Re: [Ql-Users] Stella

You might have seen this, perhaps? https://web.archive.org/web/20050914114333/http Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPTR

Morning Wolf, You mention,on the Web page, a readme.txt file for the qptr sources, but the zip file doesn't appear to have one in it. Probably a minor oversight, but I thought you better know, just in case. Cheers, Norm. On 15 March 2017 07:04:26 GMT+00:00, Wolf wrote: >Hi

Re: [Ql-Users] QXLDump utility.

ssing >qxl.win drives. There are 4 classes (windriver, windrive, winfile and >windir). You could just port those to C++, without too much trouble, I >guess. > >Have fun! > >Wolfgang > >On 14/03/2017 14:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> Thanks Marcel. I had help though,

Re: [Ql-Users] QXLDump utility.

Thanks Marcel. I had help though, it's not all my own work, John Hall and Daniele Terdina pointed me in various correct directions when I was confused! Cheers, Norm. On 14 March 2017 13:43:17 GMT+00:00, Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: >Norman Dunbar wrote: >&

Re: [Ql-Users] QXLDump utility.

Mar 2017 at 12:24, Norman Dunbar wrote: > >> I'm playing with QXL.WIN files, again! >> [Snip] > >I hope write access also becomes part of the playground ;) > >Peter > >___ >QL-Users Mailing List -- Sent from my Android

[Ql-Users] QXLDump utility.

I'm playing with QXL.WIN files, again! As part of something I'm working on, I needed a simple way to examine the internals of a qxl.win file in an easy manner. To this end, QXLDump was born. At the moment I have a download for 64 bit Linux and 32/64 bit Windows only. You can see a sample of my

Re: [Ql-Users] QL/E v3.16 (Codename "Snow white swan", Edition 1702) is out now!

Sorry. Full stop after "Marcel" and not a comma! Cheers, Norm. On 13 March 2017 13:58:06 GMT+00:00, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: >Afternoon Urs, > >I'm in full agreement with Marcel, I have not yet looked at any of your >QL/E offerings *in any dept

Re: [Ql-Users] QL/E v3.16 (Codename "Snow white swan", Edition 1702) is out now!

Afternoon Urs, I'm in full agreement with Marcel, I have not yet looked at any of your QL/E offerings *in any depth* , not because of any lack of interest, but because I have my system running how I prefer it. As for feedback, after many years of writing stuff in various QL magazines, and

Re: [Ql-Users] German Minerva ROM

I'm rather fond of the AtTiny85 myself, I have to admit. :-) Cheers, Norm. On 6 March 2017 13:26:59 GMT+00:00, Marcel Kilgus wrote: >Derek Stewart wrote: >> I have had a Minipro TL866CS for a long time and works very well. >> >> It does have problems with very old

Re: [Ql-Users] WXQT2 alternative?

Hi Peter, Maybe! My original intent was just to explore the qxl.win file. Then it got updated to extract files. I never intended it to do any updating on the grounds that a small error in my code could destroy someone's work. However, if and when I get time, I will look into it. Cheers,

Re: [Ql-Users] WXQT2 alternative?

Afternoon all, The QXLWIN tool never updates a qxl.win file. It can read and extract files from a qxl.win, to Windows or Linux (or Mac?) But not the other way around. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and a few more surprises

And a couple of the pages have some hand written notes, mine! They may or may not be accurate, I can't remember, so take care if you follow them. As far as I remember, they refer to loading an index file, which the manual mentions, but doesn't explain. An index file us what the application

Re: [Ql-Users] Email attachments

Evening Christopher, On a Windows pc? Never open anything attached that you are suspicious of etc. In a QL, just have fun. I wrote a QL virus many many years ago when all viruses spread by floppy disc. I never released it into the wild. Many viruses, trojans or whatever they are called this

Re: [Ql-Users] Archive Database Internals - analyser and extractor

Well, it seems that the 8 byte floats are not IEEE doubles then! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Archive Database Internals - analyser and extractor

-precision_floating-point_format. We shall see. Cheers, Norm. On 5 December 2016 19:46:55 GMT+00:00, jms1 <j...@supanet.com> wrote: >On 2016-12-04 19:25, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> https://github.com/NormanDunbar/ArchiveExtractor is all I'm saying! >> >> Except that the docs (Tex

[Ql-Users] Archive Database Internals - analyser and extractor

with the Borland C++ compiler and there's a link to get you a copy, legally, for free too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

In which case, you would assume he would notice? Surely? On 7 November 2016 13:42:16 GMT+00:00, Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: >Norman Dunbar wrote: >> It seems that from time to time your emails appear to be blank >> replies. I've had a couple re

Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

Updated again today. There's a new tool to extract all known keywords. Not much use I admit, but I needed it myself. QPC commands have now been added based on Marcel's manual version 4.02 based on QPC 4.04. Enjoy. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse

Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

Hi John, It seems that from time to time your emails appear to be blank replies. I've had a couple recently. Are you aware of this? Cheers, Norm. On 7 November 2016 09:14:14 GMT+00:00, jms1 wrote: >On 2016-11-05 02:37, RWAP Software wrote: >> On 2016-11-04 19:09, Ralf

Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

down to the section on AtTiny85 Devices for the details. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

in the truly wonderful DJToolkit (version 1.16) which Dilwyn probably thinks is the best QL toolkit of all time. ;-) Enjoy. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

[Ql-Users] Online SuperBasic Manual.

For those not watching the QL Forum [and why not? :-)], Rich recently posted this Following a lot of work by Norman, the community edition of the SBASIC / SuperBASIC Reference Manual is now available at: http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ There are some background notes

Re: [Ql-Users] Mail merge with Quill

Yes, it's fine from home. Interesting article. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Mail merge with Quill

<gdgq...@gmail.com>: > >> >> > On 5 Oct 2016, at 11:08, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> >wrote: >> > >> > Unfortunately, I'm getting a message that the Web page is not >working. >> >> Worked OK with me. >

Re: [Ql-Users] Mail merge with Quill

Unfortunately, I'm getting a message that the Web page is not working. :-( Cheers, Norm. On 5 October 2016 09:04:14 BST, Giorgio Garabello wrote: >http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/mail-merge-with-quill-a-powerful-feature-for-an-historical-software/

Re: [Ql-Users] OT HD Recovery

He said: Sorry for the OT , about keeping backups there is still an incredible amount of people who think that hard drives are indestructible ( beyond the fact that making an accidental delete does not take much ) . I have a friend who has totally melted the HD of his laptop ( a seagate ) , I

Re: [Ql-Users] Software Preservation Project - Tasks

Dilwyn, The link https://quanta.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/QUANTA-HELPLINE-07.pdf gets me to a security page telling me that quanta.org.uk is unsafe. It seems that the security certificate - SSL? - expired some 129 days ago. Is there ome one at Quanta who needs to know? Cheers,

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

Whoops! To infringe, verb. An infringement noun. Apologies. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

Still a verb. It's an action. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infringe I wish I could get out of the sun! But it's too sunny and way to hot for a Jock like me! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

No, please don't shut up. Healthy discourse is good. I was attempting to say that comparing copyright theft to homosexuality was comparing apples and oranges. One is "inbuilt" and hard to avoid, the other is willingly done. They are completely different to each other. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

The USA have a "way" of these things, and always to their advantage. Much like the so called "special relationship " that exists between Britain and America. They take, we, suckers, give. I think someone tried a similar thing as Disney, in the UK and effectively got told to piss off! Might

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

PS. When it was still illegal to be gay in the UK, my uncle had to hide away with his friends and lovers. He couldn't be open about it. However, his sexuality was not his choice, it was just how he was "built". Breaching someone's copy rights, is voluntary, and done pretty much knowingly.

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

Afternoon Marcel, OK, perhaps stealing was the wrong word, copyright theft is better as that's what it is known in court, I think. The law is the law, regardless, else anarchy results. But laws can be changed - 27Mhz CB radio in the UK back in the early 80s, same sex partnerships, then

Re: [Ql-Users] R: Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

I follow the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it takes me back to my ZX81, Spectrum and QL days. Everytime they do something new, there are always trolls saying "why isn't this free" or "why have you not done that?" etc. No mater how good anyone's intentions or deeds, some small brained idiot will

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software Preservation Project

Hi Dilwyn, Don't feed the trolls is good advice, in any situation. I have to admit to feeding the ones who come calling and telling me that Windows is reporting a nasty virus each time I connect to the Internet. Those I consider fair game, and it's game on. I kept them on the phone over 2

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personalSoftware PreservationProject

Try Clued Up Communications, London. That's where he's been since 2000. He's done a couple of java based sql databases too it seems. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personalSoftware PreservationProject

Fred doesn't reply to emails asking about t87. I asked years ago when I found he was involved in Firebird SQL, a database I work with, and write documentation for, but as soon as I asked anything about his QL stuff, silence. Good luck to anyone trying. Cheers, Norm. It's 10.30 pm here now,

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawal of my personal Software PreservationProject

Greetings from Turkey. It's 45 degrees here and as a pale blue Scotsman, I'm f*cked! Right, while I've never really bothered with the software preservation part of Rich's empire, I certainly do appreciate the hard work Rich puts in, and it sounds like it's having detrimental effects on his

