and bounds.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uk, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm,
http://www.daneprairie.com form WIN2PDF
Thanks, yet you believe it is only for Win 98 and later ?
I am sticking with Win 95 here ... until I have a bigger hard disk
anyway :-)
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tried it on WIN and wondered why it didn't work...)
ZeXcel is a super bit of work for anyone wanting an emulator of the
Spectrum. It is good to look at, it works, and you can configure it for
your own needs ... what else would you require :-)
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, and a discussion about Freddy W is
going on for a long time. It was the friendship that was (and surely is) the
difference between QDOS and Windows. I never felt it was money that keeps
QDOS going.
Feel free to join in too :-)
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In article 004201c15da3$56ff2a20$d3065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
So does my wife (she says over my shoulder)
He .. he .. still spending too much time with the QL then :-)
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He he, how did you guess???
Well, I guess she has taken it all on board
In article 002401c15d25$5a4307c0$a4065cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Doh ! ... who dat Dilwyn fella then :-)
I disclaim all knowledge of him
nudge
So does my wife (she says over my shoulder)
He .. he .. still spending too much time with the QL then :-)
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hasn't.Quill had them from day one.
If anyone knows where he is please let me know
He .. he ... a case for Sherlock Holmes ?
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QLamentry dear Malcolm
Trust you, Bill, to solve the 'Mysterious case of the Vakha' :-)
Dr Watson is writing in his diary
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman
[EMAIL PROTECTED
.Quill had them from day one.
If anyone knows where he is please let me know
He .. he ... a case for Sherlock Holmes ?
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QLamentry dear Malcolm
Trust you, Bill, to solve the 'Mysterious case of the Vakha' :-)
Dr Watson is writing in his diary by the light of a desklamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:-
Shows how quickly you can get out of touch ... :-) ... wasn't Freddy one
of the 'leading lights' in the QL world for some time ?
Yep. Most of the decent software for years was produced by either DP or a
bloke called
for Sherlock Holmes ?
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commercial software I
bought on wafadrive!!
So, what was ( is ) the performance like ... ?
Keep the whole lot as you have a 'collectors' item :-)
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In article 3BD046D3.18653.10B3805@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 17 Oct 2001, at 20:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Also, do not forget that the first microdrives were intended to be only
the start of a whole range of innovative new ways for mass storage.
Clive subsequently
to 15 years ago, is now everyday
technology.
So, the patents for Sinclairs' version of 'wafers' has long since gone
to other companies ?
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In message 007601c1574d$89b19720$d0d8fea9@john, John Hitchcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Nothing more on a Stafford Show then?
John in Wales
PS The new look QUANTA has given me back my eyesight ;)
Unfortunately enforced by lack of content ... ?
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if
people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again
added
designer who worked on the QL project for Sinclair.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Peter Graf wrote:
Tony wrote:
Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to
100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at
the time were simply too large
In message 3BCD4547.6743.1997C9@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 16 Oct 2001, at 22:23, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In English 'objects' or artefacts are seen as being neutral, or
inanimate. However, most English people do attach a gender to objects
... like cars = the 'old
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome
Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read
} He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-)
}
} Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ?
In french, it is masculine.
I do not know for german
users
in general?
Maybe he does ... or even contributes to this user group using a
pseudonym :-)
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the industrial designer who was commissioned for the
task, at the time. It was innovative ...
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* is not heard!!)
C'est la vie is the classical quote.
ObTopic: This post is ON topic, because of the subject line (flaming... :-)
He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-)
Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ?
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keyboard membrane in Geordie?
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http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
Wh lad M Q£ niids a niw Kibuard mimdr!ni - like
Very good, Bill :-)
Away the boat ...
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome
Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read
} Ah ! I think it was just a french problem where magazines looks more an more
} catalogues with lot of advertising and propaganda (guru Bill do this, guru
} Bill
the photo is not too 'flattering', and I will update it.
I hope you enjoyed the 'approved' Acting Coordinator mug shot :-)
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus
Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
At 10:50 ìì 11/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 at 22:06:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hi all,
Apologises for OT subject.
Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 at 22:06:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hi all,
Apologises for OT subject.
Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org
This is a community based organisation that I
had this list polluted recently with Gaelic and
Welsh. There are some other minorities in the world you know!
I could even send my contributions in a Japanese character set just to upset
Malcolm Cadman ;-).
He .. he .. help !!!
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Hi all,
Apologises for OT subject.
Take a look at a new web site :- www.pepyscommunityforum.org
This is a community based organisation that I am involved with ... you
will even find my 'mug shot' in there somewhere :-)
We have designed the web site ourselves, as volunteers.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Ah ! I think it was just a french problem where magazines looks more an more
catalogues with lot of advertising and propaganda (guru Bill do this, guru
Bill thinks that...)
