Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-20 Thread Geogwilt
In a message dated 05/06/03 03:02:54 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I've read that Quanta published some IEEE-QDOS FP conversion routines in the past (might have been quite some time ago). Does anybody remember this and can scan me a copy? The program FPSAVE which allows an

[ql-users] Jungle Eddi by Talent

2003-06-20 Thread RWAPSoftware
Does anyone have a copy of the file cde_ex from this program - mine is corrupt. Many thanks -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware

Re: [ql-users] Bunsen Banging (WAS is minus one = -1?)

2003-06-20 Thread Dilwyn Jones
John Hitchcock wrote: 7. Enjoy the enormous roof-reaching fountain that followed a spluttering front-tbench burner. 8. Do detention (again!) Note: The method never appeared on exam paper - as far as I know. Pity! I sometimes worry about some of the QLers on this list! Although I used to

Re: [ql-users] Archive/Pipedream

2003-06-20 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Ta, Darren. Rich Mellor has kindly sent me the 1994 version of the Archive/pipedream transfer. IIRC there was one version after that which was a minor update only. Dilwyn Jones OK, that shouldn't be a problem, although I'm not at home again until next Monday - heading west today to see junior,

Re: [ql-users] Jochen and QL Toady

2003-06-20 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Roy Wood wrote: I just put a couple of hundred or so of these into envelopes and never noticed that Never mind, remember how long it took me to notice my old email address was still in there! -- Dilwyn Jones

Re: [ql-users] Attention of Tony Firshman

2003-06-20 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Geoff Wicks wrote: PS for all those chemistry lesson vandals, that sort of thing did not go on at my school, because every boy was expected to behave as a gentleman. However it could have been more to do with the fact that the chemistry master kept a piece of rubber tube concealed in his

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The program FPSAVE which allows an FPU to be used if present (eg on Q40/60) contains the two routines IEEE QDOS fp. I have recently used these but not, to my knowledge, on the tricky -1+0 numbers. I have seen them in FPSP and IIRC they should exhibit the same

Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size

2003-06-20 Thread P Witte
Wolfgang writes: A question: A program uses io.fstrg/iob.fmul to load files in smaller chunks for scanning. The files could be of any size on any media (first of all hard disks). What, theoretically, is the smallest efficient buffer size to use? (Im thinking *speed* here.) Eg 512