Re: [Ql-Users] TFS

2008-03-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:48 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] TFS I haven't seen Quanta but I gather it says I have left the QL scene. I haven't! Read QL Today for the true position. The QL Today article

[Ql-Users] New web page

2008-02-16 Thread gwicks
I have now added the promised maps page to the Just Words! website. At the moment it is not really usable. You will have to wait until issue 3 of QL Today - due in the middle of March - to load the data in Hugh Room's mapping program. I have also taken the opportunity to make one or two

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-02-04 Thread gwicks
And dare I say it for fear of being expelled from the QL community, the email was perfect in Outlook Express! Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

2008-02-03 Thread gwicks
Just a reminder that the QL Today deadline is a week away, 10th February. We have some good, varied and interesting material in, but probably not quite enough to fill an issue. As we have two lengthy articles short contributions would be welcome. At the moment the news section look like being

Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

2008-02-03 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches gwicks wrote: At the moment the news section look like being a little sombre, What is sombre? so some more news

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC

2008-01-04 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Windows, Linux and QPC David McCann wrote: Could your software run under QemuLator? That works fine with Linux and I think it accepts SMSQ

[Ql-Users] QL Today apology

2007-12-19 Thread gwicks
The QL Today team would like to apologise to our UK subscribers that we have been unable to keep our promise to deliver issue 2 shortly before Christmas. Although the magazine was ready at the end of November it was not possible to print the UK copies immediately. These are now at the printers

[Ql-Users] Short deadline

2007-10-28 Thread gwicks
This is just a reminder that the QL Today deadline is in a week's time, 5th November. We have already started work on the issue as we want to have it out well before Christmas. Please note that the deadline is 5th November and not 15th November as I incorrectly told one or two people some

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Bill Loguidice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Punters Is there more information somewhere about the QL-on-a-stick? We also hope to have a review in QL Today and I see from another

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Arnould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Punters I don't know, I have a VERY hard time taking this subject seriously at all. Wolfgang Same for me: there definitely must be some

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-08 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Punters Hi Geoff, Just a word of caution. Please be careful in your assumptions about the person who raised the matter with me. It is someone I have

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-08 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Punters I have been severely rebuked by a gentleman who wishes to be known as an attendee at the Birmingham Workshop. He assures me that his

[Ql-Users] QL on a stick

2007-10-07 Thread gwicks
Dilwyn has kindly provided QL Today with a review copy of a QL on a stick. This is just the CD which you have to copy to your own USB memory stick. Would anyone be interested in doing a review for QL Today? Ideally we would like to publish in issue 2, which has a deadline of 15th November,

Re: [Ql-Users] Punters

2007-10-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Punters It isn't very often that Quanta agrees with Geoff Wicks: Is this a subtle Quanta plot to destroy my reputation? Actually I am not

Re: [Ql-Users] Tea for two?

2007-10-04 Thread gwicks
of low price Black Pentium 4 PCs and small hard drives suitable for the QL. Derek Tony Firshman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Kilpatrick wrote: On 4 Oct 2007, at 13:28, gwicks wrote: Just a reminder that the Birmingham workshop is this weekend. We have

[Ql-Users] Birmingham Workshop update 2

2007-09-24 Thread gwicks
Dear All, I now have details of Simon Goodwin's presentation. In his own words: Simon's talk will be a demonstration of creating a fast modern Qdos set-up, using entirely free software, and how it works, which others could follow using free or very low-cost 'surplus' hardware; several operating

[Ql-Users] Quanta Birmingham workshop update

2007-09-21 Thread gwicks
The Quanta Birmingham workshop is now taking its final shape and is looking very promising. We shall have a good attendance of traders Tony Firshman, Roy Wood and Rich Mellor. This will be the first time that Rich has been able to attend a show for some years. The two semi-traders Dilwyn

Re: [Ql-Users] Change of venue for Birmingham Workshop

2007-08-31 Thread gwicks
Quanta members will probably have received their notification of the change of venue by now. There is just a little extra information for public transport users. Unfortunately Solihull station will be closed for engineering maintenance work on 6th October. There is a replacement bus service

[Ql-Users] Just a week to go!

