Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 07:19 ðì 31/1/2002 +, you wrote: Don't quote me on this - it's too early in the morning - but I believe that some progress has been made with some winprinters under linux. The problem as I understand it is that unless you are running windows one size definitely does not fit all as the

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Marcel is right... every printer manufacturer does things differently, the point is though that every manufacturer has a uniform way of addressing their models line (no point of reinventing the wheel even for a company the size of Epson), so if we could emulate at least ONE we would be

RE: Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Ian . Pine
PCL5 is a langauge used by many HP printers, and my Lexmark laser has built-in emulation of that, whereas Postscript was an option. I found that Postscript - Ghostscript - HP LaserJet III - printer, worked well (in Linux; haven't tried it on Q40 yet). Ian. -Original Message- From:

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Peter Graf wrote: Reminds my of USB. Not few folks think you just need USB for SMSQ/E and - voila - you can use all USB devices. Probably because Windows comes with all sorts of standard drivers so that many things work out of the box. [Ghostscript] Main drawback is that postscript

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Anthony
Damn, just read Marcels' succint reply.. Tony Gordon

[ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Christopher Cave
In-Reply-To: Hb5f11edd071.1012496760.ln4p1327.ldn.swissbank.com@MHS I still have some printers that are pre-Win, so no problem yet on that score but I would like to know whether the Deskjet range of printers supports PCLn for some n and what emulations (e.g. Epson) they do? Weren't there

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Marcel is right... every printer manufacturer does things differently, the point is though that every manufacturer has a uniform way of addressing their models line (no point of reinventing the wheel even for a company the size of Epson), so if we could emulate at

[ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
After all those printer issues I'm proud to announce the launch of my completely new web appearance. It's address is http://www.kilgus.net/ and it contains all the latest news about QPC. The new pages are easier to maintain and therefore there is a good chance that I really will keep them

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 07:02 ìì 31/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: After all those printer issues I'm proud to announce the launch of my completely new web appearance. It's address is http://www.kilgus.net/ and it contains all the latest news about QPC. The new pages are easier to maintain and therefore there is a good

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 07:41 ìì 31/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: One thing I have to say It was needed :-) I know ;-) Congratulations Marcel :-) Thanks. One little note though. The QPC manual, does or does NOT include the SMSQ/E manual (I have never clarified that). Well, QPC

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Well that would be good if I had gotten a printed SMSQ manual but with NO VERSION of SMSQ/E I had, I got a manual :-( So how can a poor Greek immigrant get an SMSQ/E manual? Well, to my knowledge it should have been supplied with SMSQ/QPC, so I guess asking your

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Derek Stewart
Web site is very nice, not too complex, it delivers all the information necessary. Derek - Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:02 PM Subject: [ql-users] Launch of new web site After all those printer issues

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 07:53 ìì 31/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Well that would be good if I had gotten a printed SMSQ manual but with NO VERSION of SMSQ/E I had, I got a manual :-( So how can a poor Greek immigrant get an SMSQ/E manual? Well, to my knowledge it should have been

[ql-users] Qubide hard disk structure

2002-01-31 Thread Derek Stewart
Does any one know the Qubide hard disk structure Derek - Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site At 07:53 ìì 31/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R.

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: P.S. For QPC2 v. 4.00 ;-) do you plan to access native SMSQ/E or QubIDE partitions??? (Say for QL formatted media like a Zip drive or a. CompactFlash card?) No. No way I can get direct sector access under NT/2000/XP (unless running QPC with administrator

Re: [ql-users] nenscript - Postscript file format creator

2002-01-31 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:48 PM In-Reply-To: Hb5f11edd071.1012496760.ln4p1327.ldn.swissbank.com@MHS I still have some printers that are pre-Win, so no problem yet on that score but I would like to know

Re: [ql-users]OT: Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Oh I forgot were did you dug up (sic!) Grave Digger ??? Good German band, released a very epic album about the wars between the English and the Scottish (Tunes of war). The The clans are marching song of it came on TV once (when there was still metal on TV...) and I

Re: [ql-users]OT: Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 08:34 ìì 31/1/2002 +0100, you wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Oh I forgot were did you dug up (sic!) Grave Digger ??? Good German band, released a very epic album about the wars between the English and the Scottish (Tunes of war). The The clans are marching song of it came on TV once

[ql-users] BMP2SCR Windows

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Hi all, After lots of trial and error (Mainly because I had to relearn binary arithmetic ;-) My BMP2SCR-Win program is updated to official version 1.1 New features. SCR files Mode 32 and 33 selectable (or both with auto renaming of the filenames) (Many thanks to Claus Graf, Wolfgang Lenerz,

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:04:26PM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: P.S. For QPC2 v. 4.00 ;-) do you plan to access native SMSQ/E or QubIDE partitions??? (Say for QL formatted media like a Zip drive or a. CompactFlash card?) No. No way I can get direct sector

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Richard Zidlicky wrote: NT/MS having stricter access policy than Unix? Well, I don't know how that's handled by Unix, but on Windows it's The caller must have administrative privileges for the operation to succeed on a hard disk drive. I don't quite believe, there must be a simple way to

Re: [ql-users]OT: Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Nice rock indeed. Which one of the guys on the cover is you? Well thanks :-) Guess guess ;-) hehe Well if that helps I am sitting :-) This narrows down the choice a bit ;) Haha maybe you should start writing a Windows Emulator for the Q60... that way you'll get once

Re: [ql-users] Launch of new web site

2002-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Not really IMHO Richard is right, else it would be impossible for programs like FAT324NT or Tiramisu to work... I don't know what Tiramisu is, but FAT32 for NT is no program but a kernel driver. Of course drivers can get direct access, how else should the NTFS driver

[ql-users] BMP2SCR-WIN Add.

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Just to add a little something to my previous announcement, The next version will have also support for RLL encoded BMPs... and auto select of conversion method according to colour depth (currently the code supports only 24 bit colour) Also in the works right now (I'll get to the fonts too but

[ql-users] Replacing S*Basic procedures

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
I was wondering if there was a way to change or enhance standard S*Basic commands. (Vbasic for example allows you to redefine 90% of its commands) I'm pretty sure that this is impossible from Basic but what about machine code... for example instead of writing an x_Print x,w,z,d,s command,

Re: [ql-users] Replacing S*Basic procedures

2002-01-31 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 11:48 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, you wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to change or enhance standard S*Basic commands. I'm pretty sure that this is impossible from Basic but what about machine code... for example instead of writing an x_Print x,w,z,d,s command, redefine the standard Print

Re: [ql-users] Replacing S*Basic procedures

2002-01-31 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
At 08:56 ìì 31/1/2002 -0800, you wrote: At 11:48 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, you wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to change or enhance standard S*Basic commands. I'm pretty sure that this is impossible from Basic but what about machine code... for example instead of writing an x_Print

[ql-users] Traffic

2002-01-31 Thread Anthony
Well, first time ever, this group is my largest mail download beating even my argumentative Linux group!!! Tony Gordon

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SCR-WIN Add.

2002-01-31 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Phoebus R. Dokos makes some magical things to make me read } A BGIMAGE type of command, with the difference that it will be able to } display on screen and at the point we want RLL encoded BMP files at all } colour depths (if it is 24bit of course it will be slow :-)) If it is for displaying