Re: [ql-users] C68 linker error message
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In-Reply-To: wr$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Malcolm On Sunday you can see. But I will be cheating, having acquired a 1ghz machine to run qpc2 on! I was expecting as much :-) I am sure that the software has leapt on in leaps and bounds. -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Looking for full set of QLUB (Sinclairs QL Users B ureau newsletter)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm, http://www.daneprairie.com form WIN2PDF Thanks, yet you believe it is only for Win 98 and later ? I am sticking with Win 95 here ... until I have a bigger hard disk anyway :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Spectrum Emulators
In article 002a01c16125$bb8dc840$aa01a8c0@ergonnotebook, Davide Santachiara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Dear Darren, First of all thanks for your review of ZeXcel... I think that it's a very nice piece of software too (ok I'm the co-author...). ZeXcel is probably the best one to be updated for GD2 use if any are, as its the most recent of all QL Spectrum emulators, and works on all systems I've tried, plus its pointer driven, and overall is very polished. It already uses some clever shading techniques to give the illusion of 8 colours of the Spectrum when you are actually running it in MODE 4 on the QL. There are a vast range of configurable options in it - ie. you can run games in monochrome to speed them up if running on a slower system. Maybe Davide can throw more light on this if he is listening. Davide? As you already pointed out the work on ZeXcel stopped many years ago. Unfortunately both Marco Ternelli (the author of the 68k core) and me have no more time to work on a new version for GD2. Honestly I don't even think that we would need a GD2 version because even when ZeXcel was made freeware I had almost no feedback from users (apart from a nice guy who tried it on WIN and wondered why it didn't work...) ZeXcel is a super bit of work for anyone wanting an emulator of the Spectrum. It is good to look at, it works, and you can configure it for your own needs ... what else would you require :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Will my QL-friends and others help me??
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arvid Børretzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I look at this newsgroup almost each day, even it is years since I used a QL for other thing then test if it boots. To me it looks like a group of friends that has a common thing to chat about. Few new programs are mentioned, and a discussion about Freddy W is going on for a long time. It was the friendship that was (and surely is) the difference between QDOS and Windows. I never felt it was money that keeps QDOS going. Feel free to join in too :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha
In article 004201c15da3$56ff2a20$d3065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes So does my wife (she says over my shoulder) He .. he .. still spending too much time with the QL then :-) -- Malcolm Cadman He he, how did you guess??? Well, I guess she has taken it all on board, and that 'QL-time' is still very valuable time. As long as you are not 'hogging' her computer :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha
In article 002401c15d25$5a4307c0$a4065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Doh ! ... who dat Dilwyn fella then :-) I disclaim all knowledge of him nudge So does my wife (she says over my shoulder) He .. he .. still spending too much time with the QL then :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddie Vachha
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Freddie Vachha, pronounced Vakha, when he was in Quanta was probably the most robust member we had. He was absolutely tireless and would talk endlessly about anything that took his interest. He was amusing with it too. Once after a trip to Holland with a bus load of us he used the magazine to compliment the then chairman and bus driver, Phil Borman, on his driving with the phrase No kerb untouched. At workshop after workshop he promised me he would see that Perfection had decimal tabs. It still hasn't.Quill had them from day one. If anyone knows where he is please let me know He .. he ... a case for Sherlock Holmes ? -- Malcolm Cadman QLamentry dear Malcolm Trust you, Bill, to solve the 'Mysterious case of the Vakha' :-) Dr Watson is writing in his diary by the light of a desklamp. Holmes is slumped in deep thought in a nearby chair ... ( continue the story ! ) -- Malcolm Cadman After selling hand over fist for the last year The Hound of the Vaskavilles(sp?) we now bring you Super Hound of the Vaskavilles, more clues, more pages, bigger and better fonts, 3,9765^7 different endings, start from any address in Baker Street, Pipes ( more than one). Only DP ( Detective Publications ) could bring you this product. Sound familiar No time to waste, Watson, we must be off to QLtown tonight before that fool Inspector Lastrard of QL Yard misses all the clues ... Remember to bring a copy of Detective Publications with you for the train journey ... yet I warrant we must make haste, or else we may be too late ! -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] o.uk cc: Sent by:Subject: Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha owner-ql-users@n vg.ntnu.no 24/10/2001 22:56 Please respond to ql-users ( Also ... why does it do this weird header ... see above ? ) Malcolm Cadman wrote:- Time to get your own account then ... ? I already have 3 of those, and don't have time to look at any of them - 10-15 hour days often 6 and 7 days a week don't allow much time for dialling into email accounts! The bank system works on a very quick lease line, I have lethally quick upload and download times which is great for huge files (I emailed a 200Mb Star Trek Enterprise episode to a friend just now, actually the pilot for the new series!) , and its permanently connected and available all day everyday to me. Its either this or no Darren on the mailing list at all - Sorry! OK ... message understood ... if it available on the firms time ! Cheers, Darren. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail from your system. Thank you. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. ... end of long email. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddie Vachha
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Freddie Vachha, pronounced Vakha, when he was in Quanta was probably the most robust member we had. He was absolutely tireless and would talk endlessly about anything that took his interest. He was amusing with it too. Once after a trip to Holland with a bus load of us he used the magazine to compliment the then chairman and bus driver, Phil Borman, on his driving with the phrase No kerb untouched. At workshop after workshop he promised me he would see that Perfection had decimal tabs. It still hasn't.Quill had them from day one. If anyone knows where he is please let me know He .. he ... a case for Sherlock Holmes ? -- Malcolm Cadman QLamentry dear Malcolm Trust you, Bill, to solve the 'Mysterious case of the Vakha' :-) Dr Watson is writing in his diary by the light of a desklamp. Holmes is slumped in deep thought in a nearby chair ... ( continue the story ! ) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddy Vachha
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman wrote:- Shows how quickly you can get out of touch ... :-) ... wasn't Freddy one of the 'leading lights' in the QL world for some time ? Yep. Most of the decent software for years was produced by either DP or a bloke called Dilwyn Jones of DJC (whoever he is) :-)) I remember the way Freddy could put away food too, 2 or 3 plates at a time! Doh ! ... who dat Dilwyn fella then :-) Darren - are we stuck with your long long signature ? ... :-( Afraid So. Its preprogrammed by the bank and appended to all outgoing messages, sorry about that. I can get rid of the address/phone no's, and personal sig, but the pathetic disclaimer will have to stay... Time to get your own account then ... ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Freddie Vachha
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I don't seem to be getting through, this is my third try with this. -- From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:44:44 +0100 To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Freddie Vachha Freddie Vachha, pronounced Vakha, when he was in Quanta was probably the most robust member we had. He was absolutely tireless and would talk endlessly about anything that took his interest. He was amusing with it too. Once after a trip to Holland with a bus load of us he used the magazine to compliment the then chairman and bus driver, Phil Borman, on his driving with the phrase No kerb untouched. At workshop after workshop he promised me he would see that Perfection had decimal tabs. It still hasn't.Quill had them from day one. If anyone knows where he is please let me know He .. he ... a case for Sherlock Holmes ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes B. Wrong. It refers to a bigger microdrive like device, with magnetic tape. The same infinite tape trick as in microdrive, no rewind needed. It was the alternative to floppy. (or the evolution of classical tape). ZN wrote:- Bzzz - you are both wrong! First, it was not a tape. Do not confuse WM with something that was a tape, loop tapes similar to microdrives just much larger (they looked know, they never made it to the QL, and that's a good thing too. Bzzz.. Spot on, Nasta. I still have a wafadrive with my Spectrum and several dozen tapes. They were made by Rotronics, and I bought mine new. Still have the original packaging and the lot. They are a little smaller than a standard audio tape, in fact they were often sold in blank audio cassette boxes instead of a custom made container for them. I even have some commercial software I bought on wafadrive!! So, what was ( is ) the performance like ... ? Keep the whole lot as you have a 'collectors' item :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In article 3BD046D3.18653.10B3805@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 17 Oct 2001, at 20:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Also, do not forget that the first microdrives were intended to be only the start of a whole range of innovative new ways for mass storage. Clive subsequently 'lost' a lot of his 'millions' investing in plant and research to produce new devices that would have developed and owned, and sold to the world. Wafer memory... Yes ... it did prove to be 'wafer thin' ... :-) Although IBM have now got a mass storage device out called a 'microdrive', too. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Big snip :-) The wafer technology was of course based on chip technology and design and testing procedures of the time. Today it would actually be easyer to produce them as things like mid-process testing, late stage metalization, flash memory, entifuses etc. are well suited and well known technologies for wafer scale integration. Originally, Catt intended this to be a (parallel) computer on a wafer (in fact, his 'spiral' patent was later superceeded by something called the 'kernel machine'). Memory was initially intended as a 'back door' to peddle the concept and bring it to a mass market. Today, using it as solid state memory would actually immediately find a market in various devices that use flash chips. Very interesting, Nasta. As you say the technology is always moving on, and what was 'difficult' to achieve 10 to 15 years ago, is now everyday technology. So, the patents for Sinclairs' version of 'wafers' has long since gone to other companies ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Stafford Show
