takes forever!

A theoretical answer would be much quicker to obtain, but Im rather rusty at
the moment and would know where to look for the data. But this way of
finding out also gives some practical insights.

The final figure at closing time is: 27490 files in the root directory! and
that took almost one hour to complete.

Good night!

Per
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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Status Report

[Dave Walker]

Adrian,

Well done for all your work.

Could you please feed the changed source back to me (itimpi at ntlworld.com)
so that I can integrate the changes into my master source.   I can then put
the updated source on my web site.

Thanks,

Dave


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From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian D. Ives
Sent: 25 October 2009 08:10
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Status Report


Just to close off my original request, I have now successfully recompiled
C68 (as XTC68) under Open Watcom C Version 1.8 and MinGW (Minimalist GNU for
Windows) GCC 3.4.5. The latter version is useful because it integrates very
well with the MinGW environment and allows MinGW Make to be used to build
QDOS C projects in exactly the same way as C/C++ projects for Win32.

MinGW is here: http://www.mingw.org/

It wasn't quite as simple as just recompiling, unfortunately. I did find a
couple of very well hidden bugs that caused memory faults in the as68
assembler and qld linker. I don't think these would ever have showed up
before because of the environments that I was compiling under. I have also
fixed some really trivial things like missing function prototypes and type
casts (the things that throw warnings when compiling that distract you from
spotting _real_ problems).

As the principal aim (for me) of compiling the XTC68 version of C68 was to
integrate with the MinGW environment, using MinGW Make, I have renamed some
of the tools to avoid clashes with the equivalent GCC tools. The versions
compiled under Watcom retain their original names.

