Re: [ql-users] more noise

2001-10-24 Thread Roy Wood
] If it did not appear how could we know ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Psion Chess

2001-11-01 Thread Roy Wood
on it. If you can't get this to work I can send you a floppy which will do the job. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QL World The New Userguide

2001-11-13 Thread Roy Wood
issue of QL World in front of me and they said 'Damn we have only another two months to go on the New User Guide' -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QL World The New Userguide

2001-11-14 Thread Roy Wood
of this journal? It has no date but is Volume 3 Issue 4 Odd that because I have another seven volumes of QL Today here. Still they never really got the dating and numbering together did they. It must be summer 93 though. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44

Re: [ql-users] Hove

2001-12-03 Thread Roy Wood
for Sunday March 3rd 2002 in the Portslade Town Hall. (The venue everyone liked last year). My wife and friends will be doing the catering again and hopefully there will be no Foot and Mouth, Bad Weather or bomb scares to keep you all away. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex

Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert

2001-12-06 Thread Roy Wood
this evening) Maybe it does not work for NT or maybe your support team did not look on the Norton site. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert (Slightly OT but a good read none the less !)

2001-12-08 Thread Roy Wood
. The woman I had to visit for the virus deletion quite blithely said ' Oh I got the Love Bug Virus too' some people never learn. The Badtrans thing is doubly duplicitous because there is the attachment and a bit of script hidden in the HTML which will also cause damage. -- Roy Wood Q Branch

Re: [ql-users] Virus Alert

2001-12-08 Thread Roy Wood
text file ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Turbo Configuration

2001-12-14 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes One QLer in East Anglia uses Minerva I2C to heat his incubators. Does it really get that hot ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile

Re: [ql-users] Roy Wood on TOTP?

2001-12-19 Thread Roy Wood
In message 001201c188bf$3ab731e0$a5075cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes No, although 'our' Roy Wood also used to be a singer, then a sound engineer. Besides, the hair on 'Wish it could be Christmas every day' Roy Wood is not long enough to be 'our' Roy Wood. No I am afraid

Re: [ql-users] Happy New Year (and with a BITTER lesson to be lea rned) Love Live QLs

2002-01-03 Thread Roy Wood
you may as well use the one that keeps working longest. The primary problem with all versions of w9x is memory fragmentation and only since I changed to W2K have I been able to throw Memturbo away. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax

Re: [ql-users] A new QL user needs your help :)

2002-01-06 Thread Roy Wood
cards. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Patching SMSQ Mouse routines

2002-01-07 Thread Roy Wood
can wear out one mouse button and have the other one as a spare ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Our Friend Dave again

2002-01-07 Thread Roy Wood
Funny thing though, lots of people like to claim celtic origins, maybe the allure of poetic and literate gifts but I've yet to meet anyone keen to claim to be a Pict - where did they go? All got pict off. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] A new QL user needs your help :)

2002-01-07 Thread Roy Wood
the most modern face to the outside world. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Q40/Q60/??? Ultra IO card

2002-01-11 Thread Roy Wood
into production. I remember some asking if the mock up would work and you replying, well if might if I used a heavy pencil to do the tracks and. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-users] CF Adapters

2002-01-15 Thread Roy Wood
Hi, as I said in the previous mail I would like to order one let me know how to pay. Regards Roy -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Xchange Abacus

2002-01-23 Thread Roy Wood
it to Windows (8-(# You could always try buying a program like QSpread for instance. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 381577 Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] win format

2002-01-28 Thread Roy Wood
when you wrote this ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] win format

2002-01-29 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP As the Chinese would say 'interesting times' ! No - 'Interlesting Tlimes' -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0

Re: [ql-users] win format (OT!!)

2002-01-29 Thread Roy Wood
an email to tell me he had successfully updated his notebook. His message read 'I now have a big hard dik on my laptop' Hmmm -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

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

2002-02-01 Thread Roy Wood
You should talk to Roy Wood about Accept, I think he did their sound on a few tour dates on the continent - In fact, quite a few big german metal bands. He has a list of the ones hes worked with on his website. He was kind enough to get me some T-Shirts and a signed UDO solid album a while ago

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

2002-02-02 Thread Roy Wood
- one with Jane Bam-Bom who featured on the Mirror Man album by David Thomas (Pere Ubu man). Went out and got drunk with Nick on monday which is why this week has not really got together as it should. Sorry this is so off topic. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB

Re: [ql-users] Virus

2002-02-05 Thread Roy Wood
is it the that Linux gets such names like sylpheed, mutt, exmh and balsa :-) ... is there no imagination ? It is used by dyslexics -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list

2002-02-06 Thread Roy Wood
against this because one slip could pass infections to the rest of us. No-one should ever be smug about their level of virus protection or ability to deal with it so, since this is an Internet and email based discussion all, of the mails on this are on topic. Wear blinkers - get run down. -- Roy

Re: [ql-users] elf compilers

2002-02-09 Thread Roy Wood
is not for speed, but for multitasking. SMSQ/E will multitask SBASIC ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

