Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Newson
Derek Stewart wrote: What is the difference between a feature and bug... Microsoft Windows has many features. From the glossary of an Apple ][ manual: Feature:- bug as described by the marketing department. (Other gems include: Window:- something out of which you jump when the power

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-13 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Kilgus wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Thanks Laurence. It's in SMSQ/E and a JM ROM on my Aurora, but I haven't tried a Minerva yet. Actually it's not the LRESPR command but the RAM drive which has this feature. All other devices are okay.

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-13 Thread Derek Stewart
What is the difference between a feature and bug... Microsoft Windows has many features. Derek Tony Firshman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Kilgus wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Thanks Laurence. It's in SMSQ/E and a JM ROM on my Aurora, but I haven't

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Actually it's not the LRESPR command but the RAM drive which has this feature. All other devices are okay. Marcel Thank you Marcel - this helps explain why I'd never seen it before and why I had problems reproducing the bug in my program reliably - I was afraid my program may be causing file

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-13 Thread Ralf Reköndt
From: Dilwyn Jones Thank you Marcel - this helps explain why I'd never seen it before and why I had problems reproducing the bug in my program reliably - I was afraid my program may be causing file corruption and so was testing most of the time from ramdisk to avoid risk of corrupting my

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-12 Thread David Tubbs
At 21:56 11/07/2007 +0100, you wrote: With SBYTES you can do something like SBYTES ram1_test,address,0 which creates a not very useful zero length file. But if you try to LBYTES it back with LBYTES ram1_test,address you get the error message 'end of file' Seems more like a statement of fact than

Re: [ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-12 Thread Laurence Reeves
Dilwyn Jones wrote: With SBYTES you can do something like SBYTES ram1_test,address,0 which creates a not very useful zero length file. But if you try to LBYTES it back with LBYTES ram1_test,address you get the error message 'end of file' Seems more like a statement of fact than an

[ql-users] LBYTES

2007-07-11 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Can anyone confirm if this behaviour of LBYTES occurs on a standard QL or only on QPC2 (I only have a QPC2 setup at the moment and too lazy to fetch the QL from the attic) With SBYTES you can do something like SBYTES ram1_test,address,0 which creates a not very useful zero length file. But if