ToolWatcom Name MinGW Name
~~~ ~~
Assembler   as68qas
Compilerc68 qc
Front End   qcc qcc
Linker  qld qld
Pre-Processor   qcppqpp
Make Utilitymakeqmake

Additionally, in keeping with the 'Unix-like' environment that MinGW
provides, the MinGW tools work with object files with a .o extension while
the Watcom tools (for use under vanilla Win32) use .obj

Current status:

Component   Working Not Working
~   ~~~ ~~~
qas.exe MinGW, Watcom
qc.exe  MinGW, Watcom
qcc.exe MinGW, Watcom
qld.exe MinGW, Watcom
qmake.exe   MinGW   Watcom (haven't got around to it yet)
qpp.exe MinGW, Watcom

As soon as I get the time I will also build the SROFF Library Manager
(slb) which will complete the toolset.

As a test I used the MinGW versions to compile and link version 1.11 of the
Shell and am pleased to report that everything worked perfectly, producing a
QDOS executable that (once its header was
restored) ran perfectly under QPC2.

If anyone is in the least bit interested in these tools I am happy to make
the updated sources and executables available.

Acknowledgements and thanks to Dave Walker (the true Guardian and Guru of
C68) for all of his work in maintaining the original sources.

Regards,



Adrian


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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

The Qt source download is about 375Mb (in compressed format), so that would
be an immense amount of code to port.  Qt assumes a graphical UI, so there
would be a need to write a QL specific mapping to support this. It is also
written largely in C++, so there would probably have to be port of something
like gcc as well - another none trivial task. I cannot see anyone taking on
a task of that sort of magnitude on a QL environment.

Dave


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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
Sent: 16 October 2009 17:01
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

Hi Derek,

 Is QT a good platform, I used to dabble a little in Linux.
I like it, Dave Walker thinks it's a little harder to program that .net
- I have no idea as I don't program  .net.

There are bots of QT that take a while to get your head around. It is, in
many places, less easy to figure out that Borlan C++ Builder used to be.

Dave has a point!

 I assume there is a Windows version... How about a QL version
There are many versions available at http://qt.nokia.com/.

Cheers,
Norman.
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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

I have heard from a number of sources that Apple may be about to relax that
restriction.
Having said that you could always jailbreak the phone to run an emulator.

Dave

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Anton Preinsack
Sent: 16 October 2009 22:43
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

I would love to have a QL-emulator on my iPhone!

The problem is, that Apple don´t allow applications, which are able to run
other code (like a QL emulator would  do with QL programs). There were huge
problems with the C64 emulator, too. The authors had to remove C64 Basic and
the emulator can only start C64 apps from the Apple App store.

BTW: I got my first QLX-card from Rich and will set up my QLX-system
tomorrow. So questions will follow for sure;-)

Kind Regards,
Anton

Am 16.10.2009 um 22:31 schrieb Dilwyn Jones:

 While I am at it, is there any interest in one of the QL emulators 
 running
 on the iPhone/iTouch?   I have been thinking of looking at porting
 one of
 them for some time.

 Dave
 I've been asked a couple of times if any of the QL emulators can run 
 on such a system.

 This would definitely open up a potential new niche for the QL!

 By chance, Urs Koenig also mentions that the iPhone will be part of 
 his QL and Mac Are 25 event later this month.

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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

All,

I am not sure if the XTC68 will work with long filenames or not.There is
no such limitation built into the C68 part of the source, but it might be a
limitation of the fact that it is compiled as a DOS console application at
the Visual Studio level?

As to whether it can run on Windows mobile, I cannot see any fundamental
limitation if you have access to a simple Console style window. The system
does not use anything demanding in terms of underlying OS support -
basically just standard file access operations.  Even if that is not
standard with Windows Mobile there is sure to be a 3rd party app that
provides it.   After all we got the software to work on the Psion 3a and
Psion 5 which are far more limiting platforms.

I might see if I can build it to run on my iPhone - that would be of more
interest to me personally.  I am not sure how feasible it is, but as the
underlying OS on the iPhone is Unix based it should be possible without too
much pain I would have thought.  If I do that I would probably add a graphic
front-end to make running it easier.  

While I am at it, is there any interest in one of the QL emulators running
on the iPhone/iTouch?   I have been thinking of looking at porting one of
them for some time.

Dave

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Derek Stewart
Sent: 15 October 2003 08:21
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

Hi Adrian,

I would be interested in seeing the finished XT68 with long file names.

I also did not realise, that XTC8 was in fact C68. Just goes to show you.

I aam wondering if XTC68 can run under Windows Mobile.

Derek

Adrian D. Ives wrote:
 Hello Dave,

 No, I didn't realize that XTC68 was the same thing as C68. That's why 
 I enquired about the source ;)

 There  is,  of course, no need to produce a graphic front end as there 
 are  several  freeware  C  development  IDEs  out  there that could be 
 pressed  into  service  for  this  purpose.  I  was interested only in 
 removing any limitations under the Win32 platform. For example, in the 
 very  limited  documentation I have mention is made of an 8.3 filename 
 restriction.

 Instead, I can now re-compile the current C68sources.

 Thanks for your help,

 Adrian



 Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 1:42:48 PM, you wrote:

   
 Adrian,
 

   
 I was not upset or anything - I just wondered if you realized that. 
 The
 XTC68 was just the version compiled to run on DOS and produce 68000 
 code. In fact most of the C68 development actually took place under 
 Windows using Visual C as the debugging tools were rather better.
 

   
 There has been no change for a very long time now.   I guess if some bug
 reports were received it might be looked at again.
 

   
 As I said if you were interested in producing a Windows graphic 
 front-end then feel free to go ahead.  It should not be very hard to 
 do using Microsoft .NET toolset.
 

   
 Dave
 


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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

Adrian,

The source for the cross-compiler is the same as that used for the QL
version.   It is merely a case of configuring the config.h file correctly
for the host and target platforms when building the compiler.   If I
remember correctly MSVC project and make files are included.

It is therefore available from my web site at http://www.itimpi.com

When you say you are interested in making it run under WIN32 - what are you
implying?   It has always been designed to run via the command line and so
should already run fine on all versions of Windows.If you are thinking
of a graphical front-end, then I would suggest that this should be done as a
free-standing program that simply calls the existing binaries?

Dave

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian D. Ives
Sent: 14 October 2009 09:17
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources


Does anyone know where I can get hold of the source for this c68 cross
compiler? I have the DOS/NT/UNIX binaries, but I'm interested in updating it
to run under Win32.

As an aside, I recently finished migrating an MK14 emulator to run under
Vista. It's nothing spectacular, but it does have a certain curiosity value.
If anyone is interested I will make it available.

Thanks for reading,


Adrian Ives


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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

Adrian,

I was not upset or anything - I just wondered if you realized that.  The
XTC68 was just the version compiled to run on DOS and produce 68000 code. In
fact most of the C68 development actually took place under Windows using
Visual C as the debugging tools were rather better.

There has been no change for a very long time now.   I guess if some bug
reports were received it might be looked at again.

As I said if you were interested in producing a Windows graphic front-end
then feel free to go ahead.  It should not be very hard to do using
Microsoft .NET toolset.

Dave


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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian D. Ives
Sent: 14 October 2009 10:08
To: Dave Walker
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

Dave,

Firstly, I'm not implying anything. I didn't mean to cause so much offence
by my request. I did not realise that XTC68 was exactly the same suite as
the C68 compiler which you have done a sterling job of maintaining for many
years. I thought, as the binaries I have were dated 1997, that it was a
different compiler that had not been maintained in that time.

Now that you have set me straight, my request is herewith withdrawn and I
shall never raise the subject on this list again.


Regards,



Adrian

---

On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 9:54:06 AM, you wrote:

