Re: [Ql-Users] Undue modesty?

;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

) and/or PDF Document (application/binary) For each, choose a program/option from the drop down - I suspect you are set to save file or similar. Ok your way out and test. Should work. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

And, just to be awkward, on Windows it's: Tools-Options. Then, the PDF's are described as Adobe Acrobat Documents rather than PDF etc. Consistency? What's that then? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

) and/or PDF Document (application/binary) For each, choose a program/option from the drop down - I suspect you are set to save file or similar. Ok your way out and test. Should work. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

Excuse me? Why did this arrive twice I wonder? :-( -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

Re: [Ql-Users] PDF files (was Undue modesty?)

, Save file ..., Use default or Use Other Maybe us Unixy types don't get the option to preview in browser then? Thanks, Welcome. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] WORD by any other name

On 19/08/11 22:32, QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote: John in Wales PS Yes, .pdf's!, tif's and more, are up for evaluation. Given that you are John in Wales, how about Taffs instead of Tifs? ;-) Cheers, Norm. (Jocks against Jpegs!) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

long startup times etc for her. Ok, I'll stop ranting now! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

answer (e.g. Jimmy has ideas on what happened) I'll make sure I document it somewhere for everyone's benefit. Turn off UAC! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

through Vista all supported and were able to work with floppies. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

to complete in due course. I hope. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

On 23/08/11 20:07, Norman Dunbar wrote: Linux cannot (yet) read a floppy image from a QL, but it is something I have to complete in due course. I hope. Except, I think it can. CTOOLS or similar? I'm sure that can read a QL floppy image, mounted on a loopback, on Linux. Cheers, Norm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7 (Norman Dunbar)

, the image can be read by the ctools utility - at least, I think that's the correct name. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7

you mind zipping up an image and emailing it to me directly please so I can test the fixes? If you have something suitable. Thanks. norman (at) dunbar-it (dot) co (dot) uk. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: [Raspberry Pi] August update - boards back and running content

their old QLs. Ok, confess, who was it? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: [Raspberry Pi] August update - boards back and running content

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Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Update on my projects etc...

Gear, how hard can it be? ;-) I have the following which work: US QL with JSU ROMs (Wish I had plain JS ROMs), I'm sure I mentioned having a JS QL going spare a while back? Might not have microdrives though. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe

[Ql-Users] USB Floppy Drives, emulators and so on

on SourceForge as a project? At least then there's a safe central place for future enhancements? I'll update that as I experiment. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Drives, emulators and so on

using SBasic or QPAC2 results in a noise 1.44MB Format. Windows 7 still to come. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

with the latest in printing and DVD duplication equipment and that most, if not all, is done by hand. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion

. Open a qxl.win style hard disc and explore Again, works fine on Windows and Linux, be interesting to know if it works on MACs too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] SD - floppy

- it seems to know to read both sides and happily creates the image. Once you have the image on your QL, zip it up and whizz it over the wherever you want it to be and test it? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

Re: [Ql-Users] SD - floppy

that to an HD disc. Then do the second half to another HD disc. Transfer to destination, concatenate both files together again and Robert is your Mother's Brother! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

enough to use was the Apple ][. With twin 5.5 floppies - then were the days! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

the QL to read it once converted. Probably because you have read a whole side at once. Then the other. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Dilwyn's scanner

connects over the network to it. I was never a great fan of VMs and especially VMWare (I used it at work - very slow on a Win 2000 host - but VirtualBox, I have found, to be about the best there is. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

is currently missing in action, but should arrive soon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

) documented. Sinclair was the best, from the ZX81 (In my case) through the Spectrum to the QL, all came with excellent manuals. Just my £0.02. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

when the Raspberry Pi project decided to drop the idea of commissioning a tutorial and technical manual to go with the device. Bad news! And kind of defeats the purpose of the Pi - to encourage the bedroom coder habit! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] S*BASIC

Evening all, I _think_ that the term was first used by Norman Dunbar to refer to either SuperBASIC or SBASIC, but don't know in what context it was used. Did I? I was first (as far as I remember) to use the term QDOSMSQ but S*Basic wasn't one of mine - I don't think. No doubt Norman

Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

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Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

On 08/11/11 20:24, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Geoff, I believe you already have something from me that was held over from the last issue? I certainly hope so. Could have sworn I sent that to Geoff and not to the list. Oh well, my secrets are out - if I have any! ;-) Cheers, Norm. PS