In message 007601c1574d$89b19720$d0d8fea9@john, John Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Nothing more on a Stafford Show then? John in Wales PS The new look QUANTA has given me back my eyesight ;) Unfortunately enforced by lack of content ... ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again added to the selling price ? I was told that, just before the QL was due for release, someone showed Sir Clive one of the 'new' 3.5 drives and said it would fit into the same space as the microdrives. He is reported to have said 'That will never catch on' This is probably an apocraphal (is this spelled right Geoff ?) story but I like it. More an 'urban myth' :-) ... the business decisions were on cost, weight, appearance, etc ... plus Clive owned the rights to microdrives so he was about to make far more 'dosh' for himself ! ( With a disk drive he would have paid rights to someone else ). Also, do not forget that the first microdrives were intended to be only the start of a whole range of innovative new ways for mass storage. Clive subsequently 'lost' a lot of his 'millions' investing in plant and research to produce new devices that would have developed and owned, and sold to the world. Looking back from where we are now, and the development of hardware that has taken place, it seems odd that any 'individual' tried to do what he tried to do. Yet, then again, he was ( is ) an innovator ... and he just may have succeeded :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In message 00ae01c1570c$3550db00$c7075cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy Wood wrote: I was told that, just before the QL was due for release, someone showed Sir Clive one of the 'new' 3.5 drives and said it would fit into the same space as the microdrives. He is reported to have said 'That will never catch on' Last year I saw a QL with a 3.5 inch disk drive in place of the microdrives, not sure if it was Alex Wells at a Quanta workshop? It was mentioned in QL Tady at some point but a quick scan through failed to find. It definitely can be done with patience and dexterity. Well spotted, Dilwyn. I am pretty sure that Sinclair also developed a few prototypes for internal testing, etc, that included disk drives ... although whether they were 'working' ones, or just 'dummies' I couldn't say. I will try and check this out sometime, as I still know the industrial designer who worked on the QL project for Sinclair. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman wrote: Peter Graf wrote: Tony wrote: Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to 100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at the time were simply too large and power hungry. If only... ..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz 68060 CPU's ;-) A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again added to the selling price ? I remember my first double disk drives for QL were around 200ukp, and then there was the disk interface too :-( In 1987/88 the Amiga A500 and Atari ST took off and went on to sell in the millions. Amstrad (Alan Sugar himself) said who wants a 16 bit computer, as a child reading computer magazines and looking at the graphics of the 68K based machines I knew why. I wanted one to replace my ZX-Spectrum. I fell Amstrad missed a opportunity to repacked to the QL in the same form and do the same as Commodore and Atari. I.e. add a normal keyboard, a 3.5 disc drive, upgrade the processor to a 68000 and most important of all add better graphics. As the QL with (QDOS) already existed (with an user and software base) it would have saved development time. Amstrad position is made more understandable by the quality of the CPC and his PC strategy. While on the subject of not created computers, Oric developed a 68K computer but could not get to work (see http://freespace.virgin.net/james.groom/oric/oricfaq.htm). Then their was the Spectrum Loki. You are right, Tarquin, that was a really important time when Alan Sugar / Amstrad took over the rights to the Sinclair / QL. If he / Amstrad had properly 'revamped' the QL, he would have had a very competitive product in the personal computer market at that time. He could have sold a million or two ... Yet AS is ( was ) a hard nosed business man, he ( quite rightly as history now shows ) saw that PC's were the 'mass' market way to go. Where are 'personal computers' now ? ... on the margins. The market is dominated by mass produced PC's ( alias business / home machines ). Does anyone know how many millions of PC's have been sold, and how much money has been generated by the PC Market in hardware / software, etc ? So, AS was right to make the decision not to develop the QL ! Only his own efforts with PC's eventually came to a halt some time later too :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message 3BCD4547.6743.1997C9@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 16 Oct 2001, at 22:23, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In English 'objects' or artefacts are seen as being neutral, or inanimate. However, most English people do attach a gender to objects ... like cars = the 'old girl'. Yet, I guess the QL is a masculine object to most users ? To most non-users, it'll be an object of derision? He .. he .. a neat turn around :-) I guess we have established now that the QL is masculine in most European languages, ... and still capable of being a delight to ql-users :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read } He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-) } } Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ? In french, it is masculine. I do not know for german and english (neutral ?). Ah ... thanks, le QL then :-) In English 'objects' or artefacts are seen as being neutral, or inanimate. However, most English people do attach a gender to objects ... like cars = the 'old girl'. Yet, I guess the QL is a masculine object to most users ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Actually, it all goes to show what a truly international bunch we all are - still using an obsolete computer 17 years later, a thing which still never fails to amaze me. I wonder does Clive Sinclair still know we exist, ie. QUANTA, and QL users in general? Maybe he does ... or even contributes to this user group using a pseudonym :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Don't joke - I can see a time when C5's will be worth more than Porsches. One guy over here is looking £5,000 for one. Mind you, they are quite rare in Ireland. I wouldn't mind owning one for a laugh. ;-)# Why laugh ? I met the industrial designer who was commissioned for the task, at the time. It was innovative ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes } Alas, it's survival is limited to about 2 or 3 times the longuest subscription. } (But who cares about that, it's easy money now!, and maybe in the meantime } we can sell the magazine team to some other publisher..., just like selling } the old cow... ) } } C'est le vie ... ? Interesting gender inversion or typo. C'est le vit is not heard often, as it is just a kind of It is a male organ, so it might be taken as offensive by some bigot. Especially if you say it to someone (in which case, the spelling of vi* is not heard!!) C'est la vie is the classical quote. ObTopic: This post is ON topic, because of the subject line (flaming... :-) He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-) Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Dilwyn Jones wrote: If it gets really bad I'll start using Geordie- wor Geordies lost his penker .. All the best - Bill Err, I think we might stick with the Dutch thank you Bill! How do you say My QL needs a new keyboard membrane in Geordie? -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html Wh lad M Q£ niids a niw Kibuard mimdr!ni - like Very good, Bill :-) Away the boat ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read } Ah ! I think it was just a french problem where magazines looks more an more } catalogues with lot of advertising and propaganda (guru Bill do this, guru } Bill thinks that...) } } -Message d'origine- } De : Malcolm Cadman } (...) } OT - yet computer magazines today are largely just product reviews, and } new software version reviews ... } (...) } } Probably a 'world wide' depressing period for computer magazines then } Nope, a classical evolution. Magazines are first made by enthusiasts, for other enthusiasts and hobbyists. When success is there, money start flowing, and marketing people gets in. At that time, the enthusiastic writers are usually exausted or outnumbered by 'will write for food' writers. Hence the content drop in level of specificity (Let's widen our audience), the commercial ads have more influence on the editorial, and the latest integrity enthusiasts stop being published or even writing. The magazine is then the optimal money-making scheme: - no hard content (counter productive with advertisement) - lots of advertisements and 'product'-review - good reputations (from the old time) in the newcomers' circles - hopefully a lot of running subscription. I cannot dispute your logic. I subscribe to specialist magazines for QL and RISC OS, which avoid this problem to a large extent. The only PC magazine I subscribe to is 'PC Magazine' by Ziff-Net. THis preserves a depth of discussion, despite the pressures that you so clearly outline above. Alas, it's survival is limited to about 2 or 3 times the longuest subscription. (But who cares about that, it's easy money now!, and maybe in the meantime we can sell the magazine team to some other publisher..., just like selling the old cow... ) C'est le vie ... ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] OT - Community web site