-Message d'origine-
De : Malcolm Cadman
reviews ... I guess it could get interesting again
in the future.
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?
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inconvenienced by this. Somehow my mailer's 'plain text' default was
accidentally changed from -
Western European: ISO [charset=iso-8859-1?]
to
Western European: Windows[charset=Windows-1252 ?]
All OK now ... thanks :-)
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
QL Toady back issues:-
Clip
Never bought any as I've been a subscriber from day one :-))
Are you sure that wasn't the 'day after', day one ... :-)
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:0113 289 3146
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.URL:http://www.Lynx-FS.com
OT - but what if LFS ?
Have you sorted out your ISP ?
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... you even a decent
magazine sent to you.
But, do the research and take your choice ...
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work perfectly with Qubide, Q40, PC. All the disks are
foramatted to Qubide format.
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have the saying - Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man
to
fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Sounds better in the Irish language though!!
So, what is the Irish then ?
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OK ... now I believe that you speak Irish too, as well QL :-)
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file so with a simple rename (to
logow.sys) you can replace Windoze's screen
Please send it to me at my hotmail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
I have an award PC here (not my main one though..)
Coming right up
Forward me a copy too ...
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sure.
Then again there is Tony F's clever power system which allows one switch
for all items ... I believe he calls it 'compswitch'. From memory this
is definitely in 'black' to :-)
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.
4. use Prowess (i.e. use a second hand commercial version).
ProWesS is now available for free, you only need to acknowledge the
licence.
5. Write my own font software.
Better not to ... 'standards' and all that.
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in the Irish language though!!
So, what is the Irish then ?
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:-)
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:-)
Many thanks, and see you all on Sunday!
Oh ... was that you I bumped into :-)
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:-) ... but then Linux is perfect too,
isn't it ? ... :-)
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a lot of current QL users on
the list.
All came through fine on Demon ... thanks for the effort.
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.
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of a *H, after the disc name that does this.
It seems you need to force a HD format.
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guess we all deserve an acronym on this
list :-)
I always thought of you as - Possessing Expert Rigour
And for Norman - who I believe started this, how about ...
Normally On-topic Revealer Machine-code And Nonsense
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[and to get 1.44M disks working -
other than to cover the ID hole and format as 720K which does work]?
Gold Cards are usually no problem with 1.44Mb disks, perhaps there is
something else going on ?
Are you using the correct format command ?
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' character.
. in regexp unescaped means 'any character'
OK ... I get the idea, thanks :-)
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little task that can be used with
any email software and a PC; and free too :-)
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In article 3B6FB7DB.15851.70128@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 6 Aug 2001, at 21:41, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Even these emails are being monitored ...
So why don(t we all adopt the follwoing byline:
Death, terrorists, kill the president, bomb, hoist, FBI
(Let's give
being able
to access the medium via a driver.
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they can/could do ... yet this has implications
for other things too, like the 'freedom' of the net, etc.
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' would like you to do.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adrian
Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Much obliged, and I will not pollute the list further with references to
inferior manufacturers :)
That said, I've got a few other ancient machines of various ilks...
Cheers!
Yes ... we all collect those :-)
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phone, I make chicken soup but does he call, but holidays he tells me
every day.
Very witty, Bill :-) ... tears to my eyes ...
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In article 3B4F4983.4700.1D71103@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 12 Jul 2001, at 19:28, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
WIN_REMV 2 - declares 'WIN2_' to be removeable
or WIN_REMV 2,1
WIN_REMV 2,0 - 'WIN_2' is no longer removeable !
I haven't tried the latter information
' to be removeable
or WIN_REMV 2,1
WIN_REMV 2,0 - 'WIN_2' is no longer removeable !
I haven't tried the latter information about Removeables, myself.
Perhaps someone has ?
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the potential of the CompactFlash is
an interesting outcome now that you are using one with a Q40.
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SuperBasic program that
came with the c68 distribution.
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to put it on !
I am looking out for another one myself :-) ... IDE ... parallel port
... or SCSI.
PS - 135Mb disks also work fine in the 230Mb drive that you have now
got. So, build up a library !
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a hard disk map corruption).
Then you can try DELETE win4_DIR1
Good advice clipped ...
Yes, make sure your 'sub_directory' is empty of files first. It should,
then, delete ...
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, for a copy of some of the items
available. All we ask is for a reasonable donation to the Group, so the
cost per item is not very great.
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... nice idea.
I've got a Compact Flash card in a pocket computer. Nice devices !
Pity that they are not 'hot swapping', though, as you suggest.
Although they are very useful as a permanent second drive :-)
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:-
copy flp1_file.zip to ram1_file_zip
I am forever going around in a triangle between QL PC RISC OS, and
there isn't really that much difference in the file formats.
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format CD.
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having as a Browser.
