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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Progress bar
Sun used a spinner to show work being done. Basically it's a dash
(-) then
a slahs (\) then anther dash, and then the
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From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet there is a lot to consider, such as :
* Workshops are organised by volunteers ... and we are struggling for
active members to support regular meetings, let alone Workshops.
* London and the South-East are big enough
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From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I normally hold the Hove show late Feb or Early March. This year's was
later because of the AGM but, if you want to go for a London show in
January I will move the Hove one to the end of April. Is that OK for
everyone ?
--
In
I was editing a word list for a QTYP dictionary
today and came across the following:
Mispelt word: Microfossil
PC spellchecker correction: Microsoft
Geoff Wicks
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From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
Suggested dates are March 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28, please pick one. Possible
times are 10pm to 5pm.
--
Sorry I can't give any firm suggestions about dates or give a firm
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From: Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
I am afraid the North American group is suffering from the same problems
as the
UK groups. We are lucky that Jochen and Marcel and Roy and in past years
Tony
and Darren like to
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From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
I'd like to suggest that as 2003/4 is the 20th anniversary of the QL,
a big publicity splash be given for one show to celebrate this, in
much the same way as we had QL2000 or
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From: John Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
Well guys, which is it?
The bank Hol will be busy here - there is always an invasion from
the UK then. The following weekend the kids are back to school...
weekend of
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From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
Tarquin Mills
Suggested dates are March 6,7,13,14,20,21,27,28, please pick one.
Possible
times are 10pm to 5pm.
[snip]
Would people prefer a different month?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
QUANTA should fund it - Can anyone from QUANTA make a comment on this? Are
there any of the QUANTA guys still on this list??
I am also beginning to ask this. I have been making
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From: Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM
I have been making increasingly
critical
comments about QUANTA on this list and getting
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] OT
And have just remembered that after talking about missiles etc, I'm
the one writing the program called LAUNCHPAD :-)
Just remember, when SOQL comes out I'll put a feature in Launchpad
that I can
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From: thegilpins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Fw: Quanta Workshop Support
Having been forwarded a couple of your emails (thanks Alex) I thought it
was
time that at least one member of the committee was to field the items
relevant to the committee
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From: thegilpins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fw: Quanta Workshop Support
Having only just joined the ql-users list (Shame! I hear you all shout), I
have missed Roy's offer to contribute to a QL2000 show. Can someone copy
me
the details?
Indeed
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From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] QL2004
I have had a long discussion with Roy Brereton, secretary of Quanta, and
the
outcome is that QL2004 will go ahead.
Highly favoured is October 2004 and the venues under consideration are the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004
I can see that Geoff would prefer a UK show,
Actually Darren you are misquoting me. I have already indicated my
theoretical preference for a continental show. What I doubt is the
practicality.
In any case it
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From: François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004
Hi Geoff,
Sad news. I hope these are only 'Just Words'
François Van Emelen
Thanks for the kind words - I shall miss seeing you.
I decided about 10 days ago to get out of the QL world
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From:
Roy
Brereton
Subject: [ql-users] QL 2004
Eindhoven is a good venue but do we have
organiser/s over there? Some comment would be appreciated, especially from
more of our continental friends.
On another point it will be sad to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004
That's pretty sad - both that you are leaving the QL World, and that you
should feel
such a relief in doing so!
You will be missed!
Care to enlighten us about your reasons?
Wolfgang
As promised, some
Hi Rich,
A couple of points about your
two QWord mailings.
Youmentioned the
difficulty of looking at the source code for EasyPtr to allow it to usethe
newcolours. I think there is another problem. Many of us are grateful for
EasyPtr for providing a simple way to learn pointer programming,
Interesting. Can someone explain why it is that whenever there is a crisis
in the QL community everyone goes into nostalgia mode?
I would be more impressed if more people were looking forwards than
backwards. After all, as Per wrote about my ill chosen timing,
despite all problems, so much
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From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Show management - quantity and quality
No one complains about the UK/EU shows either (except you).
Ahem, I seem to remember a trader starting a long and acrimonious thread on
this list last year by
Thanks for this mailing. I am sorry that no one has replied to it. It is a
businesslike way of thinking and if someone in the UK had written what you
wrote, then I would not have decided to get out of the QL community.
You write that making the QUANTA Magazine bimonthly was a tough decision,
but
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From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Show management - quantity and quality
- and you did not approach me to ask to give a talk at Hove and you had
Q-Word
Funny you should mention that. I emailed the main author of QWord in
February suggesting
I have posted new versions of the two programs on the Just Words! web page.
SOLVIT-PLUS: Version 3 now displays the correct house colours in high colour
mode. (This was particularly ugly in the old version.) Version 2
(non-pointer version) now loads in QPC2 running on an XP machine.
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] RWAP Software / Quantum Leap Software news
Geoff, at one stage I did have a Flemish word list or QTYP dictionary
(I forget which). Would you like a copy of this to add to your range?
I did ask
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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] What printers do
people use with their QL??
Just a quick survey.A lot of people have expressed
an interest in Epson 850 colour stylus printers for their QL.However,
what printers are people
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL
You can assign PAR to a USB printer for example...
ie. I use my LJ 1000 (which is a USB only printer) with QPC.