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2/QPCPrint translates

routine that reads the input, translates it and writes to the output, the output being the printer device or a channel opened to it via QPCPrint? Good luck. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire

Re: [Ql-Users] QaLendar 2012

please and I'll give it a try - there isn't one on the web-site (that I can see - and I looked!) at the moemnt. Thanks. I'm thinking that maybe Office can't do docx-doc transformations very well! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House

Re: [Ql-Users] n00b alert an introduction of sorts

John (in Wales) (Anyone seen a Higgs boson hereabouts toady (!)?) I was sure I saw one, around 126 GeV. I could have been mistaken though. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote: The QL Today team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a quick proofread. Is now a bad time to mention some errors then? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

of used ink. Very, very, very mucky indeed! However, it did solve the riddle of where all the ink went! Happy 2010 everyone. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

everyone. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

as it never printed from then on. I did not feel at all guilty about the stain! Nice! I have to admit to being quite amazed at how much sponge could be fitted inside a pretty small printer casing - and just how much ink it could hold. Yuk! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - was QL compatible Printers

On 03/01/12 16:35, Bryan Horstmann wrote: I see that Raspberrypi are putting the first 10 boards on ebay. They have done this to raise money for the charity. Have you checked the prices yet? Board number 10, the first one to go on eBay, is over £2000 already. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] eBooks

. Most worked fine. Then my colleagues at work bought me a Kindle when I left - and that does read mobi format - so I use that instead! http://calibre-ebook.com/ is where you need to be. Happy to help if you have problems. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Ql-Users] eBooks

Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

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Re: [Ql-Users] Test

which meant that we should have failed! Eventually, I wore him down and he agreed that I was correct. Sometimes, I wonder if my mother and father were married at the time of my conception! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please

. Mint is, in my opinion, highly suitable for Linux beginners as it just works out of the box - in fact, I suspect most of Dilwyn's PC problems would vanish overnight if he switched. Grins, ducks and runs Have fun. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Ql-Users] Wherefore art thou, SMSQ?

in the inbuilt list) and anything higher than that address is an extra? It could work? Maybe? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB 2.0 Drivers Released + Ser-USB End of Life Announcement

, etc for the project - provided it's Open Source. That way, you can control what is in it. There would be less chance for various versions dotted about all over the place that way. Just a thought. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.

me think that the following is a non-loop: FOR x = 10 TO 0 STEP -1 NEXT x I think it should read If the WHILE expression evaluates to zero, or the current value is equal to the TO value, on entry Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

into the wilds went well. Interest was so great that both Farnell's and RS discovered an effective DDOS attack on their servers this morning. The tinkerers are taking over again! I've got my order in - I missed the first 100,000 even at 06:25 this AM. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

exactly all of the previous mistakes that industry first followed. Have they mirrored or have they been pushed in that direction by politicians and other do-gooders with an agenda? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

predecessors if we never learn. And yes, we are cynical, with good reason I'm afraid! ;-) Hope you get your Pi soon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

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Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

after the readers had decided not to purchase. (As noted in Dilwyn's dRant!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

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Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi Power Source

charger. The 700 mA assumes high power attachments etc connected to the Pi. You can use a full sized usb jobby and a usb-mini adaptor. It's all on the web site. You supply a USB keyboard, USB mouse, Mini-USB power supply and a TV of HDMI TV/Monitor. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] UK Postal Increases

, it should be dropping its prices. Not pricing people away. Just my £0.02. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] UK Postal Increases

, that was s bad, it came out the the other side as good! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

[Ql-Users] Jan Jones

There was talk on this list some time ago, about someone converting the Jan Jones SuperBasic book to pdf. (Was it Dave Park?) I was wondering if any progress had been made? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] Quill

. However that's simply because I don't have any of these files. If you have any that you are able to send me, privately, then I'll take a look and see what I can do. HTH Cheers, Norm. PS. Privately = norman (at) dunbar-it (dot) co (dot) uk. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

... Who knows, I might find time to do something with it myself .. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

3G and they foot the bill. Service! On my laptop I have Calibre. Ask Dilwyn how good that is! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

and maybe turn them against what we were trying to do, so I dropped it. Dave Ok, thanks Dave. Maybe one day Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

[Ql-Users] Anyone know what this is for ....

! Does anyone know? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] Anyone know what this is for ....