DW Adrian,

DW The source for the cross-compiler is the same as that used for the QL
DW version.   It is merely a case of configuring the config.h file
correctly
DW for the host and target platforms when building the compiler.   If I
DW remember correctly MSVC project and make files are included.

DW It is therefore available from my web site at http://www.itimpi.com

DW When you say you are interested in making it run under WIN32 - what are
you
DW implying?   It has always been designed to run via the command line and
so
DW should already run fine on all versions of Windows.If you are
thinking
DW of a graphical front-end, then I would suggest that this should be 
DW done as a free-standing program that simply calls the existing binaries?

DW Dave

DW -Original Message-
DW From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com 
DW [mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Adrian D. 
DW Ives
DW Sent: 14 October 2009 09:17
DW To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
DW Subject: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources


DW Does anyone know where I can get hold of the source for this c68 
DW cross compiler? I have the DOS/NT/UNIX binaries, but I'm interested 
DW in updating it to run under Win32.

DW As an aside, I recently finished migrating an MK14 emulator to run 
DW under Vista. It's nothing spectacular, but it does have a certain
curiosity value.
DW If anyone is interested I will make it available.

DW Thanks for reading,


DW Adrian Ives


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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

Norman,

QT might produce a portable result, but it is much harder to program.

DAve

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
Sent: 14 October 2009 21:56
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

Evening all,

 ...
 As I said if you were interested in producing a Windows graphic 
 front-end then feel free to go ahead.  It should not be very hard to 
 do using Microsoft .NET toolset.
Or, even beter QT!

Cheers,
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Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

[Dave Walker]

Derek,

QT is on all the major platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac).   However it is VERY
large, so there is no chance of ever getting it onto the QL.

Dave

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Derek Stewart
Sent: 14 October 2003 23:25
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

Is QT a good platform, I used to dabble a little in Linux.

I assume there is a Windows version... How about a QL version

Derek

Norman Dunbar wrote:
 Evening all,

   
 ...
 As I said if you were interested in producing a Windows graphic 
 front-end then feel free to go ahead.  It should not be very hard to 
 do using Microsoft .NET toolset.
 
 Or, even beter QT!

 Cheers,
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Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

[Dave Walker]

All,

I also have the video as a 700MB .avi file in Xvid format if anyone would
prefer that?
As with Derek contact me directly if you are interested.

Dave

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[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Derek Stewart
Sent: 10 October 2009 08:10
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Micro Men on BBC iPlayer, QL is mentioned!!

Hi,

I have downloaded the video file, after a little poking about on the Iplayer
PC Desktop setup. The file is in Windows Media Video format with a DRM
Licence, once I have removed the licence, I can email it to anyone that
wants a copy, it is 350Mb so will take a while if you are on dialup.

Contact me direct.

Derek

Neil Riley wrote:
 I recorded the program! One strange thing, it showed a TV advert, 
 Clive Sinclair was leaping over other computers of the time and it 
 briefly showed the QL and a price of £645 or thereabouts, Screen 
 included perhaps! Haven't actually watched the program as yet but no 
 doubt it'll take me back to my teenage years.

 Just thinking back reminds me of the huge excitement at the thought of 
 owning my first computer, at the time, the ZX81 :-) Of course, I 
 really wanted the fantastic ATARI 800 but that was £700+ so. ( got 
 one now though ;-) )

 Ah, Nostalgia ! 



   
 Darren Branagh darrenbran...@gmail.com 09 October 2009 02:17 
 
 Just a quick one, for those interested Micro Men can be viewed for the 
 next week for free on the BBC's iPlayer service (only if you live in 
 the UK)

 Follow this link :-


 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_Men/

 It really is worth a look - I totally enjoyed it.


 Cheers,

 Darren.
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Re: [Ql-Users] Qubide 2 and CDs

[Dave Walker]

Duncan,

DiscOVER SHOULD read the MSDOS disk format - it certainly has been able to
do so in the past as long as it has been formatted to FAT16 (it will not
handle FAT32 or NTFS).   How big is the drive you are trying to use - I
could probably sort out why DiscOver is not working if I can get an image of
the disk.   If it is not large it might well compress down to a manageable
size.

Dave

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To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qubide 2 and CDs


 


How does Qubide 2 read a FAT ZIP disk.?
?

I have not had any success with Diskover.?
?

I always have to format it to a Qubide partition.?

 Hi, 

I imagine Qubide would need an application that could open a direct access
channel to the FAT partition and then process the FAT table data and the
file data like the CF card FAT 16 reader I showed you just over a year ago.
I thought thats what Diskover did - read alien disc formats.

Duncan 


 


 

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Sent: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:06
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qubide 2 and CDs









Hi,?
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Re: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC

[Dave Walker]

You could try adding the /B flag to the COPY command on the PC side to say
it is a binary file?

Also if copying program files it is a good idea to ZIP them up first to
preserve the dataspace settings stored in file headers for such files.  The
QL versions of the ZIP/UNZIP programs know how to handle this so if you
unzip them under the emulator these settings get preserved. 

Dave

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Subject: [Ql-Users] Copying files from QL to PC



Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help.  I have and old bog-standard QL (i.e. no floppy
drives), and I'd like transfer all my files from microdrive cartridges to a
PC so I can use them on an emulator.

I have a serial cable and can get the machines talking to each other.  I'm
doing the following, on the QL

copy_n mdv1_filename to ser1hz

on the PC

copy com1 filename

This appears to work ok for text-based files, which I can then open up and
load in Q-Emulator.  However, for binary files I am having problems in that
the transfer never completes - the PC reports the transfer as complete,  but
the QL is still sending, and I end up with only part of the file on the PC.
I think what's going on is that there's a combination of characters within
the file body that is being interpreted as an EOF (ctrl-z).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how best I can get my files copied
across.  I will also need to get some files from the PC to the QL (i.e. I
haven't tried yet), are there any pitfalls or tips to getting that to work.

Many thanks for any help.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Using More than two drives with QubIDE

[Dave Walker]

Rich,

I very much doubt it as the IDE standard only allows for a maximum of 2
drives on a single cable.

Dave

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Subject: [Ql-Users] Using More than two drives with QubIDE

Is there a way of connecting more than two hard disks (eg, two hard 
disks and a CD ROM) to a QL using QubIDE?

I have only ever seen two drives on the same IDE cable

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Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

[Dave Walker]

Dilwyn,

In theory the Windows Remote Assistance should work.

However, it is not any good for anyone who is using a router at home as to
get it to work they have to configure it to allow specific inbound ports - a
task beyond the sort of people who you are probably trying to help. 

You might want to look instead at the LogMeIn product as this does lot
require that kind of special network setup.  This is the latest incarnation
of what many years ago was called PC Anywhere for those with long
memories.  The version of LogMeIn with basic remote control is free for
private use.   I have used it successfully with a number of friends who want
remote support.   It is easy enough to talk a user through downloading and
activating their end as it is basically a case of following on-screen
prompts.

Dave

Skype Id:  itimpi
Tel:  01707 652791

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones
Sent: 22 October 2008 14:29
To: QL-Users list
Subject: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

Now that I am on Messenger and Skype, I've started thinking about using the
Remote Assistance facility in Windoze. I wondered if it might come in useful
in my Quanta helpline capacity.

Does anyone have experience of using this? Would it be possible for me to
connect to the PC of someone running a QL emulator to help with trying to
solve QL and emulator issues?

