Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread François Van Emelen
Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to format a 'win'. The manual says: WIN_FORMAT 1

[Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Peter Fox
Hi there, I seem to be having terrible problem with QPC2 and Win 8 and 8.1. When I start QPC2, it always starts with the splash screen that you can avoid by ticking the box in the bottom left corner. In my case even if the box is ticked the splash screen cannot be avoided. I have now tried to

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
This unfortunately doesn't answer my question. Where are your QXL.WIN files located? I have a suspicion and need the complete path. Marcel Peter wrote: Hi Marcel, Thank you for coming back to me. I have been writing a diary for a very long time and these files were in Diary. Additionally,

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Fox wrote: I have now tried to transfer QXL.win and QXL2.win back to a Windows 7 machine and have failed. The dates on the QXL files are 25 October 2014 even though there are files dated July 2015 within the files. Where are the files located? Marcel

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
I have no idea how you even managed to do put them there in Windows 8, this should be pretty much impossible for normal users. Also, they would be write protected there. Note for everybody: DO NOT PUT FILES IN C:\ Search your drive for other copies of QXL.WIN which are more recent. The ones in

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Marcel, Thank you for coming back to me. I have been writing a diary for a very long time and these files were in Diary. Additionally, I have many QSpread files in QXL2.win which are being updates every day. When I said that the dates on the QXL files are dated 25 October 2014 those are

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Marcel, The QXL files are on C:\ and are C:\QXL.win and C:\QXL2.win I hope that this the answer you need. TIA Regards, Peter On 17.07.2015 09:54, Marcel Kilgus wrote: This unfortunately doesn't answer my question. Where are your QXL.WIN files located? I have a suspicion and need the

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Marcel, I have looked on both D and E: and cannot find anything but thank you for the warning. I this a case of the file being called something else? can you help me on the other matter of increasing the size of QXL.win partitions, please? TIA Regards, Peter On 17.07.2015 10:06,

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Graeme Gregory
Hi Peter, Hit the Windows button and type *.win and windows should show you all locations of .win files. Graeme On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, at 10:20 AM, peterfox wrote: Hi Marcel, I have looked on both D and E: and cannot find anything but thank you for the warning. I this a case of the file

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter On 17.07.2015 10:27, Marcel Kilgus wrote: peterfox wrote: I have looked on both D and E: and cannot find anything but thank you for the

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Graeme, Thank you for coming back to me. I have tried this and got a lot of answers but none of the correct ones. Can you please enlighten me on creating a new larger QXL.win? I have lost all my documentation, unfortunately and am groping in the dark. I think I have managed to

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread peterfox
Hi Geoff, Thank you for coming back to me. I am very vague about making QXL.Wins but is the command that you have given me is used in Windows or QPC2? TIA Regards, Peter On 17.07.2015 17:10, Geoff Wicks wrote: When you formatted a win disk formerly it was saved on the C: drive. If you

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Michael Bulford
Hi Peter, can you help me on the other matter of increasing the size of QXL.win partitions, please? I've had this problem myself. What I did was to create another QXL.win file, formatted it to a much higher capacity, then copied all the files across. To preserve the original dates, I used

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Geoff Wicks
On 17/07/2015 18:07, peterfox wrote: Hi Geoff, Thank you for coming back to me. I am very vague about making QXL.Wins but is the command that you have given me is used in Windows or QPC2? From within QPC2. I can understand your problem as I have also been grappling with it this week.

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Geoff Wicks
On 17/07/2015 10:06, Marcel Kilgus wrote: I have no idea how you even managed to do put them there in Windows 8, this should be pretty much impossible for normal users. Also, they would be write protected there. Note for everybody: DO NOT PUT FILES IN C:\ Search your drive for other copies of

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Geoff Wicks
When you formatted a win disk formerly it was saved on the C: drive. If you format a win disk under windows 8 it is saved in a subdirectory. I cannot remember the path but the command PRINT WIN_DRIVE(x), where x is the number of the drive, will give you the path. Sorry a typo. The

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all. If you he'd over to Dilwyn's Web repository of all that is good in the QL World, and download my old Winback program, you can create a new hard drive file as win2, then set the clock and make a full backup of your current win1. Winback will set the win2 file dates etc exactly as

[Ql-Users] New QL Assembly Language Book.

2015-07-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Greetings everyone. After much work, some wailing, some gnashing of teeth and a good few hours typing on my phone while on holiday recently, I have finished updating the file at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf which is the good old Assembly Language book I

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread pjwitte
On 17/07/2015 10:36, Peter Fox wrote: Unfortuantely, I cannot remember how to increase the size of the QXL files because I have run out of space in QXL.win Can anyone help please? TIA and Regards, Here is a description on how to increase the size of your QLX.WIN drive on QPC2. Say you

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Win 8

2015-07-17 Thread pjwitte
On 17/07/2015 17:27, François Van Emelen wrote: Op 17/07/2015 om 11:38 schreef peterfox: Hi Marcel, I have had another look on C: and it is not obvious. Any Suggestions, please? How can one create a larger QXL.Win, please? TIA Regards Peter Hi, I suppose you need the instructions to