2007-08-08 Thread gwicks
Just a reminder that the QL Today copy date is 15th August, a week today. We already have some good and varied copy for what looks like a promising issue, but as always more is welcome. We also already have a good news section, but again more is always welcome, Best Wishes, Geoff

[Ql-Users] West Midlands workshop

2007-07-29 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Church [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Repeat message Geoff, Thank you for the invite, yes I would be interested in coming. If you would let me know the venue. Tony

Re: [Ql-Users] West Midlands workshop

2007-07-29 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] West Midlands workshop The Shows page on my website has a modest map showing how to get to Steelhouse lane - look spretty straightforward from

Re: [Ql-Users] West Midlands Workshop

2007-07-28 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Repeat message The reason for holding our Summer Workshop in October is that due to the fixed date of the AGM, we were unable to hold

Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Repeat message

2007-07-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] [ql-users] Repeat message Hi Tony, You, along with any others who have an interest in the QL would be very welcome at the Quanta Summer

Re: [ql-users] Testing (new email system) please ignore.

2007-07-04 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Testing (new email system) please ignore. BT are very cavalier, they buggered me around when Orange stopped my BBand through incompetance. Led

[ql-users] QL compatible printer

2007-05-31 Thread gwicks
I am currently doing a little upgrading and have a few goodies on offer free of charge. I am making them available to the QL community in the first instance: CANON BJ-200ex bubble jet printer. I normally would not offer this as it is very elderly and the cartridges are getting pricey, but the

Re: [ql-users] Any old iron.

2007-05-24 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Any old iron. In a similar vein, if USB ever becomes a reality for us, USB pen drives are getting dirt cheap at the moment. cclonline.com

Re: [ql-users] New QUANTA web site launched

2007-05-12 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] New QUANTA web site launched Looks very good. I though would *never* use mailto: on any site I run - invites spam. CGI link to form is infinitely better.

[ql-users] QL wiki review

2007-05-12 Thread gwicks
We are still short of general copy for the next issue of QL Today. Would some kind person like to do a review during the next seven days of Rich's wiki site? Or even of Quanta's new website. Both items are in our news section, but it would be nice to have a more detailed account of both, Best

Re: [ql-users] Deadline looming

2007-05-08 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Deadline looming Not sure if I'll have much for you - still in the process of moving house and most of my 'life' is currently residing in cardboard boxes

[ql-users] Deadline looming

2007-05-07 Thread gwicks
Just a reminder that the QL Today deadline is just a week away. We have quite a bit of copy over from the last issue, but not enough for a full magazine. More welcome. We would like to have issue 5 ready for the Eindhoven show, Best wishes, Geoff

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007

2007-04-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: [ql-users] Hove Workshop and Quanta AGM - 15th April 2007 Hi, Enjoyable event ... :-) What made it especially enjoyable was the degree of

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hove Show ...demonstrating programs written by other people, but well worth seeing some of the progress made in QL garphics (that's a typo,

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hove Show Just tried to check the details for this show but most of the websites (Quanta, JMS, QLT) only refer to last year's one or mention this

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hove Show Geoff Wicks' talk - he has not really told me what that will be (if he has changed it from before) Since no one has suggested anything else, it will be

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-26 Thread gwicks
Thanks John. Always a good idea to publicise things like this beforehand, even if it took you 10 days to reply to my message. No doubt all the committee were away attending a mole hunting course ;-). Also good to see that it will be an interactive session. - Original Message - From:

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Derek Stewart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hove Show Why all this mole business at the heart of Quanta, have you got a vendetta against them Derek Don't forget that it was a member of the

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-15 Thread gwicks
I have had another idea about the activities at the Hove show. For some time now we have been promised an all new, whistles, bells and ribbons, updated Quanta website. This is near to fruition as Quanta has found a webmaster, although he will only officially take up his duties at the AGM.