It is worth reminding everyone
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
Is there a rule of thumb that we should look for in leaflets or web
pages to help decide that a printer works by control codes rather than
pure GDI
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
Regarding printer language the cheapest parallel-equipped printers (that
call themselves winprinters) in reality are not GDI printers anymore (as
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From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
Phoebus R. Dokos (Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò) wrote:
Besides that, in reality EVERY printer can work with the QL with the
following workaround (that has been
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
Hi Phoebus,
Thank for the detailed reply. That's one helluva lot of information to
digest and I will need the time to do it.
Geoff Wicks
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
Geoff Wick wrote:
PS: I am having a little trouble displaying the new QL colours on my
green
monitor (sob). Can anyone help? (burst of
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From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
My solution regarding postscript would also very much solve the
problem for Qxx. SGC is probably too slow or doesn't have enough
memory to run Ghostscript.
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor
Now...should that be license or licence??? Can never remember which is
verb, which is noun :o/
It depends on whether you are American or English. Sorry, can't
Also worth mentioning that we have increased the international possibilities
of QWord. It will be possible to configure the release version to play the
game not only in English, but also Dutch, French and German.
We shall be supplying special accentless dictionaries in the non-English
languages
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Eurocheques
Just a query regarding Eurocheques. Mostly for the traders this one, but
any advice welcome...
Snip
The cheque was for 48 pounds sterling - and nearly half of this would have
gone on charges if I had
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From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Pictures from the QL Show in Italy!
I absolutely second this. Exceptionally well attended and very
professionally done. Geoff, I think you'd have enjoyed this one. There
was an extensive part with a
QL-THESAURUS and STYLE-CHECK are now freeware programs and can be downloaded
from the Just Words! webpage:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/justwords.htm
QL-THESAURUS is version 4.02, which most existing users will now have.
STYLE-CHECK is version 3.01 which is a new version displaying the
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] QL Today - news
If anyone has any news or articles for QL Today, we are now (rather
later than hoped) starting to compile the next issue, so please send
in any material as soon as possible to Jochen or
Happy New Year to everyone.
Sorry to start the New Year on a controversial note, but has anyone else
noted how quiet it has become on the QL2004 front? As far as I know there
has been no mention of it anywhere other than in QL Today for over 4 months.
Nothing at all from QUANTA whom we assumed
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From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004
Hi all,
Yep, it's the 20 th birthday. Congrats all around. I really can't remember
what I did on the fatal day. I do remember, though, typing on a
cardboard
keyboard that was
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From: Dent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Birthday QL 2004
As I said in the QL-Today poll I will do my absolute best to get to either
or evenboth events whether in UK or NL. Would an Internet connection
workshop be of interest?
I'm thinking in
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From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Norwich Workshop
Still on for 6th November, which QL2004 organisers should be reminded.
Talking of QL2004 show(s) have bids closed for the possible UK venue?
I have noted this. Unfortunately we do
Last Sunday I spent about 90 minutes talking to the QUANTA committee. As you
will all know I have been one of QUANTA's most vocal critics during the last
12 months. I attended the meeting at the request of QUANTA and I think it is
to their credit that they are prepared to listen to criticism and
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From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Recent Quanta
Of course, Geoff did not question the reliability of QL Today ... but
it is only down to our readers if QL Today continues by renewing or
not - like Quanta members decide whether
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From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Quanta
An interesting contribution from John, as the secret to QUANTA's future lies
in how you use its income and capital.
Contrary to popular ideas QUANTA is not in financial crisis, but is a very
healthy
I now have a provisional date for the QL2004 Eindhoven show:
Saturday 16th October 2004.
As I have said before, we have very little leeway about alternative dates.
The show calender can get quite busy in the Autumn. Also we get the venue
free of charge. It is a school that other groups
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
SNIP, SNIP
[Geoff Wicks for Quanta chairman or editor if he retires from trading,
now that Robin Barker is stepping down!!!]
er hem, Sorry you are out of order, or rather out of time,
I have now received the dates for all the 2004 Eindhoven shows, so I thought
I would pass then on:
Saturday 27th of March 2004 (regular)
Saturday 12th of June 2004 (regular)
Saturday 16th of October 2004 (Continental QL2004 Show)
Geoff Wicks
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From: Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta
SNIP
I read the bit about Quanta and shows with some disinterest. Given that I
have
to fly 2,000 miles for my nearest QL show, I find it ammusing about all
the
discussion about where, what
suggestions for suitable speakers or other activities
during the day?
Can I suggest that you reply privately (gwicks @ beeb . net) rather than via
this list, preferably within the next couple of weeks? It wopuld help our
discussion at the end of March.
Many thanks in advance,
Geoff Wicks.
Thanks to all the people who have replied to this thread. Nice to know I can
still stir things up! Just a pity that the subject was hijacked into a
discussion on printers although there were one or two other good
suggestions.
Thus a 2nd attempt to get answers.
Let me be more specific why I
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From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
SNIP
I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for software
would
be a good idea.
The reason is that it is, in my mind, too much and too little.
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From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You have said that Quanta is heading towards a £1000 a year structural
profit. I am also interested in how much Quanta has in realisable assets.
The reason I ask, is that as has been pointed out, the pond is now a
puddle
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for
Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP system.
Of course, a small(ish)
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From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an
upgrade to Text 87 and suggested that he could produce a
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