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Mug shot is right. I actually pictured you to be a little bit younger (well, OK, a lot younger :-) ). Thanks ... I'm still a 'student' at heart and in mind ... it is just the externals that give the game away :-) Perhaps the photo is not too 'flattering', and I will update it. I hope you enjoyed the 'approved' Acting Coordinator mug shot :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] OT - Community web site
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At 10:50 ìì 11/10/2001 +0100, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 at 22:06:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi all, Apologises for OT subject. Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org This is a community based organisation that I am involved with ... you will even find my 'mug shot' in there somewhere :-) We have designed the web site ourselves, as volunteers. I assume the 'acting coordinator' produced the site (8-)# Hmmm I wonder why they put MY picture as active coordinator... obviously an unfortunate mistake :-) I see you found the 'approved' mug shot :-) ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] OT - Community web site
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 at 22:06:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi all, Apologises for OT subject. Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org This is a community based organisation that I am involved with ... you will even find my 'mug shot' in there somewhere :-) We have designed the web site ourselves, as volunteers. I assume the 'acting coordinator' produced the site (8-)# Rather he approved the 'mug shot' :-) ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others:- I agree totally:-)) François, Ik ben val plan om QPC2 op mijn PC te installeren maar gebruik natuurlijk wel een Belgisch toetsenbord. Ik meen mij te herinnereen dat jij dit probleem reeds een tijd geleden had opgelost. Zou het eventueel mogelijk zijn eens door te geven hoe ik dit kan doen? Hartelijk dank voor je hulp. Vriendelijke groeten, Joachim --- Now. now children, we've had this list polluted recently with Gaelic and Welsh. There are some other minorities in the world you know! I could even send my contributions in a Japanese character set just to upset Malcolm Cadman ;-). He .. he .. help !!! -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] OT - Community web site
Hi all, Apologises for OT subject. Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org This is a community based organisation that I am involved with ... you will even find my 'mug shot' in there somewhere :-) We have designed the web site ourselves, as volunteers. -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ah ! I think it was just a french problem where magazines looks more an more catalogues with lot of advertising and propaganda (guru Bill do this, guru Bill thinks that...) -Message d'origine- De : Malcolm Cadman (...) OT - yet computer magazines today are largely just product reviews, and new software version reviews ... (...) Probably a 'world wide' depressing period for computer magazines then ... -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message Hb5f1151beb4.1002729565.ln4p1327.ldn.swissbank.com@MHS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Norman has just sent me the texts of his articles, but the back issues are still of interest generally. Back in the late '70s/early '80s I used to buy computing mags like Practical Computing and Computing Today because they were very 'DIY' based with articles on programming and building bits of hardware, but when they changed to nothing but reviews of commercial software and hardware I lost interest and never renewed my subscriptions. QL Today still keeps that DIY spirit alive and I hope it lasts. Yes, I remember those days too ... when magazines had a decent content to them. I still have quite a few 'project type' magazines stored away for the 'rainy day' when I get to make some things. OT - yet computer magazines today are largely just product reviews, and new software version reviews ... I guess it could get interesting again in the future. -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes All the system variables, Basic variables, interrupts, vectors, traps whouldn't be there any more so we'd have to either code in C - oops, forgot, we can't, no C compiler :o) True partially. A compiler could be (relatively) easily written. For example, C68 exists already for many platforms (among them MS-DOS) and I believe Keith and Dave are ALWAYS up for a challenge :-) It just wouldn't be QDOSMSQ any more toto !! I don't agree with you... the essence of an operating system is its framework... This would be preserved... Furthermore, as we have discussed in the past in this list, a turn towards a more-Unix like approach for the OS kernel would benefit us greatly. (Higher level language for drivers etc...) Nice mental exercise though. From what I gather, Intel are going StrongARM with the next generation of processors. That is abandoning the MIPS processors in favour of the RISC processors. It just so happens that StrongARM was developed in Cambridge, England, and scorned for many years by Intel and M$ :-) ... and emerged out of Sinclairs one time great rival Acorn Computers. So, recompiling QDOS / SMSQ for a new life on new hardware platforms is not such a bad idea. If the idea is good enough, there will be someone who will do it. Perhaps they have even realised it is the end of the road in sight for Windows ... and they need a better OS for the new hardware :-) Optimistic, or what ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] e-maill: ENCODING
In message 004101c151a3$0b97c760$3ca66fd4@o5e1c0, John Hitchcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Re: It is not you, Tony, it is the setting that John has I believe ... which has been changed from - Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii . Possibly to a M$ alternative :-( Yep - that is what the TP programmers tell me. They _very_ politely advise that Malcolm ditch his ISP. Not a QL topic but a QL List Topic! == WARNING We are about to visit the realms of MS-Outlook E!!*@ - My thanks to Malcolm and Tony and my apologies to any other list member inconvenienced by this. Somehow my mailer's 'plain text' default was accidentally changed from - Western European: ISO [charset=iso-8859-1?] to Western European: Windows[charset=Windows-1252 ?] All OK now ... thanks :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes QL Toady back issues:- Clip Never bought any as I've been a subscriber from day one :-)) Are you sure that wasn't the 'day after', day one ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] k, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database/Unix administratorPhone: 0113 289 6265 Fax:0113 289 3146 Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.URL:http://www.Lynx-FS.com OT - but what if LFS ? Have you sorted out your ISP ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - ISP help required
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] k, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Sorry for the off topic post, but I've just been informed by NTL that the Cable Wireless internet service I've been using for years (CWCOM) is to be binned on 30th November 2001. Yes, that has been a good service. A friend of mine has used it since it began. I have been offered a replacement of a free ntlworld connection, but this is only for people who have an NTL cable connection - which I don't. Typical ! All my Ql stuff, HTML tutorial etc is now looking for a new home and I'm looking for suggestions : It doesn't have to be free - my wife has a business and we can go through that I need at least 5 email addresses 10-20 Mb web space Good reliability - Alison goes ape sh*t when she cannot connect (it's a woman thing !) etc etc I'm thinking of Demon which I know some of you out there use. Any problems ? It also means that my email address is going to change (my home on that is) - I hate that ! Please, to keep off topic traffic to a minimum, could you reply direct to the address below - thanks. I need a UK based one please :o) There are several is the 'top ten' of reliability ... and durability too :-) Any computer magazine that has reviewed ISP's will list their pros and cons, etc. Expect to pay up to 15ukp a month for a full service. I would recommend Demon as you do get a complete service, and your own domain name, unlimited email addresses, etc ... you even a decent magazine sent to you. But, do the research and take your choice ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] More Syquest Disks and Drives for Sale
In message 001f01c1229a$b376cd60$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I have the following for sale: 14 x 135mb Syquest disks ... 7.50 Pounds each Could bit high ... 5.00 pounds each ? 2 x 135Mb Syquest drives fittted in 5.25 cradles ... 50 Pounds each The Syquest drives work perfectly with Qubide, Q40, PC. All the disks are foramatted to Qubide format. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Re: Prowess and euro (OT)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Sorry Malcolm, missed this email. The Irish is:- duighann tu an iasc, bith me an la; teachainn tu an iascaigh, bith me an la agus la eile. (there is no lifetime in irish, it translates as for days and days to come or forever) We have the saying - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Sounds better in the Irish language though!! So, what is the Irish then ? -- Malcolm Cadman OK ... now I believe that you speak Irish too, as well QL :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] PC Bios Logo for Award Bios/QPC equipped machines
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How is the screen stored? If it is a JPEG or Bitmap it could also be of use as a replacement splash screen while windoze is loading. Been looking for a nice QL oriented one of these for ages.. It is a 640 x 480 x 8bit BMP file so with a simple rename (to logow.sys) you can replace Windoze's screen Please send it to me at my hotmail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I have an award PC here (not my main one though..) Coming right up Forward me a copy too ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Black Peripheral
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Does anybody know where to buy a black four way socket extension cable with switches? I can only find black ones without, or white ones with. Black would match my QLs and ZX-Spectrum. Thanks in advance. They do exist I'm sure. Then again there is Tony F's clever power system which allows one switch for all items ... I believe he calls it 'compswitch'. From memory this is definitely in 'black' to :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Hyper Browse Development