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show

2007-03-13 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hove Show Obviously price will be a consideration to all those intending to stop overnight for this year's AGM. Quanta have found that the

Re: [ql-users] Request for speakers

2007-03-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:19 PM Subject: [ql-users] Request for speakers A slight change of subject. I have a big problem, which is a big mouth. When Roy asked me to give a talk at the Hove show I said yes. Even worse,

Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings

2007-02-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: hitchies To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings Hi everyone! Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? John in Wales I had this

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:03:19 -, Jan Palenicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but if Quanta made all this free, what reason would

Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings

2007-02-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings Since this thread is about this list can someone tell me the current method for subscribing? I have a new user who wants to sign

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-24 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee gwicks wrote : Sorry, John, but you are missing the point. In this case Quanta should not have needed

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee {The point as I see it is that NO ONE who wanted some QUANTA money bothered to pick up the phone!! You are

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee What my Audited Accounts do tell me is that QUANTA still has an Accumulated Fund of over £12,000 (all will

Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee

2007-02-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee Over the past few months officers of the QUANTA Committee have monitored the ql-users list (as they do) and,

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Kett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think we have to face the fact that the QL is a dying breed - we're not

Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff

2007-02-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: George Gwilt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL hardware and stuff On 19 Feb 2007, at 19:08, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Can someone write an article for one of the magazines - Quanta or QL Today -

Re: [ql-users] USBwiz USB to serial device

2007-02-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] USBwiz USB to serial device If you Tony would help with the connectors the list would like to club together or dare I say Quanta to sponsor someone the $100 US

Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons

2007-02-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons But just a provocative thought. Have you ever tried to connect a USB only laptop to a parallel printer? PC World don't

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership

2007-02-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:05 PM Subject: [ql-users] Quanta membership Yes, it obviously very difficult to get a response back from members who have left. Quanta is small enough for most of the departed to be

Re: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons

2007-02-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons To keep an old computer going you need a reasonable user-base and a perceived function. The Spectrum

Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?

2007-02-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC? Well ... 2 years is a long time in computing ... :-) ... so may be some optimism that new ideas can take seed. And in those 2 years 86

Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?

2007-02-13 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC? As a final thought Quanta could stimulate this by making a prize (£s X-prize) for the first team to say design and make a prototype

Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer

2007-02-09 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dave Walker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer Strange - all my PC's running XP have no problem using DD disks. Running is not the problem. Formatting is impossible - try it and you

Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer

2007-02-09 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David McCann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] PC to QL transfer On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:59 +, Dave Walker wrote: There is also some software (cannot remember the name off-hand) that can be run on

Re: [ql-users] QSpread problem

2007-01-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:11 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QSpread problem Are there any people on this list who use the latest versions of these (PTRGEN 2.02, WMAN 2.05, HOT_REXT 2.29) and, if so, what are the

[ql-users] QSpread problem

2007-01-20 Thread gwicks
This is an unusual request but is there anyone who has experience of running a recent version of QSpread (v. 4.04) under QDOS? The background is that one of our loyal QL Today readers has asked for help on this problem. He has a simple, but business QL use. His systems are the original mother

[ql-users] All free now, folks!

2007-01-01 Thread gwicks
As of midnight last night Just Words! ended all commercial activities. Full versions of the last remaining commercial programs, QL-2-PC, QL- Rhymes, Auto-Graph and Pindown can now be downloaded from the website software page. (These programs are now freeware and not public domain.) I have also

Re: [ql-users] Copy for QUANTA Magazine.

2006-11-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Copy for QUANTA Magazine At least that will leave the rest of the year free for other activities like PC Hurling - must challenge Dilwyns Gold medal next

Re: [ql-users] Copy for QUANTA Magazine.