2002-02-20 Thread Roy Wood
Those of you who are coming to the Hove show and want somewhere to stay might try : The Ship Hotel, Hove, 01273 734936 (twin rooms £55.00) The Kingsway 330, 01273413402 (£25.00 per person) Both had rooms available when I checked today. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex

Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-01 Thread Roy Wood
I'm also looking for a 768Kb Trump Card Once again does anyone have one to sell please? I have a Trump Card for you - 1500 pounds Call me if you want it because there is a show ion Sunday and I may sell it otherwise -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade Sussex BN41 2LB UK Tel : +44 (0

Re: [ql-users] OT: music

2002-03-04 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes He had to call himself 'Roy Wierd' professionally to avoid confusion with that Wood (8-)# I mean 'Weird' I think. Actually it was Weard. Explained as an old scots tribe the We 'Ard Clan. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

2002-03-05 Thread Roy Wood
things a bit far perhaps ;-)) LG do a black CD ROM Drive you know. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Hove Workshop

2002-03-06 Thread Roy Wood
them too :-) I actually have one in my PC. 8/4/25 rewriter - lots of bang for the $ 21 pounds + VAT in the UK -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Roy Wood
doesnt have a floppy interface. I have a trump card here you can have for 15 pounds or a couple of old Cumana etc boards you can have for just the postage. I also have some powered drives. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] Q40 people incompatible?

2002-03-21 Thread Roy Wood
but I think they wish to remain anonymous (maybe they would like to speak up too). As I said I do not want these arguments but we should beware of those who would smile to our face as they pour acid into our ear. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Roy Wood
milliseconds off a benchmark is a fairly pointless and boy-racer mentality. Extending SMSQ/E to use the colour drivers better, improve disk access, improve cache handling etc. is of more importance. I look forward to some innovative ideas and a brighter future. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms

2002-03-26 Thread Roy Wood
on this version and, if they have, why will it not run on my Q40 without a massive crash ? Wolfgang confirmed at Eindhoven that this will not work with his Q60 so what is the situation here? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms

2002-03-26 Thread Roy Wood
a time .. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms

2002-03-27 Thread Roy Wood
think you cannot turn off the cache. Either that or some other change is causing the same effect. I would like ProWesS to run with the cache turned on because it is much faster that way but I do need to have ProWesS running. For me this is the most important part of my system. -- Roy Wood Q Branch

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms

2002-03-27 Thread Roy Wood
up for a meal in a foreign country. I have done this for eight years now and Jochen has done it for far longer. If either of us did this for money we would be long gone. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-27 Thread Roy Wood
In message 00e101c1d5ed$82778180$0100a8c0@gamma, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes BIG SNIP I think you just said it all ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E license criticisms

2002-03-27 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP So, buy feel free to buy software and don't worry about your first born child. My first born child is training to be a lawyer ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] Giles Walker

2002-04-02 Thread Roy Wood
. ^ what ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX _jean-louis.dianoux@wanadoo.fr

2002-04-04 Thread Roy Wood
in it - well none the hackers know about. Last time we got into this thread I heard the sound of toys being thrown out of prams and children sulking in their rooms. Careful boys! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New

Re: [ql-users] QL Forum

2002-04-05 Thread Roy Wood
and I get no response. Have you a list of those registered ? -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QL Forum

2002-04-07 Thread Roy Wood
a message on. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr

2002-04-08 Thread Roy Wood
to suggest that Rich Mellor be appointed to take on the task of updating the program. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr

2002-04-10 Thread Roy Wood
they understand: English! I have already done this and I have it here. It is the one I currently use for sale. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QXL-Cards

2002-04-11 Thread Roy Wood
be interested ... Al And with this one it's 3 :-) Bidding's closed :- Amazing I have been trying to sell some for the last year and no one seemed interested. The price I want is now less than I px'd them for. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0

Re: [ql-users] QXL-Cards

2002-04-12 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Roy Wood wrote: Amazing I have been trying to sell some for the last year and no one seemed interested. The price I want is now less than I px'd them for. Roy, I'm after all sorts of 2nd hand odds and ends

Re: [ql-users] Another stupid question.... re Floppies

2002-04-17 Thread Roy Wood
It is all explained in Keith Mitchell's hardware docs. Every other line in the ribbon is an earth. By twisting lines 10 through 13 you are swapping the drive 0 with the drive one signal with the earth line as a pivot. Quite what the PC one does is not clear. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks

Re: [ql-users] ql-chat list.

2002-04-18 Thread Roy Wood
the body of the message_ subscribe ql-chat and follow the instructions. Nothing is off-topic there - general QL pub/meet chatter :o) I will try again and hope to meet someone for a drink. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273

Re: [ql-users] The Next Step...

2002-04-19 Thread Roy Wood
Mellor's SuperBasic Reference manual. Available in the US from AL Boehm I believe. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Wee_Haa... Got a QXL!

2002-04-19 Thread Roy Wood
willing to be corrected. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QeyMail question...