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At the show I was asked about the development of my web browser, I have converted the parser in C. At the moment I am changing my development environment to one in which I can develop GUI based software. I am unable to use Prowess as it is seems to be GPL, rather than (LGPL etc.), so this option was ruled out, and so the program will be Wman based. How will you handle variable fonts? The options I can see are: 1. Csize. I never liked this option, myself, as it merely 'enlarges' a bit map. With today's 'hi-res' screens probably not worth it, as people have high expectations. 2. use different colours (like lynx). Use the basic QL 4 colours for a minimum 'classic' look, yet allow for 'hi-res' colour range at users discretion. 3. do nothing and wait for Wman to change, or the Prowess licence to change. 4. use Prowess (i.e. use a second hand commercial version). ProWesS is now available for free, you only need to acknowledge the licence. 5. Write my own font software. Better not to ... 'standards' and all that. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Re: Prowess and euro (OT)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Dent Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In a region of the universe visited by my cousin Arthur (while hitchhiking), they had a saying which went something like: Stick a Babel fish in a man's printer and it'll go on translating fonts to Prowess for the rest of its life Of course it may have lost some meaning in the translation ;-) Jon. (Dent) Umm ... nice message :-) I was wondering about your cousin Arthur ... From: Darren.Branagh We have the saying - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Sounds better in the Irish language though!! So, what is the Irish then ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Q-Celt Computing News
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It's been a while since I cranked up the QL, but I'll give the new binary a try. My Q40 is currently down (blown power supply and HD problems). Luckily my Gold Card QL is still set up and working. If anyone does need a 'spare', backup, blackbox QL ... then we have several available at the London Quanta Group after many recent donations. Although some are not working, or not complete - again useful as spare parts. The ones that do work can be upgraded by simply sticking in all your other expensive add-ons :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Q-Celt Computing News
In article B1962ZZESIDNDH*/R=HO/R=A1/U=DBRANAGH/@MHS, DARREN BRANAGH 6798433 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Q-CELT COMPUTING NEWSSEPTEMBER 2001 Q-Celt Will be at the Byfleet Show on 23/09/01 (this Sunday!) with some new products! Clip Dilwyn has upgraded his Emulator CD to 1.5, to include some additional recent new programs. Upgrades are available at the Show. I purchased that from you at the show ... and there is an amazing amount of other software on there :-) Get a copy as quick as you can everyone ... ideal with QPC2v2. Clip We are also looking for new ideas for possible future CD-ROM's. If there is anything in particular you'd like to see released, please tell us - we'll endevour to provide you with what you want. I was going to suggest having a CD with with all the current freeware QL / SMSQ software on it ... yet most of it already seems to on the above :-) Many thanks, and see you all on Sunday! Oh ... was that you I bumped into :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Linus biography
In article 039d01c13efc$4510e3a0$66d2d23e@afn, Arnould Nazarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I just saw a new book about Linus Torvalds life tranlated in French, so I think that it is a few months old in the USA. It was at FNAC, a French store where everybody can impolitely read the books without the security being impolite with you (this was the subject of one of their adverts, and it is still true). There is an eleven page chapter about the QL, why Linus did buy one, what he did develop with it, what he did like and dislike about it eg. he was not happy at all with the OS in ROM so that it is impossible to patch it. That is a good point ... about the ROM based OS. The other system that I use, RISCOS, is also ROM based. They are going to move away from it in the sense that upgrades will be supplied on CD- ROM, and be able to be applied by the user. Drawback is that you need to subscribe per year to receive the CD's, so an ongoing cost for the OS - even though it is uptodate. I did not buy it, the rest seems not interesting enough. And there is his usual arrogance: I am the best in the world, the code that I develop is always perfect. Umm ... I always thought he did :-) ... but then Linux is perfect too, isn't it ? ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] First QL Mailing
In article ja$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Well the first 'real' mailing has gone out. It was again depressing to get another 100 or so rejects over and above the list I bored you with last time. I only got a handful of corrections from this list, and there were a lot of current QL users on the list. All came through fine on Demon ... thanks for the effort. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Darren
In article 363$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I am trying to contact Darren Branagh on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that his correct email - it isn't bouncing so I guess it is. I believe that Darren's hotmail address is still in use, yet I know that he now also has others. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Gold card disk formatting
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Are you using the correct format command ? FORMAT FLP1_Test is there another one? Yes :-) ... you can force it to format Double Density or High Density. I hardly ever use the command myself, yet I think it is including a *D of a *H, after the disc name that does this. It seems you need to force a HD format. -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] OFF TOPIC - The True Meaning of Acronyms
In article 006901c12ed7$c54e1680$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hmmm, the price of your QLToady subscription has just doubled ;-) Joker, Obstreperous Nerd, Editor Supreme! Per (Please Excuse Repetitions/Rudeness) (Plugging Endless Rubbish?) Umm ... I was thinking that I guess we all deserve an acronym on this list :-) I always thought of you as - Possessing Expert Rigour And for Norman - who I believe started this, how about ... Normally On-topic Revealer Machine-code And Nonsense -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Gold card disk formatting
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ... Clip All this tells me is that 1.44M disk writing is apparently putting the data in the wrong place on the disk. (Except direct sector access which seems to work fine.) Any suggestions as to what is going wrong [and to get 1.44M disks working - other than to cover the ID hole and format as 720K which does work]? Gold Cards are usually no problem with 1.44Mb disks, perhaps there is something else going on ? Are you using the correct format command ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Demon's Turnpike (generally available for around £30 I think - but free to Demon customers) already does just this on its POP3 and SMTP mail collections. You have to set the feature up though ... which I haven't done with my copy of Turnpike. How is it done, for curiosity ? I am using V6 beta 6, so yours may be different. In TP offline - configure/email routing rules/mail rejection/ .. and POP3 rejects based on header (as long as the rejection rule can get all the info from there). For thought starters (for the current project) TP has following: . was sent from user x . has subject line containing . is larger than bytes . matches the custom rule, which can get quite sophisticated (using perl-like regexps). ie ^ is beginning $ is end \ escapes the next chr - ie converts it into a 'real' character. . in regexp unescaped means 'any character' OK ... I get the idea, thanks :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 at 08:55:16, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) A project that I have in mind, sorry but it is Windows based, is a small email filter type program which allows you to connect to the mail server at your ISP, and download the HEADERS of your emails first of all - so any 100 Gigabyte :o) attachments, or files with double extensions - xxx.xls.exe or similar - can be spotted before downloading. Any unwanted emails can then be deleted from the server BEFORE you download them. Demon's Turnpike (generally available for around £30 I think - but free to Demon customers) already does just this on its POP3 and SMTP mail collections. You have to set the feature up though ... which I haven't done with my copy of Turnpike. How is it done, for curiosity ? What Norman is suggesting is a general little task that can be used with any email software and a PC; and free too :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus
In article 3B6FB7DB.15851.70128@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 6 Aug 2001, at 21:41, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Even these emails are being monitored ... So why don(t we all adopt the follwoing byline: Death, terrorists, kill the president, bomb, hoist, FBI (Let's give echelon something to think about) PS I'll be away till september. Still no escape though :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Pizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Malcolm Thanks for your suggestions re impossibility to use zip-100. I followed your suggestions and they responded correctly, yet win3, which is E, still gives No Medium. I am pleased the advice was helpful, at least in part. It looks like QPC2 works correctly but my WIN98 SE fails somehow to connect to the driver. Since the big w98 crash everything around WIN98 works pretty smoothly (till next crash?). I do not absolutely need the zip but .. but it did work before the crash. This problem is same for previous versions of QPC. Maybe I should start with a fresh empty zip-100 ( PC formatted, did not work) or format it from QL? I have not used Zip's at home with PC's - I'm a Syquest user ( old technology now ... ). Perhaps Marcel has the answer ? I can't see that the formatting would be the problem, rather being able to access the medium via a driver. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus
In article 004c01c11de4$f10a0800$62065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The best solution I reckon is for originating ISPs to filter emails with attachments for virii. Mind you we are then getting into privacy issues. Huh, what about my privacy getting these things in the first place, wasting my time, money and patience with them? Once you know the source you can block it / delete it, with your email software, or not even download it from your ISP. Yet this can go on for ever ... better as suggested that ISP's filter out the rogue emails in the first place. Which they can/could do ... yet this has implications for other things too, like the 'freedom' of the net, etc. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Delete any mail fromGreg Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have also received 3 of these. Course they don't do much to a linux box. But if you are running windows do not open the Pricelist.xls.com RockPed Customers.doc.bat or whatever that is attached. The 'clue' with these files is the 'doc.com', etc. Indicating that they are compiled Visual Basic, or similar. You may think they are OK if you assume that they are ordinary files of '.doc' or '.xls' origin, etc. In DOS / Windows format. Which is just waht the 'authors' would like you to do. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Excuse my language
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adrian Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Much obliged, and I will not pollute the list further with references to inferior manufacturers :) That said, I've got a few other ancient machines of various ilks... Cheers! Yes ... we all collect those :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Spam
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Geoff Wicks wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spam Kit Lester is on holiday, and will return (to start clearing the e-mail backlog ;-) on 3rd September. Thank you. HELP! Is this a spam ;-)? Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, its worse Would Kit Lester please tell me when he intends to take his next holidays, that way we can all go off at the same time and avoid his daily mails. I wouldn't mind but the rest of the year - he doesn't write, he doesn't phone, I make chicken soup but does he call, but holidays he tells me every day. Very witty, Bill :-) ... tears to my eyes ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions
In article 3B4F4983.4700.1D71103@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 12 Jul 2001, at 19:28, Malcolm Cadman wrote: WIN_REMV 2 - declares 'WIN2_' to be removeable or WIN_REMV 2,1 WIN_REMV 2,0 - 'WIN_2' is no longer removeable ! I haven't tried the latter information about Removeables, myself. Perhaps someone has ? Actually, I someytimes use this when accessing a drive over the (PC) network. I have a drive eg win4_ on another computer. I declare this to be a removable drive from my computer, that way, I can access the drive from my computer and from the computer where it's actually physically located. Good ... I am glad that it has got a use :-) ... your use seems eminently logical to me. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You are missing a bit. after the WIN_FORMAT 3 you should then type Format win3_ the first command allows the drive to be formatted but does nothing else. This is a protection against accidental formatting. Long winded but worthwhile. I think I get it. The impression that I got from the manual is that WIN_FORMAT 1 turned on formatting overall, and WIN_FORMAT 0 turned it off (in other words, setting a flag). What I'm getting from you is that to format win3_ I have to say win_format 3 to turn formatting on for device 3. In the manual it says WIN_FORMAT 1- Allows WIN drives to be formatted and WIN_FORMAT 0 - Prevent WIN drives from being formatted So, do we need a better manual? From the instructions for SMSQ/E for QPC ( page 18 ) :- SMSQ/E accesses the PC Hard Disks via the PCDOS calls ( the BIOS calls do not appear to work ). The FORMAT command ... creates a large file, usually called QXL.WIN, which is usually in the Root directory ... Both the filename and the Directory can be configured ... for any WIN 1 to 8. Hard Disk Driver names The default name is WIN ... C:\QXL.WIN is WIN1_ and D:\QXL.WIN is WIN2_ WIN_USE ... used to set the name of the WIN device. The name should be 3 characters long and in upper or lower case. WIN_USE MDV - the WIN device is renamed to MDV WIN_USE WIN - restore the device to WIN Formatting a 'win' drive is a 2 step process. WIN_FORMAT 1 - allow the formatting of a drive known as 'WIN1_' then FORMAT WIN1_30 - create a formatted drive as 'WIN1_' which is 30Mb WIN_FORMAT 1,0 - protect 'WIN1_' from being accidently formatted There is also support for Removeable Hardrives, like ZIP and SyQuest :- WIN_REMV 2 - declares 'WIN2_' to be removeable or WIN_REMV 2,1 WIN_REMV 2,0 - 'WIN_2' is no longer removeable ! I haven't tried the latter information about Removeables, myself. Perhaps someone has ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Syquest and Q40 question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Umm ... nice idea. I've got a Compact Flash card in a pocket computer. Nice devices ! Pity that they are not 'hot swapping', though, as you suggest. Although they are very useful as a permanent second drive :-) No hot-swapping doesn't mean should be permanent. Just power off, change media (easy like a microdrive change), reboot. Since reboot takes only seconds, this is not a very big issue. Yes, we are just lazy :-) ... a power down is not a problem with pocket computers. BTW, if some software-issues can be solved, hot-swapping seems also possible, even if it is not fully specified. That did seem a good suggestion. My backup QL has an 8MB RomDisq from Tony Firshman. Nice as a small semi-permanent hard drive - all the most commonly used programs and files on my suystems are in that, instantly available, with no trailing hard disk cables etc and no wasted space. I'm sure this would be a good idea for for a Qx0 system. Especially if it was a commonly available device like a Psion one or a smartmedia or compactflash. That's exactly what I already have for my Q40. With the added advantage of 64 MB (for about 50 UK pounds) or more, and higher read/write speed. (As always) things need time and I currently have work of much higher priority, so I must hope for patience before I can give public suggestions on which adaptors/devices to use and maybe which tricks to apply. The RomDisq is great on a QL, yet the potential of the CompactFlash is an interesting outcome now that you are using one with a Q40. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Unzip Librarian
In article 000401c10a31$2f2ae4a0$d2065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Another new QL program release from me, I'm afraid. This time, it's a front end program for unzipping zipped files. There are two versions, one pointer driven and the other not pointer driven. Both need Toolkit 2, and a copy of QL Unzip of course (may be obtained from www.daria.co.uk Jonathan Hudson's website) Unzip Librarian lets you browse drives and directories looking for zip files to unzip. Just click on the zip file and it will unzip it for you. You have to configure it (or enter the settings) to tell it where to unzip to, and where it can find your copy of Unzip. Unzip Librarian is only a front end for unzip (i.e. it does not zip up files) and has no file selection from within the zipped files, so this is clearly not a competitor Archivers Control Panel, merely a quick and simple way to unzip files. The programs are freeware and may, for example, be freely used to distribute QL software in zipped format, for example, via websites, BBSes and PD library disks. Thanks Dilwyn, I will have a download some time later this week :-) At present I use 'unzip_bas' which is a short SuperBasic program that came with the c68 distribution. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Syquest and Q40 question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I want to bounce an idea off the collective. I just picked up a Syquest EZ-Flyer 230 (EIDE) with about a dozen disks. I've already got two IDE devices on my Q40 (HD and CDROM). I'm thinking about putting in the Syquest in the Q40 and only hooking it up when I needed it (mostly for backup). An excellent device ... in my opinion. I have a SCSI one ( 230Mb ) hooked up to my RISC OS system. Don't restrict yourself just to 'backup'. I use mine just like a standard hard drive ... i.e. run any software you like from it. I even 'turn off' my main hard drive, which is also an external SCSI, and use the SyQuest as the main hard drive :-) ... it has the advantage of being both quick and quiet. Essentially I would turn the Q40 off, crack the case, switch the power and IDE cable from the CDROM to the Syquest, turn on the Q40 and go about using the Syquest. I'd reverse the procedure to get the CDROM back. There should still be a spare cable for a second hard drive, even if you have a CD-ROM in place ( ? ); or there is a doubler cable available ... thinking 'PC' ... I don't know how the Q40 is in this hardware sense. Does this sound like a good idea? Has anybody tried the Syquest on the Q40? Probably ? BTW, I got the Syquest free, so if I can't use it on the Q40, no problem. A friend of mine is moving from an apartment in San Francisco to an RV (where he'll travel and find jobs in different towns). He was giving most of the stuff in his apartment to friends. Besides the Syquest I got a boat-load of 80's records. I know if I kept him as a friend for the past 20 years it would pay off :-). Well, if the SyQuest is free, you have a wonderful device to use on any machine that you care to put it on ! I am looking out for another one myself :-) ... IDE ... parallel port ... or SCSI. PS - 135Mb disks also work fine in the 230Mb drive that you have now got. So, build up a library ! -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HD problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Lundi 09 Juillet 2001 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the HD. First I have deleted Files in the directory DIR1 (win4_DIR1_File1?.File99). What worries me is the ? into the filename... QDOS/SMS do not understand UNIX wildcards natively (although a a shell or programs ported from the UNIX world usually do understand wildcards in their command line)... IOT delete all files from DIR1_ directory from SBASIC, use: WDEL_F win4_DIR1_ Second I deleted the directory DIR1 Problem: The DIR1 always existent. The command Delete win4_DIR1_ shows the Error Massage Not found The command Make_Dir win4_DIR1_ shows the Error Massage always existent Try first the WDEL_F command, then do a DIR win4_DIR1_ (it should print no file at all, if it does, then something is wrong: probably a hard disk map corruption). Then you can try DELETE win4_DIR1 Good advice clipped ... Yes, make sure your 'sub_directory' is empty of files first. It should, then, delete ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] As things are quiet...