2006-11-25 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:09 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Copy for QUANTA Magazine. John Gilpin wrote: Prompted by a short news item from David McCann, can I remind anyone who has anything to go

[ql-users] Byfleet 5th November

2006-11-01 Thread gwicks
Sorry I missed Tony's mailing about Byfleet, and thanks to Tony for including my details. Just Words! will be at the show, although about an hour late as I shall be travelling directly from the Sin Bin. We have a special offer at the show. All Just Words! products, including the commercial

[ql-users] Back to normal - I hope

2006-10-09 Thread gwicks
was resumed. Beeb.net has now done what it should have done years ago and set up effective spam filtering. Yesterday I received just 3 spams instead of the normal 70 - 90. Mind you I shall miss the occasional mailing from Christmas Island addressed to Godlike gwicks and telling me that 900 Japanese

[ql-users] Serious email problems

2006-09-24 Thread gwicks
Apologies to anyone attempting to email me privately. There are serious problems on my server at the moment. Incoming post is subject to a delay of up to 48 hours, and that means that some messages could bounce back. When they do come in they often come in in triplicate at different times. I

Re: [ql-users] I'm back (to stay)

2006-09-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:13 AM Subject: [ql-users] I'm back (to stay) A few messages to QLers individually... Geoff: My articles will resume shortly (once I unearth them from my 116 boxes ;-) Thanks.

Re: [ql-users] QLer ages - Membership numbers

2006-09-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Alex Wells To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLer ages - Membership numbers On Thursday 14 September 2006 20:43, John Gilpin wrote: You are quite correct (as usual) Geoff. Volume 23 Issue 2

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site - postscript

2006-09-02 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Updated web site PS ... Are you able to make to the Byfleet Show on 5th November 2006 ? This question was asked to Marcel, but could apply to most of

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-09-02 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Updated web site Malcolm Cadman wrote: So ... what in particular is painful about IE ? Mainly it's inherently unsafe to use it on the internet. No IE

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-29 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Updated web site Geoff - just for any newbies who read this list, maybe you should have included a link :-) Oh shame! Oh shame! I am always rebuking other

[ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-28 Thread gwicks
The Just Words! web site has been completely rewritten and is available for your inspection. When you enter the site you are given a choice of 4 pages: Downloads speaks for itself. Dictionaries allows you to download any of the Just Words! range of QTYP dictionaries. Help and advice covers

Re: [ql-users] Byfleet '06

2006-08-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Ken Bain To: ql-users list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:31 AM Subject: [ql-users] Byfleet '06 Remember remember There will be a QUANTA Workshop on Sunday 5th of November,in Byfleet Village Hall,presented by the London Group and

Re: [ql-users] BMP second release

2006-08-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] BMP second release Like a PIC, but with a 14 byte header instead of 10 bytes. The extra long word is usually a zero before the $4AFC flag. Just out of

Re: [ql-users] Easel graphics

2006-08-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Easel graphics Start QPC2 in QL colour mode. Start Xchange and Easel. Press F3 D(efault) and 4 for a 40 column display. This is then mode 8, Yes it is MODE 8

Re: [ql-users] Programs using colour themes

2006-07-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: [ql-users] Programs using colour themes I'm preparing an article about colour themes and intend to try to build a list of programs available which use System

Re: [ql-users] QL Today v10

2006-07-01 Thread gwicks
Thanks Dilwyn,and also Brian Kemmett. I wondered what would happen after the change of editor. Good to see that Brian is loyal. This is a strange experience replying from an internet cafe on machine that has a badly working space key. Hope to be back in full action at the end of next week,

Re: [ql-users] QStripper

2006-06-14 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David McCann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:58 PM Subject: [ql-users] QStripper Implementing T87 support would be a nightmare. QL2PC tries to convert T91 files to rtf, but the process is very uncertain. For fonts, T87 just puts a

Re: [ql-users] get back on topic

2006-06-13 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] get back on topic I can't understand your comment about Manchester always being a difficult location for a show. It has a brilliant transport

Re: [ql-users] Wkshop locations

2006-06-13 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: [ql-users] Wkshop locations Where is the centre of gravity of members or possible attendees ? Certainly Manchester is not as peripheral as Portsmouth or

Re: [ql-users] get back on topic

2006-06-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] get back on topic I still don't understand the caption about 'hanging two dwarves' - could one of you enlighten me? Neither do I! How did the Hove show go