I would love to run a QL mail program - not least because it would
simplify mailing lists.
That would be nice :o)
It will have to have sensible 'defaults', and easy configuration ... to
be a good example of a mail client :-)
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that applications sell hardware :-)
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sophisticated, easy enough to operate by users.
Adopting sensible 'defaults' is an issue that software developed in this
area for the QL will have to address too.
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or three ?
Mind you, I'd probably be the only one interested :o(
Well, George Gwilt and Dave Gilham are actively working on Turbo
sources, so maybe there is a chance ... and you wouldn't be the only one
interested :-)
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the software is braindamaged.
He .. he .. these virus alerts are boring when you have other
alternatives to M$ ware ...
OT ... I know :-( ... but I recently heard an educationalist say the
pupils were being taught MS Word ... not 'wordprocessing' ( generic ) !
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col_obj now works a treat, too.
Ah ... I am pleased it was a conflict of software on your machine, you
had many of us puzzled as to the nature of the problem.
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come from anywhere I suppose.
As long as it is only Outlook it attacks I don't think too many of us
will be worried :-) ... it is just the HTML it sends out that bothers us
:-)
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a lot of repetition on user groups, as well as suppying good
information.
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of what can be
done with a Q60.
Richard has done 'sterling work' ...
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properly but could be interesting if QPC2v2
worked with High colours.
Anyone with other ideas, or does High colours just not work with SMSQ 2.98
?
Umm ... odd, it is all working for me.
Possibly a graphic card conflict somewhere ... ? ... just guessing.
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or do an item the display is restored.
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more
feartures than the last version.
Good stuff, Geoff !
Looking forward to new data being available.
I notice, overall, that although Labour have kept a majority a lot of
their individual seats have a reduced majority in line with the low
turnout.
Do you have the turnout data ?
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, and quick.
Problems are raised, and solved usually virtually instantly.
The average traffic in up to ten mails a day, sometimes up to twenty.
Which is not at all very high.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Once soql is complete, I daresay we can banish OE and other 2 letter
words from this list.
My understanding is that soql, although not fully complete, is in a
working form. More a matter
Converted: C:\BUFFET\EUDORA\ATTACH\ql-users
Attachments, bah ! %@$*!!# !
With the tolerance of the list subscribers, OE has been 'tamed' since
:-)
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'off topic'.
Now we can all co-operate and enjoy our QDOS/SME systems :-)
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This should complete my experiments with OE.
It is set up to use HTML as the default, which we have to accept is
the way it is.
Even if you select 'plain text' it will post an attachement in HMTL
( as the Help file confirms as being a good idea ! ).
Unwrapping it to plain text as normally
!
=
BE A MILLIONAIRE LIKE OTHERS WITHIN A YEAR!!!
Umm ... shame this one got through :-(
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only' for each recipent
address that you use.
Now I can forgive any OE user for not clearing HTML, M$ have made it
quite hard to do :-( ...
... and I am glad that I am sticking with Turnpike :-)
Snip of good advice on SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
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are easy enough to apply.
Its feature is that is a browser style mailer, rather than a mailer. So
I guess even M$ are right to make HTML the default setting.
Which means its users just have to think things through when they go on
user groups.
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can still think of a couple more excuses for bungling up after
this, but I think I better save them for my own use ;)
I believe that Martin uses Eudora, and not Lookout. So he is probably
not 'guilty' of this :-)
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In article 000401c0e939$8bbc3930$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman writes:
If you find your tastes run to this sort
.
Although, to be truthful it took a long time for a PC to even recognise
a second button, never mind a third :-)
I am mailing this with WIN 3.11, and it is all one button mouse
operations, yet PC 'mice' have two buttons ...
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found its menus quite easy to access
and configure.
Thankfully, Turnpike just takes care of all this in a sensible way.
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'footnote' :-) ... he .. he ... I
must notify 'MailManager' immediately ...
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enormous flight suitcase is definitely out this time :-)
Umm, time to go on a diet, then
Wolfgang
... Yes, the suitcase it just for his sandwiches :-)
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... sounds useful, I will incorporate it into my armoury !
I am already forever converting text files to html, with a rather neat
piece of software of my RISC OS system.
I sure this will prove useful too :-)
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bother
or even realise they have the option ... they just expect the recipent
to take care of what they send out.
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of the following equipment that they could donate
to the London Group ?
VGA monitor, with standard D plug, and power cable ( kettle plug style )
PS2 style mouse
PS2 keyboard
This would complete a useable system.
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no complaints.
We will excuse him for now ... :-) as he is being forced to use
'badware' :-(
Let's hope that your hint is a way around the difficulty ...
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Whatever it is, I don't think it's QPC. SBASIC is very platform
independent. The only thing which is possible is that the SMSQ
floating point functions have a bug whereas the QPC ones haven't.
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