If anyone on this list would like to give it a try to see what we can
achieve, please email me privately and I'll issue my user name - I don't
want the user name to fall foul of spamming etc as a result of appearing and
being archived on this list. Once I know what I'm doing I'll probably go
public then.

(Hmm, I expect Geoff or Roy will use that phrase in evidence against me in
the next QL Today :o|  )

I have access to broadband now, but I don't know if it would work on
dial-up.

This is just an idea I'm toying with to try to see how we can harness these
technologies to further the QLing experience (i.e. make Windoze work for its
living!) It might come to nothing in the end, but it's worth a try I
suppose.

-- 
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Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

[Dave Walker]

Yes, - the moment you have a router then you are going to need to do special
configuring to allow connections from outside to access your local hardware.
The issue is that although the basic problem is generic virtually every
brand of router differs in the details of how one sets it up.  Most users
probably treat their routers as a plug in and forget device - but it is
not when trying to make this type of connection. 

The originating end (the one starting the connection) does not have this
issue as nearly all routers allow outbound connections without restrictions.
With the LogMeIn software it effectively avoids this issue by both ends
initiating outbound connections which are then connected via an external
server (the LogMeIn ones in this case).   There are some quite interesting
technical papers on the LogMeIn web site on how they handle security for
those who are interested in the details.

If you want to experiment with this I am more than willing to work with you.
I do not keep my Skype connection active all the time, so you might need to
use a quick voice call to get me to bring it up.  

Dave

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Sent: 22 October 2008 17:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

 In theory the Windows Remote Assistance should work.

 However, it is not any good for anyone who is using a router at home as to
 get it to work they have to configure it to allow specific inbound ports -

 a
 task beyond the sort of people who you are probably trying to help.
Ah, exactly the kind of snag information I was hoping someone would 
suggest. We have a wireless router here, so presumably I'd have to go 
through this with anyone trying to remote assist me?

 You might want to look instead at the LogMeIn product as this does lot
 require that kind of special network setup.  This is the latest 
 incarnation
 of what many years ago was called PC Anywhere for those with long
 memories.  The version of LogMeIn with basic remote control is free for
 private use.   I have used it successfully with a number of friends who 
 want
 remote support.   It is easy enough to talk a user through downloading and
 activating their end as it is basically a case of following on-screen
 prompts.
Thanks.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance

[Dave Walker]

Dilwyn,

The remote control facility is always available.   For the first month they
let you try out the items that are in the version you pay for as well such
as remote printing, file transfer etc.

I can tell you from experience that LogMeIn is less trouble than any of the
other options.   Not sure why your Anti-Virus should have been getting
involved.   I have used LogMeIn successfully with those who knew nothing
about computers, and who were unable to get the Windows Remote Assistance to
work.

Dave

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To: QL-Users list
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 I would agree. I use LogMeIn regularly and it is very simple to set up.

 On 22/10/2008 17:02, Dave Walker wrote:
 You might want to look instead at the LogMeIn product as this does lot
 require that kind of special network setup.  This is the latest
 incarnation
 of what many years ago was called PC Anywhere for those with long
 memories.  The version of LogMeIn with basic remote control is free for
 private use.   I have used it successfully with a number of friends who
 want
 remote support.   It is easy enough to talk a user through downloading
 and
 activating their end as it is basically a case of following on-screen
 prompts.
OK, I downloaded it and installed it. Not straightforward - all sorts of
things went wrong, including my anti-virus taking a strong interest in
preventing it doing what it was trying to, which may have been the cause of
all the things which went wrong.

If I understand properly, it works as a full version for a month then 
reverts
to a receive-only mode, which (maybe I misunderstood) isn't what I wanted.
Either way, it was extremely unclear what was happening half the time.

For family members, I should be able to get to their routers to set the
relevant access details and use standard remote assistance for that.

I'll give this a try, as it seems a logically simple solution (trying to 
offer computer assistance by definition it has to be simpler to use than the

problem it's meant to solve) but I usually end up throwing away this kind of
software after early problems like this, on the basis that if they can't be
bothered to make it a trouble free installation, the rest of the program
won't be up to much. It might be easy for a software pro to use, but first
impressions are very poor and I certainly would not like to talk anyone 
through this installation after all the things which went wrong here.

-- 
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Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

[Dave Walker]

Microsoft nearly always under-quote the minimum memory requirements for any
sort of effective use of their OS.   For XP anything less than 128Mb is
painful, and 256Mb is really what you should regard as a minimum to avoid
excessive disk swapping.

Dave


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Dilwyn,

The Toshiba Tecra 780DVD is a PII 266Mhz Laptop is well within the minimum
specification for Windows XP. The main problem is the BIOS onlyu supporting
8.4Gn hard drives. I doubt whether there is a BIOS update to cope with
highwe capacity hard drives.

If you look really hard there is always PII laptops with hard drives that
are faulty or not fast enough for Windows XP or Vista, that are being
scrapped. Which is a pity, as Linux can be run very smoothly on a PII
laptop, but then that means no QPC2...

Derek

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The existing one is either 6GB or 8GB (forget which). Derek has 
offered a similar size one for £10 which is probably good enough for 
such an old laptop. It used to have Windows 98SE on it, we were trying 
to replace that with Windows XP when the drive gave up the ghost. 
We've tried several times to FORMAT it, but it stops at the same place 
every time at the 13% mark in the FORMAT with a horrible noise.

It won't boot up now of course, so we resort to the Win 98 startup 
disk to FDISK and FORMAT it, hoping to be able to convert it to NTFS 
for Win XP if and when we get it to format!

The hard disk was itself a second hand replacement for a smaller hard 
disk which was in it when we bought it. I've since given away that 
small hard disk.

Thanks for offering - I'll try Derek's offer first and appeal again if 
that is unsuccessful.

My son is 12 now and VERY into his computers (as you might expect of a 
son of mine!). This Christmas, he got a little £60 Aiptek digital 
video camera, spent most of Christmas day recording his mum, dad, 
grandparents etc and made a very good half hour video of it all (with 
Windows Movie Maker, which was a traumatic learning experience until 
we realised we had to set Windows Virtual Memory to a massive 1GB to 
edit a video at a snail's pace on a 1.4GHz Pentium, which makes me 
very glad of what we are able to achieve at a few MHz on a QL 
sometimes) which is now on DVD doing the rounds of the family! Quite a 
learning curve, involving digital video editing, DVD creation 
software, SD card usage, USB file transfer, bluetooth links between 
phones and computers to import stills taken on 2 separate mobiles etc. 
A bit hairy at times, but we've both learned so much in just over a 
week that we are very happy about our achievement even if it was a 
bumpy ride!

Bluetooth was an interesting experience and quite a challenge. My son 
had got a new Nokia phone late last year and I swapped him something 
for his old Motorola V3 phone which in an even worse condition than my 
ancient Nokia. Both phones (allegedly) have Bluetooth. We bought a USB 
'Dongle' for his PC (just £2.50 from Ebuyer) so he could transfer his 
photos to his computer. That worked quite well from phone to PC, but 
the PC won't play the MP3's he's downloaded from his phone (don't know 
if it is a new file format problem, or if the MP3's are flagged only 
to work on the system they are downloaded as an anti-piracy or 
something).

Then we realised the PC wouldn't send to the phone, but the phone had 
an obscure security setting which prevented that, but even after 
finding that we're still struggling to send to the phone. Next, we 
tried phone to phone. That was a hassle, it was only today we (well, 
my son actually) eventually found some little used feature on one of 
the phones which had prevented successful 'pairing' of the two 
phones - we were soon able to transfer files from one phone to the 
other very easily as long as we weren't far apart - I guess Bluetooth 
is only meant to work up to a few metres apart.

