RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions
Binary words in MC68000 are MSB LSB but the same on intel will be LSB MSB (and the Z80 is that way araoiund as well). Why ? Must be a hardware thing, I always write my numbers MSB LSB myself. The reason, as I heard it, was to save clock cycles in indexed addressing modes. If you fetch the LSB of the address/offset first, you can be adding the LSB of the index/base to it while fetching the MSB. Intel CPUs did not have indexed addressing until 8086/88 so the technique was redundant really. The 6502 had indexed addressing and 8 bit ALU so little-endian architecture did save clock cycles. I guess the designers fall into either the big-endian or little-endian camps and stay there, even when they move on and set up new companies, or new product ranges. Once you've chosen a particular architecture, compatibility across the range becomes a consideration too. Ian. -Original Message- From: Norman Dunbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 April 2002 11:29 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions Wolfgang, it's not 'stupid' it's Intel 'little Endian' format. OK, it *is* stupid :o) Binary words in MC68000 are MSB LSB but the same on intel will be LSB MSB (and the Z80 is that way araoiund as well). Why ? Must be a hardware thing, I always write my numbers MSB LSB myself. I'm sure Nasta will know why it is/was done this way around. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions On 23 Apr 2002, at 16:27, Phoebus Dokos wrote: Yep it works and the interesting part is that unfortunately he cannot test it himself as his CF adapter has some problems which I hope he'll soon solve either by a minor change or by a replacement (by me). Talk about SuperScalar programming... It works even if you don't use the device yourself! Well, all the kudos here must go to hell, I don't know, whoever is responsible for the Compact Flash reader behaving like a hard drive. Actually, you just open a winx_*d2d file to the hard disk that is the compact flash reader. With one exception, it then behaves like a normal hard disk. So, to test this I just used another partition... The exception is that a compact disk stroes bytes within a word in teh wrong order. Normally, the first four bytes in a QL hard disk partition are QLWA. Don't ask me what it means, I can undertand the QL part, but the rest... Well, anyway, on a compact flash, this would be LQAW. Stupid, really. The software takes care of that. Oh, and whilst we're talking about partitions, there is a curious feature of partitions and accessing them via a winx_*d2d file on the Q60. Suppose you have a hard disk with 3 partitions (all 3 of them QL partitions of course, none of that Linux stuff :-) ) You would probably use something like: win_drive 1,0,0,0 win_drive 2,0,0,1 win_drive 3,0,0,2 to access the different partitions. You would then expect a win3_*d2d direct sector access file to open to the 3rd partition on the drive - not so, IT WILL OPEN to the very first sector of the physical disk (i.e. the partition table)- the same for win1_*d2d and win2_*d2d. It's not a problem, as long as you are aware of this. Wolfgang This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell
RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions I generally write my numbers with a keyboard, myself. :-) PEDANTIC I use a pen or pencil to write them. I type them on a keyboard /PEDANTIC :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
Re: [ql-users] QCDEZE
At 02:58 ðì 24/4/2002, you wrote: Thanks. But I cant get it to work.. It stops with QCDEZE Line 19330 BGET , or a similar message on a different line. cdrom_explorer_bas works. /Michael Michael, you have probably the same problem I had with it... I will send you my copy privately which corrects that Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] c68 question
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:12:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of this can be done with xargs as well ... I haven't looked at xargs yet, in fact I've played with Unix very little since I've had the Q40. I must try to find the time to install it on a spare PC here at work - won't be allowed to connect it to the network unfortunately. You can also install it on a spare partition of the Q40 at home. xargs is sort of a cut down full command substitution, small example: find . -name '*.c' -print | xargs is equivalent to grep '#include' `find . -name '*.c' -print ` and will find all includes used in all .c files in or below current directory. You can of course do xargs command arg1 ... last-args to read the arguments from a file instead of a pipe. It is a separate program so it would work with c68 and all sorts of other programs but it may cause rather largish stack-space allocated to pass the args if the arg-file or pipe is really big. I can email you the manpage of xargs privately. Richard
[ql-users] spamcop.net
I tried sending a message to the list earlier, and got this back: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions Sent: 24/04/02 13:45 The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/04/02 13:46 There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. gate2.ldn.ubswarburg.com #5.5.0 SMTP; 550-Blocked - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?139.149.1.38 Not sure whether the message was blocked by the bank's server or the list server. Anyone else seen anything like this? Ian. Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