Re: [ql-users] get back on topic

2006-06-06 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] get back on topic must... Having just got back and seen the latest QL today, who have I upset, seeing as Roy and Geoff seem to have taken every

[ql-users] Jochen - Private Message

2006-06-06 Thread gwicks
Sorry to use the list to convey this private message. For some reason emails to Jochen are bouncing back, in my case with messages that I am on a database as a spammer. I have replied to your email about Quanta with a copy to Roy. Perhaps Roy could forward this, Best Wishes, Geoff

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-06 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ? It can't be that difficult ... I have a freeware program on RISC OS called appropriately enough AntiWord. Which takes any M$ Word file

Re: [ql-users] printer problem (OT)

2006-04-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] printer problem - Original Message - From: Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:52 PM Subject:

[ql-users] Tut! Tut! Quanta

2006-03-19 Thread gwicks
Could we have a little consistency over the Manchester workshop and AGM please? In your last Quanta Magazine advert and in your next QL-Today advert the show times are: Sat: 10.00 - 5.00 Sun: 10.00 - 5.00 In your advert in Tony's Eindhoven email and on the Quanta website the times are: Sat:

Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer

2006-03-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer 4. Once you've transferred the archived QDOS Unzip to QL system, how to unpack it when you don't have an unzip (the Chicken

Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer

2006-03-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL disk transfer In terms of the sort of query I was raising, most people in this situation seem to manage handling Unzip reasonably well, where

Re: [ql-users] Nightmare scenario

2006-02-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Nightmare scenario How about making the program and toolkit available somewhere so we could take a look at it? Id be willing to have a go,

Re: [ql-users] Nightmare scenario

2006-02-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Nightmare scenario Supercharge was the early version of Turbo, I believe. The user probably needs to ensure that a version of the

Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26

2006-02-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26 Here is my list of most used programs: Qspread v. 4.03 QD v.b.01 QPAC1 v. 1.00 QPAC2 v. 1.42

Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26

2006-02-18 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26 We are all aware of the failings of the various QUANTA committees, Geoff. Why not send me a list of your

Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26

2006-02-18 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26 I don't routinely keep a list of what versions of all programs I'm at, but I'm sure given a day off I could come up with a

[ql-users] Nightmare scenario

2006-02-18 Thread gwicks
This is a very long shot. I have been contacted by a Quanta member who has just upgraded to QPC2 and he asked for help in running a very old program. The program is so old that it was compiled using Supercharge and the author tells me the source code is no longer available. The problem seems

Re: [ql-users] Software versions was Sedit 2.26

2006-02-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Sedit 2.26 I am getting hopelessly lost and confused regarding what the current version of which programme is the latest and which

Re: [ql-users] Today 20 years ago...

2006-01-23 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Today 20 years ago... Hi Geoff, This raises the point that I raised in my last personal statement. Two members of the present committee are retiring and

Re: [ql-users] QPC Print - Document CD

2006-01-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection, QPC2 and QPC Print Could be worth collating all this information that is coming through about printer drivers for publication in the Quanta

Re: [ql-users] sudoku

2006-01-09 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] screenshoots SNIP In addition, Geoff, I have *almost* got a working Sudoku generator giving the options of easy, medium, hard and

[ql-users] QL Today Sudoku

2006-01-03 Thread gwicks
I have had a complaint from a reader that the last line of Ian Pine's sample input file is missing. For those who need it, it is: 010407030, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] screenshoots

2006-01-01 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Michael Grunditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] screenshoots - Original Message - From: Michael Grunditz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:24 PM

Re: [ql-users] Enhanced Pop

2005-12-26 Thread gwicks
Even better news. We have another article from Per coming up in issue 4 on using digital sound in your programs. Please let me know of there are other topics on some of the newer programming possibilities you would like covered. Then I can start twisting a few arms, Best wishes, Geoff -

Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)

2005-11-27 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC) Sadly, they dont appear to be entirely file-compatible with the QL versions, so rather pointless to have them.. There was a

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