Even more successful was connecting my phone to my PC and setting my 
Freeola dial-up to point to the USB-phone link as a modem. Dial out, 
and the phone magically springs to life, connects to Freeola  and a 
little later I was downloading email and browsing via the mobile, then 
I realised it was 25p per minute. Oops, back to BT I think. But it 
works - I should be able to use this as a modem while away from home, 
possibly at Quanta workshops, and if the QPC or QemuLator TCP/IP can 
work with it, I'll be able to get some degree of internet access and 
emails from QPC via mobile phone, though I haven't got that far yet. I 
also want to get a USB Bluetooth dongle like my son's to see what I 
can achieve with that.

While all this PC fiddling (and I call the PC fiddly 

Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

[Dave Walker]

Interesting enough 1Gb is more than enough for Vista - it can actually run
respectably enough in 512Mb.Perhaps they have learnt their lesson, and
as memory is cheap do not want the PC vendors to cripple performance by
stinting on memory.

Having said that if I was going to buy a new machine for use with Vista I
would probably go for 2Gb or 4Gb.  Modern machines have hyperthreaded CPU
cores, so you are more likely to load multiple applications and still get
decent performance if you have lots of memory available.

dave

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Dave Walker wrote:
 Microsoft nearly always under-quote the minimum memory requirements for
any
 sort of effective use of their OS.   For XP anything less than 128Mb is
 painful, and 256Mb is really what you should regard as a minimum to avoid
 excessive disk swapping.
 
Spot on, Dave (as you should be (8-)# ).  I found exactly that.

In that light, I am staggered that M$ recommend (I believe) 1GB RAM for 
Vista.  In the same vein, that means 2GB is the realistic figure.

Crazy.

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Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD

[Dave Walker]

I suspect that you are right for standard Vista, but if I was buying for a
new machine I would be going for the 64-bit version which has no such limit.

Dave


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I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that
can be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.

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Interesting enough 1Gb is more than enough for Vista - it can actually
 run
respectably enough in 512Mb.Perhaps they have learnt their lesson,
 and
as memory is cheap do not want the PC vendors to cripple performance by
stinting on memory.

Having said that if I was going to buy a new machine for use with Vista
 I
would probably go for 2Gb or 4Gb.  Modern machines have hyperthreaded
 CPU
cores, so you are more likely to load multiple applications and still
 get
decent performance if you have lots of memory available.

dave

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Dave Walker wrote:
 Microsoft nearly always under-quote the minimum memory requirements
 for
any
 sort of effective use of their OS.   For XP anything less than 128Mb
 is
 painful, and 256Mb is really what you should regard as a minimum to
 avoid
 excessive disk swapping.
 
Spot on, Dave (as you should be (8-)# ).  I found exactly that.

In that light, I am staggered that M$ recommend (I believe) 1GB RAM for
 
Vista.  In the same vein, that means 2GB is the realistic figure.

Crazy.

Tony





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Re: [Ql-Users] Need few translations.

[Dave Walker]

Jimmy,

You could try using the language translation tools on Google for this?
Seemed to give sensible answers from what I could see on a quick try.

Dave


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Hi all,

Please, I need translations of few words in German :
Debugger
and
Disk change
Full Screen (DirectDraw only) 

In Italian :
Debugger
and

In Spanish :
Debugger

Thanks for your help,

Jimmy.

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Re: [Ql-Users] batch file

[Dave Walker]

All the latest versions of windows have built in support for vbscript (.vbs)
as an alternative to .bat files.  VBScript gives you far more control and
powerful facilities than was ever available via the .bat file syntax

Dave

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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
 Correct, it's not supported in Win XP at least. Shame, choice was a
 good option to use. I saw how to use it in a batch files tutorial
 online and so much of that tutorial seemed to only apply to real
 DOS, not the pretend one in Win XP. Any other way of asking the user
 to press a key? - I understand what errorlevel does and how to goto
 menus and so on, so any way of asking for a selection would be great.
 
 I hope to be able to use relative paths so that I can try to make the
 batch files work from the current directory where it's started from to
 start the relevant emulator, to work around the problem that you can't
 predict which drive letter the user's computer will assign to the USB
 drive.
 
 e.g. if the batch file qlay.bat is in the root and qlay2.exe is in a
 directory called \qlay2\ then this should (I hope, not tried it yet)
 start qlay2.exe, and I'll try to configure the emulators to look for
 their file systems via a relative directory too:
 
 \qlay2\qlay2.exe
 
 The only other way I can think of asking for user input is to use SET 
 with the /P option, but I don't know if this works with older DOSes or 
 not (I might raid my wife's laptop in a minute to find out as that has 
 Win 98 on it):
 
 SET choice=
 SET /P choice=Select option 1 to 4
 
Whoops - I did mean 'choice' - mistyped.
Brilliant figuring *that* out (8-)#
I see that is not available on NT (on which XP is based).
Sorry.
This URL gives a solution:
http://tinyurl.com/2p8xj8

(PMChoice.bat and the execable PMChoice.kix)

Not nearly as good as 'choice' which I used a lot in the early days.

It would be easy to write a utility in another language - perl is a good
one to learn!


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Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity!

[Dave Walker]

For the kit quoted the theoretical maximum is 200Mbs.  

However a bit like wireless whether you actually get that can depend on a
wide variety of factors such as quality of wiring, noise levels etc.   In
most cases I would guess you have at least one end plugged into a 100Mb hub
or LAN card which would limit your speed anyway.   

I must admit I have been thinking of trying out this kit myself as my
wireless is only 54Mb, and that is not enough when trying to stream HD
quality video as using wireless 54Mb notional speed one finds that the data
throughput tends to be more like 20-30Mb at best once one takes into account
the wireless overheads.

Dave

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Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
 Plus, wireless doesn't work in the house from up to downstairs - there is
a pre-stressed concrete floor between the two locations and it works
splendidly as a RF filter - of the 'no-pass' variety. Oh hum !

   
 Have you tried powerline networking - ie Ethernet over the domestic 
 power cabling.  I had  a similar problem and the Netgear HDXB101 
 Powerline Ethernet Kit solved it for me.  Performance is pretty good - 
 better than wireless actually - with speeds up to MBps.
 
0 MBps is pretty slow (8-)#

What number did you miss out?

My wireless is 108Mbps.

Tony

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Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity!

[Dave Walker]

It would be normal for a router to have a different IP address on the
downstream side to the upstream side with the upstream side being of the
192.168.0/1.x type of address for your local LAN and the gateway and DNS is
then set to be the router.   Normally the downstream side is then connected
directly to the cable modem and gets a IP address supplied via Virgin, but
you never see that on your local LAN/wireless LAN.  I for instance currently
(and being cable it rarely changes) have a external IP address of
82.22.94.182 supplied by Virgin, but all my local equipment on 192.168.1.x
addresses with both Gateway and DNS set to 192.168.1.1 9which is the router
address).   Just a thought - is your router set to act a DHCP server - you
want it to so it can deliver local addresses to your PC's, and that is also
where you set the address range to be used for the local subnet.

Dave


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Morning Rick,

 Have you tried powerline networking - ie Ethernet over the domestic 
 power cabling.  

Not yet. However, I have made some success - my wife can now login over
cable broadband - her work updated her laptop with a much more recent VPN
and it simply worked first time when she logged in yesterday. She is pleased
again !

As for the wireless, still a problem. There's something wrong (I think) in
my config of the router - when we connect via ethernet we get an IP from
cable (81.x.x.x) and a default gateway. When we try to connect via wireless
to the same router, it's dishing up it's own ip addresses (192.168.X.X) -
which is exaclt what used to happen when we had ADSL over the BT line, but
it appears that the internal LAN cannot see or talk to the external WAN. 

I need to get down and dirty in the config of the router again.

As for the upstairs-downstairs problem, we may have a solution :

put the cable modem in the bedroom (where one of the three cable connections
is) and have the router next to it. This is good because my wife can
wireless into her work from any room in the house. Run a cable from the