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin - another release

I've now uploaded the 32 bit Linux version of QxlWin. My work here is done! :-) Unless Dilwyn finds a break of course! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin - another release

On 27/06/16 16:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Hmm, I seem to be failing in my duties. I am afraid to say I haven't been able to break this version. YET, Norman... In that case, carry on Dilwyn. I know I can rely on you! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin - another release

On 27/06/16 14:57, Norman Dunbar wrote: Version 1.0.7 blah blah blah etc. I've now uploaded the 64 bit Linux version of QxlWin. I will get around to a 32 bit version as soon as I can, but I need a suitable 32 bit Distro installing in a VirtualBox and I don't have one at present. Cheers

[Ql-Users] Qxlwin - another release

Version 1.0.7 A new installer and executable have been uploaded to the files are for Windows 32 and 64 bit. Linux files will follow soon. Tonight most likely! The new version: * Allows the source code to be easily downloaded from the Help->About menu. * Allows any file type to be saved to the

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

I've uploaded a new version for windows users this morning. There's a full installer if you've not downloaded before, and a bare bones exe if you have. To save your bandwidth, just get the exe if your run the installer already, and copy it over the existing file of that name. Cheers, Norm.

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

You would be better setting up your own account and creating your repositories. As I do not want to have lots of QL Gits around. Too late! They are all over this list! ;-) Speaking as a QL Git myself that is. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

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Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

, but at present, I've not been able to discover how to do this. I'm looking into it. I built an installer for Linux 64 bit tonight. Interesting that the installer was 27 Mb in size even though the binary file is about 115 Kb. I decided not to bother with a Linux Installer! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Fyi: https://sourceforge.net/p/qxlwin/tickets/2/ Cheers, Norm. On 22 June 2016 13:09:11 BST, Michael Bulford wrote: >Hi Norman, > >A feature I would like to see in Qxlwin is this: When re opening >Qxlwin, it resumes exactly where it was the last time it was used.

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Drink taller? Deinstaller! -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Hi Michael, I'll see what I can do re your request. In the qxlwin installation folder there's a file called maintenancetool.exe. run that. It's an updater and drink taller. It gets rid of everything prior to a new release. Uninstall would be a better name! It might be possible, according to

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Dilwyn, Are you getting update email by any chance, not these on ql-us...@q-v-d.com, but from Source Forge? Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

OK, final release for today. Bug fixed, the device root was not in the tree on the files tab. If you opened a file or folder then you could no longer get back to the root. This is now working. I never noticed it in all these years of playing with this utility. Sigh. The file viewer tab now

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Following a brief chat on the QL forum chat line, last night, I've updated QxlWin again. Only for windows at present. (Early lunch today!) The application now saves size and position information, the last file that was OPEN WHEN YOU CLOSED THE PROGRAM, and whether you used decimal or hex for

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Hi Dilwyn, Let me know if you get any spam from the subscription. It will be interesting to see if the new owners of Sourceforge attempt any. The previous owners had far too many adverts etc. So far so good under the new regime. You are my first subscriber. :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

OK, I took an extended lunch and will be late going home tonight. I hope you all appreciate it! :-) Dilwyn request has been granted. Double clicking a folder on the right will make it the current folder without displaying an error message. Also, the fonts drop down on the view file tab now

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Hi Dilwyn, I it shouldn't be showing folders on the right only files. I'll fix it. The folders appear on the left and are clickable. I need a longer lunch break! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

This is now fixed. Files that have silly name sizes are ignored as they are obviously not valid. Files that have a name of exactly 36 characters are also now, dealt with properly. A new installer has been uploaded. Cheers, Norm. On 20 June 2016 12:41:36 BST, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dun

Re: [Ql-Users] Qxlwin

Aye, I've tested that here and it seg faults. The reason being there is a file or directory which has a name length of 13,728 and another of 64,528. I was ure we only allowed 36 characters! It's fine on all my own win files, so these failing ones are definitely broken by the look of things.