In article 000d01c107cc$4b4e73c0$fc8101d5@napc01, Nicholas Ashby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Would e-mail 'off list' but how do I get your e-mail address ? Hi, It seems you found it anyway :-) as I received an email, usually your emailer has an option to 'show headers'. If anyone else is not sure my address is :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have begun to acculmulate quite a good collection of older QL hardware and software, and related bits and pieces. Thanks to donations by QL people to my appeal on behalf on the London QL Users and Quanta Group. Feel free to email me, off list, for a copy of some of the items available. All we ask is for a reasonable donation to the Group, so the cost per item is not very great. -- Malcolm Cadman -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Syquest and Q40 question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I want to bounce an idea off the collective. I just picked up a Syquest EZ-Flyer 230 (EIDE) with about a dozen disks. Sounds OK. At least the 135 MB one has been reported to work with Q40. I've already got two IDE devices on my Q40 (HD and CDROM). I'm thinking about putting in the Syquest in the Q40 and only hooking it up when I needed it (mostly for backup). How about a second IO card for two more IDE drives? Ah ... thanks for the confirmation to Tim. I thought it should be OK. BTW I am successfully using CompactFlash as removable media for Q40/Q60. Seems a very nice thing! Smaller than a QL microdrive cartridge, silent, portable, and works under Q40 SMSQ/E and QDOS Classic *without* new drivers! I use a special PCMCIA/CompactFlash-IDE adaptor. But attention, not all CompactFlash-IDE adaptors work. There are also differences between CompactFlash cards. This needs further investigation. CompactFlash has the disadvantage not to be well-suited for hot-plugging. You have to switch off your machine when you change media. Fortunately the Q40/Q60 boots quite fast... and needs no shutdown under SMSQ/QDOS. Umm ... nice idea. I've got a Compact Flash card in a pocket computer. Nice devices ! Pity that they are not 'hot swapping', though, as you suggest. Although they are very useful as a permanent second drive :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] re: As things are quiet..
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes go to Dilwyns web site and download Stripper for Windows. Run it, and load in any _DOC files that you download. You can then print them out, or save them in text file format as required (see the help file for details). Stripper is highly recommended if you need to handle any _doc files, it is a Windows program ( or should I say 'Wonder' program, as Norman wrote it :-) ... you will find the program icon amusing too ... ). If you download onto a PC any zip files, you can open them under dos/windows but executable files will not have a correct header and won't work, so what you have to do is the following : Download onto your PC Copy to a floppy Startup the QL and use something like XOVER or Dave Walker's DiscOver to copy from DOS format disc to QL. Now that you have it on QL format disc, run unzip_exe (from the C68 program discs) to extract all the stuff in the zip file and correctly preserve the exe file headers. If you have SMSQ you can just copy the zip file over from a PC formatted disk to ram drive, and unzip on the QL using Infozip. You need to get rid of the DOS 'dot' into a QL 'underscore', e.g :- copy flp1_file.zip to ram1_file_zip I am forever going around in a triangle between QL PC RISC OS, and there isn't really that much difference in the file formats. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Q Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS. Time to set out own standards :) This was not what I suggested. The ability to read PC format CDs from the Q 40 would open up a vast amount of Clip Art etc. to the QL user at a stroke. I know I can read QXL.WIN files with qxltool but the ability to access it as a straight directory would open it up to those who want to do just that without having to download extra tools and work their way through the usual freeware jungle of no front ends or user interfaces. Yes we could set our own standards and remain isolated or we could do what other commercial systems are not capable of and read as many formats as we can. I would agree that it is best to embrace the wider 'standard'. This choice was also faced some time back by my RISC OS system, another minority OS, which generated a long debate ... now you just read any PC format CD. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I don't run M$ mail programs - that is the reason I don't spread them! At work, I have no option - Outlook 2000 but seriously protected on the email server and on individual PCs with Macafee - which is probably the best AV on the go at the moment. At home, I use Opera and my wife uses Netscape. OT - Yet Opera is good, well worth having as a Browser. I would love to run a QL mail program - not least because it would simplify mailing lists. That would be nice :o) It will have to have sensible 'defaults', and easy configuration ... to be a good example of a mail client :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Re: Election 2001
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The 2001 version of my General Election program is now available for downloading. It contains two new features. There is now a separate listing of marginal seats and a new by-election command. The latter allows you to enter the result of a by-election and view the effect if the swing were repeated over the country. Sounding good, Geoff :-) It looks like you should be contacting a TV or Radio station, etc, and sell them a QL based hardware system, or QPC2v11; so that they can run your software ! They always used to say that applications sell hardware :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I hate to continue this off topic issue and I dislike Microsoft as much as the next person, but the real Outlook issue is that the default options for Outlook are very unsecure. Most users are not aware of the security features and trust the default options, making themselves vulnerable to a trojan horse attack. The main rule is to not execute any attachment. By default Outlook can execute code without any acceptance by the user. A very bad default option. A nice brain dead mail reader like Pine is the best thing to use, as it makes no assumptions about what the user wants and treats all attachments the same (and does not execute them). Simpler mail readers are much better than the more advanced readers. Yes, it is the 'swings and roundabouts' of trying to make software, which is now very sophisticated, easy enough to operate by users. Adopting sensible 'defaults' is an issue that software developed in this area for the QL will have to address too. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] NEXT in FOR-loop
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Too late, deadline is... Dilwyn - that might be an 'interesting' article actually, well, maybe not COBOL, but how about something on the internals of Turbo (or QLib). I rememeber an article by Simon Goodwin (before he became Simon N Goodwin !) in QL World which sort of delved into Turbo - but was restricted by Digital Precision on what he could have published. Now that we have people actively working on the source, and indeed, the source itself, would anyone be willing to 'document' the compiler internals in an article or three ? Mind you, I'd probably be the only one interested :o( Well, George Gwilt and Dave Gilham are actively working on Turbo sources, so maybe there is a chance ... and you wouldn't be the only one interested :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ mailers. SNIP Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few files at random then later on, format your hard drive(s). Norman. PS. If you only use a QL then no effect will be noticed :o) I'm getting fed up with such thoughtless attacks on everything MS... so thank you Norman for saying for me what I just couldn't be bothered to say. thoughtless attacks you say? I was holding myself back not to reply to Norman's post which is slightly incorrect. Of course the virus will not run on Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS, Acorn, AmigaOS, Solaris, Altos, Symoblics Machine, Plan 9, ZX 81 or any other remotely sane operating system. Suffice to say, that last month about 80% messages were in search of a solution for an MS Outlook problem and now the next purely MS problem. IMHO this can be either because MS does have only braindamaged users or because the software is braindamaged. He .. he .. these virus alerts are boring when you have other alternatives to M$ ware ... OT ... I know :-( ... but I recently heard an educationalist say the pupils were being taught MS Word ... not 'wordprocessing' ( generic ) ! -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 High colour
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Pizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Some while back I asked for help in getting QPC2 v2.00 using High colour. Thanks for those who offered ideas. I found, quite by accident, that if I disabled Norton Crash Guard the problem was solved. Wolfgang Lenerz's little program col_obj now works a treat, too. Ah ... I am pleased it was a conflict of software on your machine, you had many of us puzzled as to the nature of the problem. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I only had the jokes and the exe file. There was no report on mine. Mind you, this virus (is a worm) and burrows into your system then hijacks Outlook to send itself areound to everyone in your address book - so it could have come from anywhere I suppose. As long as it is only Outlook it attacks I don't think too many of us will be worried :-) ... it is just the HTML it sends out that bothers us :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In article 001201c0f1ea$f3744ae0$ef065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Good idea! It could be a mixture of netiqette and hints on how to use certain email programs when mailing to this list. Also that we have a generalised list on ql-users, and not sections of interests and needs. It might be a useful exercice if someone was to compile a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list stored on someone's website (say, the QL Users Email Mailing List page on my website) with an occasional pointer to it from this list when it's updated. Any volunteers to grab info from this list and compield it into a FAQ list? That way the summary of information would be available to all without the need for repeated threads etc on this list. Good idea, to have an FAQ ... I hope that someone can take this on. I receive a monthly update of my interest in RISCOS that way ... it does save a lot of repetition on user groups, as well as suppying good information. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Q60 and Linux