router downstairs to another router that we have downstairs and now we have
two wireless networks.

Who knows, it might just work. I hope so because downstairs is my office
with the main PC, printer etc - so we want to keep all that IT stuff out of
site.

Time will tell.


Thanks for the URL though - very useful.



Cheers,
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Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity!

[Dave Walker]

Norman,

Is the router you have designed for use with cable? If so it should have
one downstream Ethernet port for connection to the cable modem and one or
more upstream ones for your local equipment.  Sounds as if you just might be
trying to use an ADSL router incorrectly with the cable modem connected to
one what should be an upstream Ethernet port?

dave

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Morning Dave,

 It would be normal for a router to have a different IP address on the
 downstream side to the upstream side with the upstream side being of the
 192.168.0/1.x type of address for your local LAN and the gateway and DNS
is
 then set to be the router.   

Yep - I know that bit. That's how it was under Demon as well. The only
difference now is that instead of the router being connected to the ADSL
phone line (filter), I am now using one of the 4 Ethernet ports to connect
the modem into the router. I can't see how it makes a difference (yet) as
this set up works fine for Ethernet connections, just wireless is pants at
the moment!

The setup is cable-modem-router (port 1)  Then the internal equipment
(printer etc) will be connected to ports 2, 3 and 4 of the router. They
are/will be set to fetch an IP address form the router.

Now, this is interesting because they seem to be connecting directly to the
Virgin network and not seing the 192.168.x.x addresses - they all appear to
have an 81.x.x.x address instead.

I wonder if this is because the upstream side is not coming into the router
via the ADSL input - Hm.


 I for instance currently
 (and being cable it rarely changes) have a external IP address of
 82.22.94.182 supplied by Virgin, but all my local equipment on 192.168.1.x
 addresses with both Gateway and DNS set to 192.168.1.1 9which is the
router
 address).

That's what my wireless stuff looks like - but cannot connect. The wired
stuff all appears to have an IP on the Virgin network - nothing local at
all.


 Just a thought - is your router set to act a DHCP server - you
 want it to so it can deliver local addresses to your PC's, and that is
also
 where you set the address range to be used for the local subnet.

I can't remember offhand. I'll check it and see. It certainly looks like
that's how it works for the wireless anyway.


Cheers,
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Re: [ql-users] QMAC

[Dave Walker]

If your estimate for getting the source is accurate then I would not think
that is good value.  If it was an order of magnitude less then it would
probably be worthwhile so that QMAC could be updated.

In terms of the QMAC binary version does Quanta have to restrict itself to
providing it to Quanta members?  As the main use of QMAC is likely to be
someone who wants to work on SMSQE then providing it to anyone who expresses
a need for it is likely to be in the interests of Quanta members I would
have thought?   Anyone starting a new assembler project from scratch is more
likely to use GWASS or GWASS Lite as they are both free and supported.

Dave

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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QMAC


 On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:20:43 +0100, John Gilpin
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Following recent suggestions, I have been investigating the feasibility
 of
 purchasing a suitable license from the Software house that we currently
 pay
 royalties to for the software QMAC and QLinker. Although they have not
 ruled
 out the possibility of supplying us a license to cover 'indefinite sales
 for
 a one time fee', they have warned me that due to the passage of time, the
 source code has been archived and it would be extremely expensive to
 retrieve it.

 Can I ask those of you who were interested in this software to advise me
 if
 the source code is necessarily required or should I continue with my
 negotiations as outlined above without the source code being provided?

 Incidentally, their C.E.O. compliments us all on supporting the Sinclair
 QL
 for over 20 years.

 Best regards to all,


 Many thanks for investigating this - it would be interesting to know the
 cost of the one-off licence and the cost of retrieving the source codes.

It's not the cost of the license that's important but whether the money is 
being well spent. Hyperthetically, if it costs us £100 to make the software 
freely available to Quanta members, this is the equivalent of 20 copies at 
the £5 royalty fee. Are 20 members really interested in this software (only 
ONE reply to my query to date)

Regarding the search fee for the source code, I suspect that if it takes a 
week to find, there won't be much change out of say £2,500 to £3,000. How 
long is that piece of string?

 However, with tools such as DEAssembler and the knowledge within the QL
 world, there may be no need to actually obtain the sources.  After all,
 all we really want this free assembler for is to allow easy compiling of
 the smsq/e sources.

Well, that's the impression I got, but after a month or so, nearly everyone 
has forgotten about asking QUANTA to spend some money on their behalf so are

they really interested?

Where are all those software experts who wanted to upgrade SMSQ but needed 
the tools to do it with. QUANTA ARE interested in your requests (members and

non-members alike) but please don't throw down the gauntlet then run away 
and hide. - TALK TO US. Please.

Regards,

John Gilpin.(Treasurer)
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Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

[Dave Walker]

This certainly looks as if it could be of interest.The issue I see is
working out what modifications would be required to allow the output to be
generated as (or converted to) the SROFF format used under QDOS/SMSQ for
object files.

If that was done it would probably be quite trivial to adapt c68 to be able
to use this as one of the possible target 68k assemblers (it already
understands as68 and the GNU assembler).

Dave

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From: Stephen Usher

I'm sure assembling SMSQ/e on a 2GHz Athlon 64 box would be a darn sight
faster than any QL derivative. Once you have SMSQ/e compiled and onto a
suitable bootable media you can then start copying all the other
applications
across on the target system, as it's now running the new OS.

I am using AS by Alfred Arnold. It is open source multiplatform (windows,
dos, linux, epoc...) multiprocessor (mototola, zilog, intel...etc)
macroassembler. I am using it quite frequently for Z80 and 68k. AS supports
68k up to 68040. And the best thing is that it runs on Psion PDAs. This
assembler might be easily ported to QDOS/SMSQ. It is plain C, compiling
under C68 should work. 

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Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

[Dave Walker]

I have now looked at the documentation for this assembler, and it states
there that the assembler is not capable of generating linkable code.   This
would I fear make it non-viable as an option for assembling SMSQ/E and also
for use with v68.  A shame that as for a moment it looked exciting.

Dave

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From: Stephen Usher

I'm sure assembling SMSQ/e on a 2GHz Athlon 64 box would be a darn sight
faster than any QL derivative. Once you have SMSQ/e compiled and onto a
suitable bootable media you can then start copying all the other
applications
across on the target system, as it's now running the new OS.

I am using AS by Alfred Arnold. It is open source multiplatform (windows,
dos, linux, epoc...) multiprocessor (mototola, zilog, intel...etc)
macroassembler. I am using it quite frequently for Z80 and 68k. AS supports
68k up to 68040. And the best thing is that it runs on Psion PDAs. This
assembler might be easily ported to QDOS/SMSQ. It is plain C, compiling
under C68 should work. 

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Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.

[Dave Walker]

Neil,

Just remembered - there is a copy of the PTH_rext file on the C68 RUNTIME 2
disk (amongst other extras) and there is an example BOOT file there as well
with comments on how to use the various extensions.  A lot of the options in
the example BOOT file FOR c68 are purely in as REMark statements so they are
not activated unless you modify that BOOT file (or create a custom one of
your own).

Dave

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Sent: 22 February 2007 10:25
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.



 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 February 2007 10:18 

Neil,

No it is not the root folder.   Is the PATH device written by Phil
Borman.
Basically it allows multiple locations to be transparently searched
under a
single name just like is done via the PATH statement in Windows.   

This means you can open a file using a filename of the form
PTH1_FILENAME
and all locations associated with PTH1 will be searched for FILENAME.


I would highly recommend using it.

Dave

Yes, I can see how that would be very useful. I shall see how it is set
up on my machine
( via the boot program I suspect) and try to understand if it's being
utilised by anything.