Re: [ql-users] spamcop.net
At 10:09 ðì 24/4/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried sending a message to the list earlier, and got this back: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions Sent: 24/04/02 13:45 The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/04/02 13:46 There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. gate2.ldn.ubswarburg.com #5.5.0 SMTP; 550-Blocked - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?139.149.1.38 Not sure whether the message was blocked by the bank's server or the list server. Anyone else seen anything like this? Ian. Yeah and that's why: http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=139.149.1.38%3E Phoebus
RE: [ql-users] spamcop.net
Yeah and that's why: http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=139.149.1.38%3E Phoebus Well, if that was an explanation of why I was blocked (and I suppose it would be for network gurus) it goes way over my head. How come it just picked one message at random to block? Ian. -Original Message- From: Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 April 2002 15:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] spamcop.net At 10:09 ðì 24/4/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried sending a message to the list earlier, and got this back: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: RE: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions Sent: 24/04/02 13:45 The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/04/02 13:46 There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. gate2.ldn.ubswarburg.com #5.5.0 SMTP; 550-Blocked - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?139.149.1.38 Not sure whether the message was blocked by the bank's server or the list server. Anyone else seen anything like this? Ian. Yeah and that's why: http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=139.149.1.38%3E Phoebus Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
RE: [ql-users] c68 question
Richard, Seeing your example has reminded me that I did use xargs sometime back in the last century when I was working with Unix regularly/exclusively. Alas, I don't have a large disk in the Q40 at the moment, and the smaller one in there now is fully partitioned for SMSQ/E. I do have a box running FreeBSD so I can play with xargs on there next chance I get. For the Q40 I need a bigger box, an additional IDE card for a second disk and CDROM, and for scientists to figure out how to slow down the Earth's spin to 32 hours, then I'll be able to get Linux back on it again. ;O) Thanks for offering to send the xargs manpage - if I can't find it at home I'll take you up on that. cheers, Ian. -Original Message- From: Richard Zidlicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 April 2002 13:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 question On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:12:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of this can be done with xargs as well ... I haven't looked at xargs yet, in fact I've played with Unix very little since I've had the Q40. I must try to find the time to install it on a spare PC here at work - won't be allowed to connect it to the network unfortunately. You can also install it on a spare partition of the Q40 at home. xargs is sort of a cut down full command substitution, small example: find . -name '*.c' -print | xargs is equivalent to grep '#include' `find . -name '*.c' -print ` and will find all includes used in all .c files in or below current directory. You can of course do xargs command arg1 ... last-args to read the arguments from a file instead of a pipe. It is a separate program so it would work with c68 and all sorts of other programs but it may cause rather largish stack-space allocated to pass the args if the arg-file or pipe is really big. I can email you the manpage of xargs privately. Richard Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
RE: [ql-users] c68 question
Ooops, I think I kind of lost the plot with that last reply. You were telling me that there is a version of xargs for SMSQ/E and I started wittering on about not having a spare partition for Linux! duh! It's been a long day, I'm getting ready to go home... :o) Ian. -Original Message- From: Pine, Ian Sent: 24 April 2002 17:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] c68 question Richard, Seeing your example has reminded me that I did use xargs sometime back in the last century when I was working with Unix regularly/exclusively. Alas, I don't have a large disk in the Q40 at the moment, and the smaller one in there now is fully partitioned for SMSQ/E. I do have a box running FreeBSD so I can play with xargs on there next chance I get. For the Q40 I need a bigger box, an additional IDE card for a second disk and CDROM, and for scientists to figure out how to slow down the Earth's spin to 32 hours, then I'll be able to get Linux back on it again. ;O) Thanks for offering to send the xargs manpage - if I can't find it at home I'll take you up on that. cheers, Ian. -Original Message- From: Richard Zidlicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 