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Malcolm, So the operating system on a Q60 is SMSQ ( in ROM ? ), which is loading a complied version of Linux optimised for SMSQ ? What is the actual sequence of a Q60 startup ? QDOS/SMSQ boots from ROM. That takes just a few seconds. If you just want to use QDOS/SMSQ, here you are. If you want to start Linux, you simply execute the Linux loader, which is an QDOS/SMSQ application. You can do that from the commandline or your bootfile or any other basic program. That will start the Linux kernel, which will leave QDOS/SMSQ and take control over the Q60. To get back to QDOS/SMSQ you shutdown Linux and reboot QDOS/SMSQ. Q40/Q60 Linux is no QDOS/SMSQ application except for the loader. It is directly based on the Q40/Q60 hardware just like PC Linux is based on the Intel PC hardware. This is much more than just an optimization, it is a complete operating system port. An enormous work - Richard deserves the highest respect for this achievement. BTW if you want to run a QDOS application while using Linux on a Q60, you can use a special version of UQLX. Unlike emulators on a PC it can run QDOS programs native on the 68060, which is of course a lot faster. Thanks for an excellent summary :-) ... that explains a lot, and much as I expected. I have not yet caught sight of a Q60 in real life, and only had brief dealings with a Q40 at various QL Shows. Keep up the good work, and make sure we all are informed of what can be done with a Q60. Richard has done 'sterling work' ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Pizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Malcoln Thanks for your reply, but when using disp_colour 3 (start with QL colours for QPC2) anything tried closes QPC2. There is a program in Thierry Godefroy's web site called col.zip. Run in QL colours it does not work properly but could be interesting if QPC2v2 worked with High colours. Anyone with other ideas, or does High colours just not work with SMSQ 2.98 ? Umm ... odd, it is all working for me. Possibly a graphic card conflict somewhere ... ? ... just guessing. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Pizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I tried to run QPC2v2f with High colour setting (640x480) but it will not load. The screen goes blank for a few seconds then back to normal Desk Top. The PC screen is set for 24 bits. I have tried different PC settings (800,600 and 16 bit colour depth). Is there perhaps a driver missing or an incompatability? The command - DISP_COLOUR 3 will put you into true colour mode. If you are using the Pointer Interface you will find its gets 'messed' up, as it was not designed to cope with colour depth changes. When you hit or do an item the display is restored. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] A little boast.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think I am entitled to a little boast: UK General Election:LABCON LDENAT % 4533 19 3 Actual Result 414166 52 9 QL Prediction413167 50 11 PC Prediction421164 46 10 For the psephologists in the group I'll post the new version on the web as soon as I have typed in the complete result. The program now has even more feartures than the last version. Good stuff, Geoff ! Looking forward to new data being available. I notice, overall, that although Labour have kept a majority a lot of their individual seats have a reduced majority in line with the low turnout. Do you have the turnout data ? -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] List - Forums
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bojan Kotur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes This mailing list is all great and everything but wouldn't it be better (and making less net traffic) if the list master just set up a bulletin board like UBB or similar? That way we could avoid having to recieve tons of mail every day and still have the same amount of people (or even more) with us. Think about it... surely there are QLers out there who are not on the list because of all the e-mails but still want to keep in touch with the rest of the QL community. The nice bit is that this list is very interactive, and quick. Problems are raised, and solved usually virtually instantly. The average traffic in up to ten mails a day, sometimes up to twenty. Which is not at all very high. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Once soql is complete, I daresay we can banish OE and other 2 letter words from this list. My understanding is that soql, although not fully complete, is in a working form. More a matter of other software authors building up on it with the style of software that we are familar with on other platforms ... like 'emailers' :-) IMHO the main problem is that there's stil no PPP support. I cannot find SLIP providers. Email and ftp program are already there - thanks to Jonathan Hudson. Yes, PPP is the most popular provision by ISP's now, although using SLIP is no problem at all when you have it available. I am really looking forward to this. Just imagine: booting 10 seconds, dialing in and getting your emails. Easier than walking to your mail-box. I am tired of booting Linux. What ? ... the 'sacred' Linux has problems too :-) There are no problems, but the boot time of Linux compared to SMS is a little longer. But not as long as waiting for Windoze I suppose :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Email and HTML
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mel LaVerne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At 17:11 02/06/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi all, Testing Outlook Express v5.5 - this should be in plain text, as I have configured the settings. Should be but with excess baggage. Configure some more, please. Attachment Converted: C:\BUFFET\EUDORA\ATTACH\ql-users Attachments, bah ! %@$*!!# ! With the tolerance of the list subscribers, OE has been 'tamed' since :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Email and HTML
In article 000801c0ee57$9ecd6440$97065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Unwrapping it to plain text as normally required for user groups, involves 4 steps :- 1 - Tools / Options / Send - untick - Reply to message using same format as they were sent. 2 - Mail sending format - Plain text. 3 - International settings - Western Europe ( ISO ). 4 - Tools / Address book - against the address, e.g, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tick the box that says Send email using plain text only. This is under 'Name' in 'Properties'. Thank you for this Malcolm, step 4 is the one which does not often get mentioned. I checked my address book and found this was ticked so I've obviously spotted this before, but not remembered about it. My previous mistake was to type in a direct address in the 'To:' box, rather than use the address book, hence you don't get this option. I doubt I could remember the ql users address to do this! M$ have certainly made it in OE quite a task to unravel its HTML settings, apart from that it seems a reasonable program ... Do it the M$ way or not at all seems to be the way of things. I am glad that you have found it useful. Although for some it has been a bit 'off topic'. Now we can all co-operate and enjoy our QDOS/SME systems :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] Email and HTML
This should complete my experiments with OE. It is set up to use HTML as the default, which we have to accept is the way it is. Even if you select 'plain text' it will post an attachement in HMTL ( as the Help file confirms as being a good idea ! ). Unwrapping it to plain text as normally required for user groups, involves 4 steps :- 1 - Tools / Options / Send - untick - Reply to message using same format as they were sent. 2 - Mail sending format - Plain text. 3 - International settings - Western Europe ( ISO ). 4 - Tools / Address book - against the address, e.g, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tick the box that says Send email using plain text only. This is under 'Name' in 'Properties'. I hope that this helps those who either choose, or have to use, OE. My previous mistake was to type in a direct address in the 'To:' box, rather than use the address book, hence you don't get this option. M$ have certainly made it in OE quite a task to unravel its HTML settings, apart from that it seems a reasonable program ... For me I am back to using Turnpike :-)
Re: [ql-users] Keep 100% of the revenue your generate!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Dear Friend, AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV : ''Making over half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from your home for an investment of only $25 US Dollars expense one time'' THANKS TO THE COMPUTER AGE AND THE INTERNET! = BE A MILLIONAIRE LIKE OTHERS WITHIN A YEAR!!! Umm ... shame this one got through :-( -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] Email and HTML
