Re: [ql-users] floppy drive and keyboard

2006-12-16 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP If a file ROM1, ROM2, ROM3, or ROM4...exists in root directory of RomDisq, then this will be initialised prior to F1/F2. This file must be either a

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 15 Dec 2006 at 15:57, George Gwilt wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Try this on the current versions of SMSQE (on Q60 or

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Yes, but -32768 does. Notice the minus ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread P Witte
Marcel Kilgus writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Yes, but -32768 does. Notice the minus ;-) Ah,

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Yes, but -32768 does. Notice the minus ;-) Marcel As an interesting

Re: [ql-users] unzip

2006-12-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I have been following the mail with spcial interest as I have had unzip problems for a while. I found suddenly ACP Archivers would not unzip. It did all the actions but there was no unzipped file. I have had to unzip from the command line using:- data_use

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Laurence W Reeves
P Witte wrote: Marcel Kilgus writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just doesn't fit in an integer. Yes,

Re: [ql-users] floppy drive and keyboard

2006-12-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
If a file ROM1, ROM2, ROM3, or ROM4... up to rom8 Ah, even the mostrecent manual on your website only lists up to ROM4 (not that I'd ever need more). -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread George Gwilt
On 16 Dec 2006, at 17:01, Laurence W Reeves wrote: P Witte wrote: Marcel Kilgus writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and 32768 just

Re: [ql-users] floppy drive and keyboard

2006-12-16 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dilwyn Jones wrote: Glad Mplane is not the problem and that RomDisq has rescued you. Looks like something is generating interrupts which the Aurora is acting upon for some reason. There must be something wrong with the Aurora I guess. Now, with

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread P Witte
Laurence W Reeves writes: P Witte wrote: Marcel Kilgus writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 15 Dec 2006 at 15:57, George Gwilt wrote: On an ordinary QL I can type f%=-32768/1 and find that f% now contains -32768. Well that must be a nice bug. unless I'm mistaken, 32768/1 = 32768 and

Re: [ql-users] Not so Simple Arithmetic

2006-12-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Laurence W Reeves wrote: This strikes me as a *very* serious bug. I don't quite think so. It's easily detectable, i.e. doesn't give a wrong result that could go unnoticed but is a hard error. Despite this fact it's been in there for probably well over a decade, so in the end it can't have been