2002-04-23 Thread Roy Wood
and the haystack ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Graham Wall

2002-04-23 Thread Roy Wood
this week and he said he was off to his Spanish home. His PC is down at the moment which is why he called me. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] recursive delete

2002-04-27 Thread Roy Wood
You could also buy a copy of Cueshell which will move, delete or copy whole sub directories. You can, for instance, copy a sub directory and it will re-create any sub directories within the original. Great program -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0

Re: [ql-users] USA 2002 QL Show, 1st June 2002

2002-04-28 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 28/04/02 at 19:08 Marcel Kilgus wrote: Urs König wrote: - What other Europeans are consindering to attend the US QL show? I'm guessing that includes me too :-) I'll be there! Oh great ! It will be good to see you again. -- Roy Wood

Re: [ql-users] recursive delete

2002-04-29 Thread Roy Wood
. And that one had serious problems mainly due to the way that QDOS and SMSQ/E handled thing like MOVE. Beware if you are using it. Rich Mellor knows more about this than I do. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501

Re: [ql-users] memory expansion standard ql

2002-05-01 Thread Roy Wood
cards for sale. Contact me privately -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] ROM versions

2002-05-02 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Don't forget who invented it in the first place though :o) (I suspect, as with all smugness, I shal regret that sentence !) I seem to recall the invention of copper wire - two Scotsmen fighting over a penny. -- Roy Wood Q

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
it all for free. I have nothing against free software and open licences but you cannot expect it as a right. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
in the licence that will guarantee that you will not be run over by a bus - stop being silly. All of this continual bickering and hair splitting is getting needlessly introspective -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
reseller and follow the rules. Give it away for free if you want but pay TT for each one sold. It is that simple. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
development. See my previous comments on that. We are too small a community and have too few software writers for different flavours of SMSQ/E to co-exist. If we have some things that will only run on one version and some that will only run on another we will lose the few users we have left. -- Roy

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
As far as I can tell this was exactly what Peter wanted - what was the problem? He wanted a one off payment and exemption as far as I was told. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
would need to include SMSQ with a new product. DD, and the Goldfire outfit. DD appears to be sidelined out of SMSQ, and if I were selling Goldfires I would be sidelined too, just because of the development hurdles being thrown down before me. No not true. We have sidelined no one. -- Roy Wood Q Branch

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
Oh dear here we go again. I have two proposals for a compromise, that take the commercial needs of Jochen Merz and Roy Wood into account: Proposal 1: Keep the appointed resellers. Make sure that nobody can get their support, without purchasing the binary from them! E.g. this could be done

Re: [ql-users] Documentation

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
adopter. You should really try not to be so smug Peter. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy Wood wrote: Distribution of executables for free was always forbidden. Not true. I refer to the official statement made in public, not to the secrets of your meeting. The fact that it was not forbidden in the beginning

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
that you bought everything that was available for the QL. I did not attack you for that decision a few years ago. Self interest would have meant that Q Branch would have closed two years ago and I would be in bed now instead of answering this arrant nonsense. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
SMSQ, they would be well suited to handling this. Quanta have never contributed to the development of SMSQ/E -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
proposals. Others were not and did not trust you. I have not decision in this. I was asked my opinion and I gave it. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
make it better. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
because they are, by definition, not part of the commercial scene. If they are so against this then they can write their own system and give it away for free. You already said they could do that. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
/E for the last six years. I expect that, even if I stopped selling QL products now I will still get called an emailed and, believe or not, I would still try to help out. I fully believe the same goes for Jochen. Maybe your market forces would produce a shallower trader. -- Roy Wood Q Branch

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
copyright, I believe, so a licence of sorts had to be arranged and it all spread from there. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
have all discussed. The practicalities of someone writing, say, a new file manager with longer filename (oh no, not that again!) and then selling that as a commercial add on are something we want to discuss. We should be able to make this fit both models. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy Wood wrote: CAN WE APPROACH A SOLUTION HERE ??? Note that I said I 'was' in favour. Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. I seriously thought you were interested in a solution. I'm sure all Q40 and Q60 users will appreciate your

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
. And that is what would happen in the case you propose. You are either very mistrustful or like to pick holes in things. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote: This is a different issue. If your non-commercial developers don't want to work under the licence that is their problem, not yours. As a One small point. If ANY developer, commercial, private

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
it, even if it was published unintended. Note the 'other than through the resellers' part of the sentence Peter. He is talking about upgrades as you well know. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-22 Thread Roy Wood
don't want to believe me ask Jochen Merz, ask Tony Firshman. Certainly we should try at any cost to keep this matter out of *this* discussion. No we should not. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-22 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Claus Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 22 May 2002 01:06:31 +0100 Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy Wood wrote: CAN WE APPROACH A SOLUTION HERE ??? Note that I said I 'was' in favour

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals

2002-05-22 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: No we won't. Look. No one has to pay for SMSQ/E twice. If you have a copy of SMSQ/E for your platform then upgrades are free. I feel that many of you think