RE: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I don't run M$ mail programs - that is the reason I don't spread them! At work, I have no option - Outlook

RE: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
-Original Message- From: Dave Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 6:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers I would be more than happy to make the DiscOVER sources available Nice one Dave, I'd like to see the sources

Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Collection

2001-06-27 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 21:15:15, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) At 12:02 AM 6/28/2001 -0500, you wrote: Maybe Simon (N) Goodwin or Chas Dillon can shed some light into this? They should know the status. I believe that most of the programs had a time clause to them and are now owned by

[ql-users] Digital Precision collection

2001-06-27 Thread DARREN BRANAGH 6798433
Hi All, I would concur with Tony - Freddy would certainly sue, all depends on if he still actually owns the copyright or not, or they were indeed time limited and have reverted to Simon et al as the authors. Simon doesn't subscribe to this list, but I have forwarded this email to him for

RE: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
Ahem, I *think I understood that :o) Norman. Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database/Unix administrator Phone: 0113 289 6265 Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. Fax:0113 201 7265

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Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:42:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest accessing unsupported filesystems by reading the device as a stream, but seem to recall trying something similar in the past and finding that because the partition it represents is a fixed size (and

Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision collection

2001-06-27 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 10:16 ðì 27/6/2001 +, you wrote: Hi All, I would concur with Tony - Freddy would certainly sue, all depends on if he still actually owns the copyright or not, or they were indeed time limited and have reverted to Simon et al as the authors. Simon doesn't subscribe to this list, but I

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Q Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !) I don't run M$ mail programs - that

Re: [ql-users] Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread Peter Graf
Nasta wrote: Let's also remember that users that do not have a Q40/60 may also want CD access. Not everyone has (or for that matter can have or wants) Linux on their QL compatible hardware. I think most of us are well aware of this. *If* a plain QDOS/SMSQ CD-recording software gets written,

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Richard Zidlicky wrote: Afaic all publicly known specs about QXL filesystems are scattered through UQLX, qxltool and qxl_fschk sources. I think Gerhard Plavec has also put some information on his Austrian QL site, address available on my 'ql links' page on my website -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL

Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread Q Branch
IAn Interesting discussion this and some very good points raised by all. I see, as usual that Thierry has his finger firmly on the pulse here and is way ahead of most of us. When we discussed CD drivers at Eindhoven last weekend we were suggesting that it be ported to the Qubide and that a

Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread ZN
Well, I hate to be a party breaker, but guess what: all standard CD file systems have a deeper directory structure and/or longer names than the QL is capable of handling with it's 36 character path+name limit. Wrong! ISO9660 is limited to 32 chars in filenames (path name included) and to 8

Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-27 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 10:13 PM 6/27/2001 -0400, Nasta wrote: SCSI is another related example. A SCSI host adapter does nothing of itself, but may have many different devices connected to it, that all require treatment by essentially different drivers. Just to expand on what Nasta said, different drivers (such as