On 29/03/12 14:02, Norman Dunbar wrote: I *think* it could be italics on/off, but I'm not sure and could be making it up! That wasn't a bad guess, thanks to Dilwyn I can confirm that code 19 aka Hex(13) is indeed an italics toggle control code. Thanks all. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

copyright holder. Now, given my limited legal qualifications - I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV either - but it sounds to me that we can get permission from Quanta or Jan Jones? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

Morning John, ... My memory is not too clear on the second reprint as I was not involved. I think the Quanta committee paid someone to do a limited number of photocopied versions. The quality was abominable. I think I've got one of those then! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Qstripper updated - now handles PC Quill files.

the version number, so you know what you are downloading. This might affect the links on your (Dilwyn's) web site. Apologies for the inconvenience. Other than that Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

for this stuff nowadays? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

. Works perfectly on QPC. Although my libguide is very old! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

library. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

On 13/04/12 16:01, Rich Mellor wrote: I have just checked - it works on Q-emulator with Minerva, but not with a JS ROM for some reason Hmmm. I developed it on a JS ROM, all those years ago! I've just checked in QPC, VER$ says HBA - so not a JS ROM here then. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

be/is in the DBAS library or Q-Emulator I think, especially as it opens fine in other ROMs. Difficult one to solve I think. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

for SMSQ/e of course! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

#includes a file from C68 named ansi_h but I don't see that file any more. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

as everyone, JS fails. One thing is exceedingly clear, we didn't half put up with really slow responses back in 1984 didn't we? God it's slow in QL mode! ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

. One thing is exceedingly clear, we didn't half put up with really slow responses back in 1984 didn't we? God it's slow in QL mode! ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

[Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

some work on this program and being completely unable! Maybe I'll have to rewrite it in assembler for the PE! (I jest by the way!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

that large. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: 16 April 2012 16:08 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide Sorry, I've pulled this one out from the query discussion, maybe Dave Walker

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

On 17/04/12 10:46, Norman Dunbar wrote: The compilation worked, but listed calls to strfnd as having the wrong number of arguments. I had three, as per online references, but it seems the definition in string_h only has two : strfnd(const char *, const char *) So, I fixed my code to remove

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

On 17/04/12 20:33, John Alexander wrote: My RPi arrived yesterday ;) I don't know you personally John, but I think I hate you already! ;-) Have fun with your Pi. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

this, I'll be elbow deep is fish poo! Today is the day I get to clean out the filters on the Koi pond. For such a few fish, they certainly crap a lot! :-( -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

coding paths to perl, or python, or shells etc by hard coding the path to env instead - but I rather suspect that env *is* in a standard location. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

On 21/04/12 09:35, Norman Dunbar wrote: Python is pretty nifty in it's ability to coerce variables Oh no! The apostrophe! How did it get there? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

they advise sticking with 2,x as there are more programs compatible with that version. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

will not be there. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

Beta. I may install an older version to see what's going on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

call shows that every dbas routine, that I tested, seems to reset my oserr to 0 if it worked. Sigh. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

[Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

depth to 130 instead of 2. The word should have been $8002 (aka 32270). So, setting a bonkers shadow depth was the cause of my problem, the shadow was hitting the window limits as I moved the window around while the window itself appeared to be ok. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

On 02/05/12 09:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: It seems that SETW, not the latest version, defines a WORD for the window flag byte and the shadow depth byte. When I typed the above, what I was meaning to say was that SETW combines the two bytes (flag and shadow depth) into a single word

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

. Thanks again. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

[Ql-Users] Bug in WM_ENAME

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Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

On 02/05/12 22:14, Malcolm Cadman wrote: As the great Bob (Marley) sang ... no WMAN no cry . :-) And we all know how Bob Marley likes his donuts? We Jammin. (You started it!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

[Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.04

. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches

flame! It was a big brass thing with a decent reservoir for fuel, taps and pumps, possibly a Primus but I'm not sure. I think he still has it, somewhere! We used to to melt lead for fishing weights. Also melted a few of my mothers old pans, aluminium I think. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

[Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!

Why not? Sourceforge offer me free web sites, a forum, and lots of other stuff like bug trackers etc. I've taken advantage of the web site option and created http://qstripper.sourceforge.net which is a dedicated web site for qStripper. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!

On 10/05/12 23:11, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Now we just need a nice 'icon' to go with name ... :-) Funny you should mention that Malcolm, I've just uploaded one! And it has been incorporated into version 1.05 of the application as well. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05

On 09/05/12 16:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening all, qStripper has been updated to version 1.05. The project web page, which has links to the download pages, has been updated (http://qstripper.sourceforge.net) and there are files online for Linux 64 bit and Windows 32 and 64 bit. You can

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