April 2002 13:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] c68 question On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:12:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of this can be done with xargs as well ... I haven't looked at xargs yet, in fact I've played with Unix very little since I've had the Q40. I must try to find the time to install it on a spare PC here at work - won't be allowed to connect it to the network unfortunately. You can also install it on a spare partition of the Q40 at home. xargs is sort of a cut down full command substitution, small example: find . -name '*.c' -print | xargs is equivalent to grep '#include' `find . -name '*.c' -print ` and will find all includes used in all .c files in or below current directory. You can of course do xargs command arg1 ... last-args to read the arguments from a file instead of a pipe. It is a separate program so it would work with c68 and all sorts of other programs but it may cause rather largish stack-space allocated to pass the args if the arg-file or pipe is really big. I can email you the manpage of xargs privately. Richard Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
Re: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Fabrizio Diversi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claus , dont forgot to mention that qxlwin works very well also with Compact Flash card . Ciao Fabrizio I just didn't know. Is it true then, that it works with every device, that has direct sector access (win, flp,..)? Claus
Re: [ql-users] spamcop.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure whether the message was blocked by the bank's server or the list server. Anyone else seen anything like this? Well, messages from my SMTP server just get ignored completely because of one of those blacklists (a different one, relays.osirusoft.com). It's quite annoying, I have to use a different server for the time being. If it was only one message, perhaps they're experimenting with the server setup. Marcel
RE: [ql-users] QCDEZE
Hello, What are you running it on? Phoebus Dokos had this problem can arise on SMSQ/E with version less than 2.98. I produced a version with a work around for Phoebos Dokos while I am working on an upgrade. Duncan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Grunditz Sent: 24 April 2002 07:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QCDEZE Thanks. But I cant get it to work.. It stops with QCDEZE Line 19330 BGET , or a similar message on a different line. cdrom_explorer_bas works. /Michael Hi, I have corrected the broken link to Thiery's site. You can now download it from q40.de again. Claus
RE: [ql-users] QCDEZE
At 03:00 ìì 24/4/2002, Duncan Neithercut wrote: Hello, What are you running it on? Phoebus Dokos had this problem can arise on SMSQ/E with version less than 2.98. I produced a version with a work around for Phoebos Dokos while I am working on an upgrade. Duncan Duncan, I sent him the upgrade and he still can't make it work. I advised him to contact you. Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:15:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Apr 2002, at 11:28, Norman Dunbar wrote: Wolfgang, it's not 'stupid' it's Intel 'little Endian' format. I know, I know, it's still stupid. OK, it *is* stupid :o) Yeah right. Why doesn't the same thing happen in a QXL.WIN file under QPC on a hard disk (answer: Marcel isn't stupid). nope, the problem is more complicated, I guess you have formatted that QXL.WIN file on a QPC drive. On Q40/Q60 and Atari the IDE bus is connected to the CPU bus in such a way that data comming from the HD appears 16-bit byte reversed as compared when you attach the same drive to PC-ish hardware. Traditionally swapping hard disks was not seen as useful or common enough to compensate this in software, afaics only Linux has an option for it. To make matters more interesting, the bus-order and cpu-order accidentally eliminate each other's effect when 16 bit data is accessed and the drive contains little endian data. To summarise: there is a bus-endian and a cpu-endianness issue. CPU is the same for QPC and Q40/Q60 so you only see the bus-endian issue. If you want to use Q40 hard disks on PC hardware you need to use the 'hdX=swapdata' option (linux) for this drive.. anyone knows equivalent option for WinXX? Richard
Re: [ql-users] QeyMail question...
But it's not true about me and that sheep! ;) You should ask Dilwyn about the sheep and the haystack ! I bribed you to stay quiet about that one, so I'll have the money back with interest please ;-)) In case anyone wonders, a few years ago I injured my back on my father's farm trying to help him get a stray sheep down off a haystack and part of the haystack collapsed under us, and of course I was rather careless in how I phrased it to Roy, I should have known better with Roy, the actual words I used were something like I injured my back in an incident involving a sheep and a haystack... So there Dave, NEVER make comments you might regret in the future to Roy Wood of all people. Guess I should have read Norman Dunbar's article about handling stacks properly in QReview magazine at the time (there...back on topic in no time at all!) -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
Re: [ql-users] QeyMail question...