Cheers
Neil
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Sent: 22 February 2007 10:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 guide for one who wants to know.

Dave,

Just reading the starting _doc file now and it is the sort of thing i
needed
to see first which leads me onto a something I've been meaning to
ask for
quite a while, if stightly off topic. 

What does pth1_ symbolize? My guess is thats it's the root directory
on
my HD
but what is it's purpose?

I'm reading through everyones responses, they are very useful.

Cheers
Neil 



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Re: [ql-users] win98se

[Dave Walker]

FAT16 has a theoretical limit of 4Gb, although it is recommended that you
keep to 2Gb or less because some software does not handle 4Gb correctly.

FAT32 has a theoretical limit of about 4TB, but limitations can come from
other directions. For instance under Windows XP, Disk Manager will not let
you set up or format a partition larger than 200Gb.  However if you do it
using 3rd party software this limit does not apply - and Windows XP will
handle the larger size disks quite happily - I know of a friend who has a
750Gb FAT32 disk.

That leaves open the question of what Win98SE can really handle.  As at the
time that Win98SE was common the larger disk sizes were not around I am not
sure that it is clear what is the largest size that can be handled.   It
really needs someone who is running Win98SE to plug in a large disk and see
what is the largest size that FDISK allows you to allocate to a FAT32
partition and that can then be successfully formatted.

If no-one knows for certain I could do some tests.

Dave

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I'm trying to help someone put QLay onto a PC they've bought and need 
a reminder on what is the largest hard disk Win98SE can format - is it 
6GB, 20GB or what?

WinXP can of course handle big disks, but from memory I seem to 
remember than Win98SE can't do NTFS format, for example - this person 
wants to install a new hard disk before he puts his emulator on and 
needs advice on what is the largest capacity of hard disk it can 
format.

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Re: [ql-users] Example ZIP needed

[Dave Walker]

Neil,

If you want the facility to write to PC format disks on a standard QL, then
try using my DiscOVER software that can be downloaded from my web page at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/download.htm

If you are using SMSQ/E, then this is unnecessary as SMSQ/E supports IBM
format disks directly.   

Makes one think that at the time I wrote this software PC's were still new
and not that common at home!  The main use for the IBM format initially was
the Atari ST!

Dave

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Sent: 07 February 2007 16:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Example ZIP needed

Thanks Peter. 

.ZIP and not _ZIP when saving to PC formatted disks, 
I guess the devils in the details !

Cheers
Neil
p.s. signing off till monday. Thanks for all your help guys
 you can relax now :-)


 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07 February 2007 16:21 
Hi Neil,

Save the zip file in Ram1_ and then copy to a PC floppy changing the 
name from Neil_zip to Neil.zip and it will save and can be emailed.

Hope this reaches you in time

Best Wishes,

Peter 

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Riley) wrote:

 *From:* Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *Date:* Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:22:53 +
 
 Thanks for that Dilwyn. 
 
 I now have my Zip file.
 
 Next problem is this. I wish to transfer those zips to my PC so i
can
 email them.
 Problem is I don't seem to be able to save the zip onto a PC
formatted
 3.5  if 
 i save on a QL formatted 3.5, my pc doesn't recognise it and asks
me
 if i want to 
 format it.
 
 Any help would be greatly received
 
 Neil
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07 February 2007 14:43 
 ex flp1_zip;'flp1_neil_zip ram1_*'
 
 or
 
 EX FLP1_ZIP;'-b ram1_ FLP1_NEIL_ZIP RAM1_*'
 
 (-b RAM1_ tells it where to place temporary files and * is a
standard
 wildcard which means all files in this location)
 
 Alternatively, here's a short superbasic program to do the job of
 zipping up all files in a given location:
 
 100 REMark aid to using ZIP program
 110 REMark needs EW command or equivalent
 120 CLS : CLS #0
 130 INPUT #0,'Zip up files from ';zipfrom$
 140 IF zipfrom$ = '' THEN STOP
 150 INPUT #0,'Filename of zip file  ';zipfile$
 160 IF zipfile$ = '' THEN STOP
 170 INPUT #0,'Zip program is on ';zipdrive$
 180 :
 190 PRINT #0,'Starting Zip program...'
 200 EW zipdrive$'zip';'-9 'zipfile$' 'zipfrom$'*'
 210 PRINT#0,'Program finished.'
 
 I've put a short article about Zip and Unzip onto my QL
Documentation
 page, if anyone wants a quick and simple introduction.
 http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qldocs.html 
 
 -- 
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 Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:20 AM
 Subject: [ql-users] Example ZIP needed
 
 
  Hi,
 
  Stupid newbie question time.
 
  I want to ZIP all the files on ram1_ into an archive called FRED
on
  flp1_.
  FRED_ZIP doesn't exist as yet. How do you do it.
 
  last time i used (dos) zip was probably 1994 and I've been spoilt
by
  windows
  ever since.
 
  Cheers
  Neil
 
 

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Re: [ql-users] Example ZIP needed

[Dave Walker]

Good point!

I will create a floppy disk image that can be written on the PC to QL format
standards and add that to my web page.   That should solve the boot-strap
problem.

There is also some software (cannot remember the name off-hand) that can be
run on a PC to handle QDOS format floppy disks.

Dave


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If you want the facility to write to PC format disks on a standard QL, then
try using my DiscOVER software that can be downloaded from my web page at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/download.htm

Of course, there is a bootstrap problem here... how do you get the file
you've
downloaded from the net over to the QL if the QL can't read IBM format
floppy
disks? :-)

QL-Kermit never did work very well and unless you're running Linux on your
PC
(and assuming that the PC has a serial port, which many don't these days)
it's
going to be difficult to get a Kermit server working. (Even under Linux I'm
not sure C-Kermit will compile anymore.)

If you are using SMSQ/E, then this is unnecessary as SMSQ/E supports IBM
format disks directly.   

Makes one think that at the time I wrote this software PC's were still new
and not that common at home!  The main use for the IBM format initially was
the Atari ST!

Ah, yes... I have one of those in my loft as well. (Along with a couple of
BBC-Bs, an RML 380Z and some other living fossils.)

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Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer

[Dave Walker]

Strange - all my PC's running XP have no problem using DD disks.

Dave

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 That is the first time I have heard of a PC only accepting HD disks?   HD
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 Maybe I should put up a QDOS HD floppy image as well as the DD one just in
 case?
He is dead right.  Qemulator warns about this and none of my machines
accept DD disks.
Apparently it is an XP issue.

Tony


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Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Boot up (KVM)

[Dave Walker]

Neil,

The 'config block' was an standard/approach defined many years ago for
configuring QDOS programs.  

To configure it you should have a program called menuconfig that you point
at the program to be configured - and then it reads the config block and
gives you an interactive interface for setting all the options.

Dave


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Roy
You wouldn't be so kind as to steer me towards this 'config block',
I have discovered that nothing is obvious with the QL ( well, maybe 
it is after 20+ years !! ) so I shan't automatically asume editing it
is 
a simple matter.

Neil

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I know what it probably is.  SMSQ defaults to its own mouse driver. 
I
forget exactly what, but you have to change its config block to stop
it
grabbing the clicks.  You see cursor movement probably because it
doesn't manage to capture all mouse movement signals.
It is 'Do You Wish To Ignore The QIMI mouse?' Should be set to yes
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Re: [ql-users] The Quill, Infocom?

[Dave Walker]

Anyone know what the copyright status is on all the Infocom games?  I have
several CD's worth (Best of Infocom I and II)that I orginally got to play on
my Psion 5 - but they should also work on the QL Infocom interpreter if it
is legal to distribute them.

Dave

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:49:42 -, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard
 Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

 Richard (I should join the club. I should also buy SMSQ/E but I don't
 actually know what it costs, or what it does - how it would affect my
 fairly light/trivial QL usage, but with a SCG and monitor etc, my QL
 is rather nice and I seem to keep wanting things for it!).

 SMSQ/E is £27 from Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 or EUR 39.90 from Jochen Merx ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Jochen also has a special 10% off, offer on a range of software and no