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Yes:-( it still sent two copies ... I see it is next to impossible to get Outlook do what you need. I've fixed it now ... you have to also use Tools/Address book and tick the box that says 'Send E-Mail using plain text only' for each recipent address that you use. Now I can forgive any OE user for not clearing HTML, M$ have made it quite hard to do :-( ... ... and I am glad that I am sticking with Turnpike :-) Snip of good advice on SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I wrote about OE It's only a matter of time before OE starts appearing with no text options And Malcolm replied Unlikely, as text is one of the features needed. It needs to be able to read text but it doesn't have to send it unless Microsoft want to This is getting too far away from QL matters so I think we should stop here before we get complaints! Its about ql_users communicating via email, so not too far off topic. The much maligned OE seems OK, as I have just experimented with it. The configuration options are easy enough to apply. Its feature is that is a browser style mailer, rather than a mailer. So I guess even M$ are right to make HTML the default setting. Which means its users just have to think things through when they go on user groups. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In article 001501c0e9a3$7d0e15b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Martin Wheatley writes: Marcus wrote It's just that you answered an HTML mail and therefore it generated HTML, too, I suppose. And Malcolm replied Also, to send HTML you must have MIME enabled ... otherwise it is rejected. Dis-enable MIME when sending plain text. If you are using Outlook Excess, it is buried somewhere in the menus :-( Marcus is right Malcolm. It's not that simple Whatever defaults you set up in OE (and to be fair most Windows mail progs) apply only to NEW e-mails If you hit the Reply button then it creates a copy of the original message complete with all the original message's formatting and it is that you are typing into. Hence the occasional HTML messages from people who are normally not set up for HTML In LookOut its normally easy enough to see the format of the message youre replying to. However, to make your settings foolproof, ie safe from oneself, at least in later versions of OE : Under Tools/Options/Send, untick Reply to messages using same format as they were sent. Yes, thanks, Per, ... that is the menu option that I was thinking about when I replied to Martin. ( Not being a regular user, I could not recall these exact details ... ). Lookout is easy enough, I found, to both find the options available and set up. Then you 'never' can reply in the same format automatically ... which avoids the problems which we have been highlighting. On the same page under Mail sending format select the Plain Text radio button, and while youre there check the settings under the International Settings button and select Western European (ISO). Finally, in the address book (Tools/Address Book), under the ql-user entry, Name tab, tick the Send E-Mail using plain text only button, repeat the latter step for all your nerdy acquaintances, and Bobs yer aunts live-in lover! All excellent advice ... and readily available in the software. It just seems that many M$ users don't explore the features of the software that they are using. PS I can still think of a couple more excuses for bungling up after this, but I think I better save them for my own use ;) I believe that Martin uses Eudora, and not Lookout. So he is probably not 'guilty' of this :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] sb2htm
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article 000401c0e939$8bbc3930$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman writes: If you find your tastes run to this sort of thing ;) theres also an asm2html (not asm2htm) on the web that does i86 source code to html. Its written in perl. I havent tried it yet, so dont know how it does. I'm not an assembly writer ... although I will try Perl, some day, when I get the time :-( try assembler - it is easier, readable, maintainable and faster. It doesn't look it :-( I don't believe I am ever going to get the time to learn Assembler now. High level languages are much easier to start to use. Although Perl, like C, is high / middle / low - or call it what you will :-) as its adopted symbol is a camel ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QPC2
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Is there any way to work with a three buttons mouse on a PC (I found using the third button as Escape very convenient on native QDOS/SMS machines) ? Yes, I believe that there is. Yet I cannot give you an example. Although, to be truthful it took a long time for a PC to even recognise a second button, never mind a third :-) I am mailing this with WIN 3.11, and it is all one button mouse operations, yet PC 'mice' have two buttons ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Marcus wrote It's just that you answered an HTML mail and therefore it generated HTML, too, I suppose. And Malcolm replied Also, to send HTML you must have MIME enabled ... otherwise it is rejected. Dis-enable MIME when sending plain text. If you are using Outlook Excess, it is buried somewhere in the menus :-( Marcus is right Malcolm. It's not that simple Whatever defaults you set up in OE (and to be fair most Windows mail progs) apply only to NEW e-mails If you hit the Reply button then it creates a copy of the original message complete with all the original message's formatting and it is that you are typing into. Hence the occasional HTML messages from people who are normally not set up for HTML I've only 'doodled' around with Outlook Excess, just to see what all the 'pain' is about. Although I have found its menus quite easy to access and configure. Thankfully, Turnpike just takes care of all this in a sensible way. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] re: Hotmail Problems
In article C1356ZZAGH9042*/R=HO/R=A1/U=DBRANAGH/@MHS, DARREN BRANAGH 6798433 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi All, Thanks for the tip Geoff - I'll try it and see if it works, sounds like a good bodge though :-)) I'll use the work email software in the meantime... Cheers, Darren. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail from your system. Thank you. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. Then he goes for the worlds largest 'footnote' :-) ... he .. he ... I must notify 'MailManager' immediately ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] request for NA QL Show.
In article 338DDC2D.28141.259163@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 29 May 2001, at 14:55, DARREN BRANAGH 6798433 wrote: Having never been to a NA Show before, I am unsure of quantities of items to bring along - and with severe weight restrictions on my flight, my usual enormous flight suitcase is definitely out this time :-) Umm, time to go on a diet, then Wolfgang ... Yes, the suitcase it just for his sandwiches :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] sb2htm
In article 006c01c0e827$1c0ebb70$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Thought Id risk another cosmic yawn from the QL-ing community and hereby intrepidly announce my latest baby, sb2htm!! Yes, yes; anOTHER *2htm! I really got to work this one through my system. Im having the whole house htmlised next. Wall2wall. After that, no one can be sure. The pets have all fled; the wife is terrified! (Shes waiting for the dreaded call: Honey, I just html-ised the kids!) However, none of that need worry you one little bit. All _you_ have to do is to try it out and enjoy! clip Umm ... sounds useful, I will incorporate it into my armoury ! I am already forever converting text files to html, with a rather neat piece of software of my RISC OS system. I sure this will prove useful too :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Geoff Wicks wrote: Seriously, Marcel, do you usually get HTML-messages from me or was it just this one? IIRC just this one. Our problem is that however we set our emails they still seem to get sent HTML. The dodge I use seemed to be the only way to fool the system. It's just that you answered an HTML mail and therefore it generated HTML, too, I suppose. Marcel Also, to send HTML you must have MIME enabled ... otherwise it is rejected. Dis-enable MIME when sending plain text. I get many messages where MIME has been left enabled for a plain text message. I always then reply with it turned off ... which is easy with Turnpike, as it has a button just for that purpose :-) If you are using Outlook Excess, it is buried somewhere in the menus :-( and is therefore less convenient to access, and people just don't bother or even realise they have the option ... they just expect the recipent to take care of what they send out. -- Malcolm Cadman
[ql-users] QPC1 versus QPC2
QPC1 versus QPC2 ? Well not really. I have just become aware, again, of how useful and 'speedy' QPC1 is. Having got back an old PC 486/33 with Win 3.11 installed. I decided to put it to good use by making it a QPC1 platform :-) which I can now use long term at the London QL User and Quanta group meetings. Installing QPC1 was no problem, just copy the files to a QPC directory and then format a 'win1'. Even the changes to the autoexec.bat and config.sys files didn't phase me, as I had done it once before; and now it is well documented with QPC. I then decided to install some QL software. Taking it across by floppy disc from a Pentium 1 PC with WIN 95 and QPC II v2, to the 486 PC with Win 3.11. Yet I had forgotten how slow the slave blocks are with WIN 95, it makes the Win 3.11 machine seem positively speedy ! Still, mission achieved a few hours later ... Does anyone have any of the following equipment that they could donate to the London Group ? VGA monitor, with standard D plug, and power cable ( kettle plug style ) PS2 style mouse PS2 keyboard This would complete a useable system. -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] QL Emulators CD
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - Original Message - From: Darren Branagh Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Emulators CD Hi All, Seems I no longer have an option to send in plain text when using hotmail - mime/HTML only these days - and a new crap user interface. Time to change I think. Darren, The trick I use when sending to the group is to do it always as a reply, even if it is a new message. It just means taking one of the existing messages and then deleting everything before replying. Since doing that I have had no complaints. We will excuse him for now ... :-) as he is being forced to use 'badware' :-( Let's hope that your hint is a way around the difficulty ... -- Malcolm Cadman
Re: [ql-users] SBASIC error message
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman wrote: Whatever it is, I don't think it's QPC. SBASIC is very platform independent. The only thing which is possible is that the SMSQ floating point functions have a bug whereas the QPC ones haven't. Knowing you, that is quite likely :-) Depends on whether the underlying FPU of the host processor has bugs or not ;-) I guess it is just inevitable that most have their 'bugs', it is just knowing where they are, and a way around if possible :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