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 at 21:50:14, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: 000901c1ebdb$0307e9e0$d7065cc3@default) But it's not true about me and that sheep! ;) You should ask Dilwyn about the sheep and the haystack ! I bribed you to stay quiet about that one, so I'll have the money back with interest please ;-)) In case anyone wonders, a few years ago I injured my back on my father's farm trying to help him get a stray sheep down off a haystack and part of the haystack collapsed under us, and of course I was rather careless in how I phrased it to Roy, I should have known better with Roy, the actual words I used were something like I injured my back in an incident involving a sheep and a haystack... How was the sheep (8-)# -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tonysurname,demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
Re: [ql-users] QCDEZE
I had problems with QCDEZE on the Q60, but it was solved a long time ago, pre-Hove meeting, with the IDE driver, it seems that the IDE CDROM driver I was using, did not work correctly. The version on the Q60 Distribution disks works with QCDEZE, which is very good. Derek - Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] QCDEZE Hello, What are you running it on? Phoebus Dokos had this problem can arise on SMSQ/E with version less than 2.98. I produced a version with a work around for Phoebos Dokos while I am working on an upgrade. Duncan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Grunditz Sent: 24 April 2002 07:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QCDEZE Thanks. But I cant get it to work.. It stops with QCDEZE Line 19330 BGET , or a similar message on a different line. cdrom_explorer_bas works. /Michael Hi, I have corrected the broken link to Thiery's site. You can now download it from q40.de again. Claus
Re: [ql-users] Re: QBOX-USA
It was actually more expensive to call Michigan (It is Michigan isn't it?) Yes, Detroit area. Indeed the files were very old and you could tell they weren't maintained as a message I left never got answered... That's not by any means a bad thing, every one has a personal life and hobbies many times take too much time out of it. Sorry about that, if I read it I must not have had the chance to reply immediately and then forgot about it. Never enough time to spend on all my hobbies. I just wish I could find a way to make a living at them. -- John Impellizzeri mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ql-users] Re: QBOX-USA
You may have many unique files help nowhere else. Would it be possible for you to archive the whole thing and make it available for a small fee, or send a copy to a couple of the people running PD libraries so they can see what fills gaps in their collection? Also, maybe it is possible to do a superBBS on the web, combining all the files of all the BBS out there? This again for archiving purposes... Just a thought... (all lonely and scared by the isolation, I assure you!) I have thought about archiving the files and making them available via CD or FTP, web site, etc. But I really doubt we had anything that isn't already available elsewhere. Most of what I started out with were files I downloaded from Tony's and Jochen's BBS's. Later on we set up to receive files automatically from Tony when they were released to the Fido file areas. I will see about retrieving the file lists and looking for anything unique or local but I seriously doubt there will be anything. -- John Impellizzeri mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ql-users] Re: QBOX-USA
At 07:51 ìì 24/4/2002, John Impellizzeri wrote: It was actually more expensive to call Michigan (It is Michigan isn't it?) Yes, Detroit area. Indeed the files were very old and you could tell they weren't maintained as a message I left never got answered... That's not by any means a bad thing, every one has a personal life and hobbies many times take too much time out of it. Sorry about that, if I read it I must not have had the chance to reply immediately and then forgot about it. Never enough time to spend on all my hobbies. I just wish I could find a way to make a living at them. Don't we all :-) Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] QeyMail question...
On 24 Apr 2002, at 21:50, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Guess I should have read Norman Dunbar's article about handling stacks properly in QReview magazine at the time (there...back on topic in no time at all!) And how do yu explain the sheep in that context? grin Wolfgang
Re: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06 and partitions
On 24 Apr 2002, at 22:59, Richard Zidlicky wrote: nope, the problem is more complicated, I guess you have formatted that QXL.WIN file on a QPC drive. That's true. On Q40/Q60 and Atari the IDE bus is connected to the CPU bus in such a way that data comming from the HD appears 16-bit byte reversed as compared when you attach the same drive to PC-ish hardware. Oh, so it still is the wrong way round on the drive? Traditionally swapping hard disks was not seen as useful or common enough to compensate this in software, afaics only Linux has an option for it. It's true that I don't often take the disk out of the Q60 to put it in a PC - what with hotswappable drives... So, if I did this,the content of a QXLWIN file would seem to be byte reversed? To summarise: there is a bus-endian and a cpu-endianness issue. CPU is the same for QPC and Q40/Q60 so you only see the bus-endian issue. If you want to use Q40 hard disks on PC hardware you need to use the 'hdX=swapdata' option (linux) for this drive.. anyone knows equivalent option for WinXX? No, never heard of it. Wolfgang
Re: [ql-users] QXLWIN v1.06
On 24 Apr 2002, at 15:59, Claus Graf wrote: I just didn't know. Is it true then, that it works with every device, that has direct sector access (win, flp,..)? No, flp probably won't work, because th direct sector addressing there is very special (depends on the type of disk, too). The latest version is 1.07 Wolfgang
[ql-users] Web site almost done...
Hi all, the new address of the website is www.dokos-gr.net From there you'll be able to access most of my pages (Proforma fonts etc..., Web Graphic design, music photography all of which I am sure are of no importance :-)) as well as Thierry's QDOS-SMSQ/E software repository (With a new logo now), Dilwyn's mirror (With a new logo as well) and the new RWAP Software page (again with a new logo ;-) Please note that only the SMS repository (and not suppository Dave!) and RWAP Software links are currently active, but I expect them all to be active within the weekend. Phoebus