[Ql-Users] Qxlwin new windows installer

I've now managed to upload a proper windows installer for qxlwin, https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/files. Pick windows etc. Instructions are at http://sourceforge.net/p/qxlwin/wiki/Home Hopefully this just works now. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please

[Ql-Users] Qxlwin

The qwindows.dll that was uploaded earlier should, contrary to what I said Earley, go into a "platforms" folder located beneath the one where the application and the other dlls go. Let me know how you get on and I'll update the docs, thanks. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

this. From the docs on the Qt web site, it needs to be in the application/plugins/platforms folder. Why they make this complicated I don't know, it was never like this on the previous versions. Good luck. Let me know how you get on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

On 18/06/16 08:58, Derek Stewart wrote: Do you have a Linux version. We now have a 64 bit Linux version ready for download. https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/files/Linux%2064bit/ Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

Hi Derek, QT source code is available for download, so porting could be done. However, it's written in C++ as opposed to plain C, so we would need to port gcc or g++ first. I suspect it's a non starter. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

Hi Dilwyn, that's how windows works. Linux too. These are shared libraries that are not statically linked to the application. So if I was to upgrade Qstripper to use the latest version of QT, then those same shared files can now be used by both applications. Many years ago, the best C and

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

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Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

Hi Derek, I wrote it on Linux originally but the code compiles for windows too without any changes. I'll try and upload a Linux version ASAP. I didn't get time today and I am away tomorrow. Probably Monday. The windows version is missing a file qwindows.dll. so that won't work on windows or

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

Alternatively, this might work...If you can't wait! ;-) http://api.256file.com/qwindows.dll/en-download-59653.html Save it in the same folder as the rest of the files. But for goodness sake, virus scan it first. This is Windows after all! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

OK, success! It seems that a dll named qwindows.dll is also needed for QT applications these days. Not only that, when I tested today in a blank directory with nothing on PATH at all, it still worked fine. Hmm. Il get that uploaded ASAP. Probably Monday now though, I don't have Windows at

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

quot;". >Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. > >This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an >unusual way. >Please contact the application's support team for more information. > >Michael > > > >- Original Message - >From:

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

PS. I'm at work. I didn't have a qxlwin file to test with and the QPC demo is blocked by our thought police software. Let me know if you have problems or foibles. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

ile in the viewer to save it as a PC file. Beware of ql to PC character conversion though. HTH. Cheers, Norm. On 17 June 2016 09:20:18 BST, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: >I have a utility on https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/ which >should allow anyone to extrac

Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please

I have a utility on https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxlwin/ which should allow anyone to extract any file from a QXL win file. However, I've just checked and it appears I've never uploaded a compiled version. Oops! Like qstripper, it runs on Linux, Windows and if you have QT, on Mac if you

Re: [Ql-Users] A feature or a bug?

Yes. Cheers, Norm. On 14 June 2016 20:53:15 BST, "Ralf Reköndt" wrote: >Does this ommit TK2? > >- Original Message - >From: "George Gwilt" > >> Using Turbo Toolkit’s DEVICE_STATUS might be safer. >> >> George >

Re: [Ql-Users] A feature or a bug?

You could use max_devs and dev_name from the truly wonderful DJTOOLKIT too, if you were inclined! I'm surprised that DJ didn't mention it! ;) Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] Feature or bug?

I'm not 100% certain, but possibly f$ is suffering from being prefixed by datad$ which obviously exists hence the line 30 execution. I'm not near my QPC at the moment so I can't confirm. What do you get if you set dadtad $ to something like empty or even, something that doesn't exist?

Re: [Ql-Users] Help Please

Hi Peter, Sounds like this is a pseudo hard drive file for QXL, QPC etc. You don't open it as such, you connect it to QPC, for example, as a hard drive on the startup screen. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 arrays

Alternatively, are you running through an array from 0 to 100 but comparing with some other element, say in a bubble sort, where that other element is some positive offset from the current index in the loop? Been there, done that! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail.

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 arrays

Hi Michael, Sounds like an off by one error. Do you use for loops? While loops. Do loops? Etc to process elements in the array? If so, do you have a # define to limit the array index to 100 rather than using some embedded magic number? #define LIMIT 101 ... int index; int array[LIMIT]; for

Re: [Ql-Users] ACOS_2

Found it! SQL> -- Without brackets. Value for A adjusted. SQL> select power(1.414214,2) - power(4.242641,2) - power(2.828427,2) / (-2 * 4.2426 41 * 2.828427) as answer from dual; ANSWER -- -15.68 SQL> -- With brackets. Value for A adjusted. SQL> select (power(1.414214,2) -

Re: [Ql-Users] ACOS_2

Hi Colin, Checking that values are in range in order to call a built in function, procedure etc is normal. At least it as been for as long as I've been programming - since pre ZX81 days. Even now I still check and this includes when writing code to run on my numerous Oracle databases -

Re: [Ql-Users] DBAS source code

Thanks Marcel. Sorry Bob, I was of no help whatsoever. :-( Cheers, Norm. On 27 April 2016 14:52:59 BST, Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: >Norman Dunbar wrote: >> Dilwyn has www.dilwyn.me.uk/database/dbas.zip which is version 2.12 >> and ap

Re: [Ql-Users] Today is a very special day for me...