 postage charge, up to 24th December 2006.

 For games and other software, as well as second user hardware, etc, look
 up Rich Mellor's site at ... http://www.wrapsoftware.co.uk


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Re: [ql-users] setting qptr to a window

[Dave Walker]

There are some low level routines in the C68 libraries that might be of use
in resolving this issue?

   fgetchid- Used to find out what QDOS channel is associated with a
given stdio channel
   fusechid- Used to associate a QDOS channel id with a stdio
channel

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] setting qptr to a window


 James Hunkins wrote:
  When I do the pulldown call it sets up the dropdown menu as a sub-
  window.  I verified this by getting the returned channel from a set
  to the window _wm.swinf) from the call and doing a clear.  It cleared
  the sub-window (loose item) of the drop down menu properly so PE does
  see it properly.

 OK, I've no clue about all this stuff and am strictly speaking out of
 my back orifice, but as far as I know printf doesn't take a channel
 number and strictly prints to stdout. Which doesn't need to be the
 channel wm.swinf returns. Perhaps you could try using io_sstrg with
 the channel number wm.swinf returned.

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Re: [ql-users] MultiDiscover and a CD ROM

[Dave Walker]

Rich,

The check that is done to try and recognise if a Qubide is present is to
look through the physical device definition blocks for the one that has
WIN0 as the physical device name, and then at offset $110 within the block
it looks for a string of the form n.nn where 'n' can be any numeric
character.

This worked fine on QL based systems, but I have no idea if this check would
be valid on an Aurora system?   If not and a different check can be
identified it would be easy enough to change the check routine in Discover.

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] MultiDiscover and a CD ROM


 On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:07:33 +0100, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  1. Is it a registered multi-discover (in case it's an option not
  available on the theoretically freeware Discovers which you still have
  to register at no charge to get full functionality)

 It is a registered multi-discover freshly downloaded from Dave's site.

  2. Is the CD a PC CD or a QXL.WIN CD?

 A PC CD-ROM

  3. The Qubide has to be a recent version, able to read alien disks.
  The facility to read DOS formatted cartridges was introduced in v1.53
  but I don't know if CD-ROM access was also introduced at that version
  or later (V2.00 ROMs needed upgrade of 2 GAL chips on the Qubide,
  don't know exactly what the changes to those chips did to the Qubide).

 v2.01 ROMs are present.

  4. Might be worth checking if Thierry's ATAPI drivers will let you
  access IDE CD drives on Qubide, though you might need programs like
  QCDEZE or QXLWIN to fully use it.

 Might be an idea to try - anyone have any experience

  Dave Walker does lurk on this list, hopefully he'll pop up with an
  answer specific to Discover.

 I emailed Dave - he appeared puzzled !

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Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

[Dave Walker]

James,

The header is correct - it defines a memory structure in QDOS, not a
structure designed for use with C.   As such the definition is fixed and
cannot be changed.   You will find that under QDOS all strings are preceded
by a 2-byte field that defines the length of the following string, and
strings are not zero-terminated.   When programming in C one should always
therefore take account of this, and make sure that you use the length
limiting variants of copies and moves as you cannot assume a zero
termination to such strings.

It can be advantageous to look at the .hdr versions of the header files
supplied on one of the source disks.These include comments which can
make the files much easier to peruse.   You can also rename them and put
them in place of the supplied .h files which have been processed to remove
all comments and formatting to reduce their size for those using floppy
based systems.  Those using hard disk based systems are better off using the
commented versions

Dave
.
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From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file


 Guys,

 I think that I found a bug in the qlib_h include file used by C68.
 Here are the details:

 In the 'qdirect' structure, the member 'd_name' is defined as:
 char d_name[36];

 This works as long as the directory/file name is 35 or fewer
 characters and holds a properly terminated C string (terminates with
 a '0').  However, if the total name length is actually 36 characters,
 then there is no termination.  As far as I can tell the structure
 does properly hold everything and isn't corrupt, just no termination
 in that one case.

 This might explain why in a few problems with long file names, I see
 handling problems but not in others (compiled in C68 versus assembly
 or compiled SBASIC for example?).

 If I am correct this structure should define it as:

 char d_name[37];

 to allow room for the termination character of a C string.

 Jim

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Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

[Dave Walker]

James,

QDOS strings in C68 are normally represented by 2 fields as follows:

unsigned short d_szname; /* size of name */
char d_name[36]; /* name area */

the first being a short with the length, and the next being a char field
with the contents.   In your case it is actually working by 'luck' in that
QDOS tends to zero fill the unused space.This is however not guaranteed
behaviour, and as you noted  your code will fail if the name is the maximum
allowed.   If you wanted to write bullet-proof C code you would use the
preceeding length field (d_szname) to tell you how much is valid in the
d_name field.   Also the QDOS format allows for 0 characters to be part of
the name, and again with your code this would fail as it would assume the 0
byte was the name terminator rather than part of the name itself.

Dave

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From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file


 Hi Guys,

 Three things were fooling me:

 1) I was calling this using a C function so I 'assumed' that it was
 converting to C strings

 2) when I grab the string, if under 36 characters, it always seems to
 have a 0 termination at the end
 [ assembly might be right filling the string with this ]

 3) I do not see the first values at the start of the string for length
- I can handle this as a C string and have no garbage at the
 beginning and it terminates properly if  36 chars

 The way I am using this is:

 DIR_LIST_t *tFileList;

 GetFileType(tFileList-dl_dir.d_name); /* calling function */

 short GetFileType(char *FileName)
 {
 printf(FileName: [%s]\n, FileName); /* this prints out the
 filename just fine if  36 chars */

 }


 Unless I am missing something, it seems that the C call (haven't had
 time to dig up the source file yet) does at last a partial conversion
 from the QDOS structure.  Whether it on purpose adds the termination
 for items  36 chars or not, don't know.

 With that said, going to take a break outside now that the rain has
 'stopped' for a bit (3 day weekend, last of summer = rain).

 Cheers,
 jim


 On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Dave Walker wrote:

  James,
 
  The header is correct - it defines a memory structure in QDOS, not a
  structure designed for use with C.   As such the definition is
  fixed and
  cannot be changed.   You will find that under QDOS all strings are
  preceded
  by a 2-byte field that defines the length of the following string, and
  strings are not zero-terminated.   When programming in C one should
  always
  therefore take account of this, and make sure that you use the length
  limiting variants of copies and moves as you cannot assume a zero
  termination to such strings.
 
  It can be advantageous to look at the .hdr versions of the header
  files
  supplied on one of the source disks.These include comments
  which can
  make the files much easier to peruse.   You can also rename them
  and put
  them in place of the supplied .h files which have been processed to
  remove
  all comments and formatting to reduce their size for those using
  floppy
  based systems.  Those using hard disk based systems are better off
  using the
  commented versions
 
  Dave
  .
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  From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 3:18 PM
  Subject: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file
 
 
  Guys,
 
  I think that I found a bug in the qlib_h include file used by C68.
  Here are the details:
 
  In the 'qdirect' structure, the member 'd_name' is defined as:
  char d_name[36];
 
  This works as long as the directory/file name is 35 or fewer
  characters and holds a properly terminated C string (terminates with
  a '0').  However, if the total name length is actually 36 characters,
  then there is no termination.  As far as I can tell the structure
  does properly hold everything and isn't corrupt, just no termination
  in that one case.
 
  This might explain why in a few problems with long file names, I see
  handling problems but not in others (compiled in C68 versus assembly
  or compiled SBASIC for example?).
 
  If I am correct this structure should define it as:
 
  char d_name[37];
 
  to allow room for the termination character of a C string.
 
  Jim
 
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