Enjoy your special day. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

SETW is the program I was trying to remember, and failing miserably! Dilwyn, sorry, I can't remember which edition of Quanta the articles were originally published in. I checked my ources and they are not Quill, nor are they Perfection. I have a vague recollection that they might be Write.exe

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

Thanks all for the birthday wishes. It seems I'm not the only one with "leaky RAM" then, judging by the comments. Could someone please put John Gilpin out of his PDF misery and feed the Easy Pointer Guide I wrote through QStripper and save the files as PDFs. The utility creates text searchable

Re: [Ql-Users] EasyPtr and me

What Darren said! ;-) A most enjoyable read, thanks Marcel. I might even take you up on the offer of EasyMenu 4 sometime, but these days I'm using George's not-quite-WYSIWYG assembly utilities. (Due to old age - 56 today - I'm afraid I can't remember the damned name of the utility I use!

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E boot sequence

r versions to come out, at the moment it's Java, Javascript or Python only. See https://github.com/NormanDunbar/Tnsnames_checker for an even less interesting example! I'm definitely not learning Perl, no way, not now, not ever! :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Sqlite C library

Now that I didn't try! :-) Cheers, Norm. On 19 March 2016 18:22:16 GMT+00:00, Giorgio Garabello <g.garabe...@gmail.com> wrote: >and using the gcc cross compiler? > >2016-03-19 19:15 GMT+01:00 Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk>: > >> Hi Massimino, >>

Re: [Ql-Users] Sqlite C library

Hi Massimino, I looked at this some time back and found that the "all in one" file was far too big for C68 to compile so it needed to be split back into its separate parts sign and a make file created for it. And that's before looking in the code to find out if there's anything that might need

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E boot sequence

it for SBASIC's new hexadecimal and binary floating point values. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQ/E boot sequence

njoy. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Instrutions for running SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi

Maybe it's your class path? echo "${CLASSPATH}" Should show you where the java system will look for jar and class files etc. Look for "." which indicates "current directory". The path separator is a colon ":". You might get lucky if you do this: export

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: important message

On 7 February 2016 02:45:25 GMT+00:00, renatobariga...@tin.it wrote: >Hello! > > > >New message, please read > > > >renatobariga...@tin.it > >___ >QL-Users Mailing List Nope, not a chance! -- Sent from my Android

Re: [Ql-Users] SMSQmulator on RPi2 (Re: Tynemouth Software QL keyboard USB interface)

And this, from 2014, shows how to install Oracle Java 8. On a Pi. http://www.rpiblog.com/2014/03/installing-oracle-jdk-8-on-raspberry-pi.html. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly Language eComic - Issue 3 now available.

Morning Marcos, I actually use LaTeX now and did do for the "book" and the eComic issues. I found it easier to write than DocBook even using the XML Mind XXE editor which is pretty good for DocBook. Strangely enough, I'm looking at Asciidoc at the moment but I'm only getting started. For

[Ql-Users] Assembly Language eComic - Issue 3 now available.

after many months of the odd hour grabbed here and there, between work, driving, home life and so forth - did I mention Christmas, New Year and a holiday to boot - the latest somewhat exciting issue of the Assembly Language eMagazine is now available for download. Point your browsers at

Re: [Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions

On 29/01/16 12:37, Norman Dunbar wrote: Greetings all. I'm in the process of finishing off the latest slightly exciting edition of the "assembly language e-comic" and I'm thinking of upgrading my code, from the next issue, to start using Gwass instead of Gwasl. I hope also to eventu

[Ql-Users] Emulators and 68020 instructions

Greetings all. I'm in the process of finishing off the latest slightly exciting edition of the "assembly language e-comic" and I'm thinking of upgrading my code, from the next issue, to start using Gwass instead of Gwasl. I hope also to eventually cover the "new" instructions in the 68020

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

oment - have advised my ISP. > >Dilwyn > >-----Original Message- >From: Norman Dunbar >Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 2:48 PM >To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com ; ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com >Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10 > >Hi Tim, > >On 16/01/16 20:03, Timothy

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

just possibly, you need to have your Linux computer set up as a SAMBA client to the Windows Samba server in order to print. This might help: http://www.printmanager.com/cms.php?aid=82=1=8 Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

much nearly all gone. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 <> W10

Hi Tim, > Instead of Linux Mint, I went with Lubuntu (Ubuntu light). I first > installed Linux on an older Lenovo with 512MB of memory. Linux Mint > would hardly start, but Lubuntu worked great. I borrowed my wife's old Dell Inspiring laptop and put Mint 17 32 bit on it. With Cinnamon

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