Hello!
recently Wolfgang Mühlegger pointed my attention to the excellent
Keywords/Concepts documents by Martin Head.which can be found on Dylwin's QL
documentation site. I am really VERY enthusiastic about those documents!
This is the first time I find all required information about QL + TK2 +
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From: John Gilpin
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
In my copy there is a preface to the second edition dated 19th July 1989
and
at the foot of that page there is a Copyright Notice
- Original Message -
From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Tim
Why it says Copyright 1989 Quanta I don't know, in fact all the
reprints were dated 1989 as no one amended
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From: john mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users-q-v-d.com@lists.q-v-d.com
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:46:19 + - John Taylor said -
John
You are wrong.
Quanta does not own
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:44:07 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
clip
I stopped it when SMSQ/e was on V.3.00 because of lack of time and
relevant documentation. I can complete it if
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:42:10 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tim,
sorry to mail this here... but did you get my email? If you did, did
you try and answer? My server has a spamfilter and you need to reply to
the first email that the filter will send you to register yourself with
David Tubbs wrote:
At 16:56 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Nice one, danke !
Just spotted 'FLP_STEP' entry is present twice, but I'm guessing the
first one should be read 'FLP_STOP'.
You're welcome.
By the way, is anybody
Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:10:38 +0100,() Jrme Grimbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
If you really want to achieve the same look, you have a long way to go
for the model.
Not really ;-)
There are easier ways as I demonstated to Marcel.
My complete QL Manual stylesheet clone (and almost perfect- it
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene,
because the website is so old that it doesn't even recognize
browsers different from Netscape 3.0 of higher ;-))
Maybe so, but Thierry's website entry addresses have remained the same
since 1996 (which is not
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined paragraph and character styles instead of manual
formatting, no formatting by multiple spaces, empty lines and manual
Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:44:07 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined paragraph and character styles instead of manual
Another option in the SuperBasic book issue, is to write one from
scratch. Wasn't there a series of articles in QL Today on beginning
SuperBasic? If so, we could use that as a start (if the author is
willing) and go from there. Heck, a number of people could be volunteer
to write chapters
Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:29:42 -0800,() Timothy Swenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Another option in the SuperBasic book issue, is to write one from
scratch. Wasn't there a series of articles in QL Today on beginning
SuperBasic? If so, we could use that as a start (if the author is
willing)
Nope, his website has moved here: URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/
This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene, because the
website
is so old that it doesn't even recognize browsers different from Netscape
3.0 of higher ;-))
Wolfgang
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:32:11 +0100,() Wolfgang Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/wrote:
Nope, his website has moved here: URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/
This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene, because
the website
is so old that it doesn't even recognize browsers different from
Rich Mellor wrote:
The problem is deleting or updating old links - there are still
plenty of sites which point at my old website - I try to inform
them and get them updated, but in many cases, it is impossible.
Many of the updates can only be done by Thierry - and he does not
have a lot of
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(BTW-what does the R stand for?)
Phoebe, That is a female version of my name ;-)
Last time I checked I was male (of course the hair... well until
recently
could throw some off track but me and Roy know better don't we Roy?)
:-)
Same problem, for some reason some
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:10:30 -,() Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(BTW-what does the R stand for?)
As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's first
name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more precise,
Phoebus Dokos,
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:11:10 -,() Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Imagine you been called Divad (or Vlade Divac for that matter
;-) -or other obvious anagrams ;-)
Hey, Phoebus, David is rather close to Dafad or Davad in Welsh, which
means
sheep...
Or one could play a little anagram
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(BTW-what does the R stand for?)
As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's
first name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more
precise, Phoebus Dokos, son of Romylus :-)
Hmmm. So my equivalent would be Dilwyn ap Ifor Jones (or ab
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:44:07 -,() Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(BTW-what does the R stand for?)
As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's
first name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more
precise, Phoebus Dokos,
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:59:09 +, David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 20:33 26/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:19 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Why does have to be printed ?
Why wait for Quanta to get butts off chair ?
Just photos, individuals could OCR
At 05:16 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Marcel
Nice one, danke !
Noch eine Dilwyn URL !
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Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:06:15 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
At 05:16 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Marcel
Nice one, danke !
Noch eine Dilwyn URL !
That is partly true. That old URL is something I was working on (and it
David Tubbs wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Nice one, danke !
You're welcome.
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined paragraph and character styles
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:56:10 +0100,() Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Nice one, danke !
You're welcome.
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:19 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Why does have to be printed ?
Why wait for Quanta to get butts off chair ?
Just photos, individuals could OCR as needed, perhaps feed back
At 16:56 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Nice one, danke !
You're welcome.
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
the task of re-formatting that document? And with right I mean
properly defined
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:13:33 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
At 16:56 27/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qpckeywords.zip
Nice one, danke !
You're welcome.
By the way, is anybody who knows how to do text processing right up to
Phoebe, That is a female version of my name ;-)
Last time I checked I was male (of course the hair... well until recently
could throw some off track but me and Roy know better don't we Roy?) :-)
My name has been btw abused so much that I seriously think of reverting
back to the
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:55:43 +, David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
I handed you the route as an implicit suggestion that it and the bum
links might be eliminated
The problem is deleting or updating old links - there are still plenty of
sites which point at my old website - I try
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:55:43 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
snip
Gothcher, hook line and sinker ! My you do go on about it !
You would do if your name was beaten down to a pulp over the years... Of
course the Pheobus spelling has evolved to a Sturat and Ql-Toady but
the rest
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:15:23 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
cut
I handed you the route as an implicit suggestion that it and the bum
links might be eliminated
That would be good if I could actually access that damn account.. it
turns out that I cannot :-( So there's nothing I
At 17:15 27/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Την Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:55:43 +,ο(η) David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε/wrote:
snip
Gothcher, hook line and sinker ! My you do go on about it !
You would do if your name was beaten down to a pulp over the years... Of
course the Pheobus spelling has
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:53:31 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
snip
I tried from there several times recently, tho' now updated !
Not so in Duisburg.
Well Jochen is busy as it is... be glad he does have a website :-). Given
the shows, the schedule, the magazine etc it's a miracle
Why does have to be printed ?
Why wait for Quanta to get butts off chair ?
Just photos, individuals could OCR as needed, perhaps feed back OCR results
for assembling into an HTML document
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Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:19 +,() David Tubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Why does have to be printed ?
Why wait for Quanta to get butts off chair ?
Just photos, individuals could OCR as needed, perhaps feed back OCR
results for assembling into an HTML document
David Tubbs wrote:
My own copy has been lost in removings, I have been looking for something
that would just list basic keywords with syntax. Allwats meant to do it for
myself in a form that one could cutpaste from.
Even visited major resource site http://www.ql.50megs.com/
- no luck yet !
Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:42 -,() hitchies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/wrote:
Re Tim's:
One stumbling block for me was how to do the graphic drawings in
Word.
So,
the project just came to a halt. .
If the problem is simply one of WORD
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Timothy Swenson wrote:
Copyright 1989 Quanta
This is from the Quanta Reprint Limited Edition of July 1989. If Quanta
does not own the copyright, then why did Quanta state that it does, in the
book.
It's a copyright on a different thing to Jan Jones' copyright. She
Tim
Why it says Copyright 1989 Quanta I don't know, in fact all the
reprints were dated 1989 as no one amended it.
The fact remains, copyright is with Jan Jones. If Quanta had bought
the copyright there would have been no need to make repeated payments
to Jan Jones.
In any case I feel this
I notice that Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Friday 17 Dec 2004
20:48:19 -0500, suggested that consideration be given to a further reprint of
QL SuperBASIC by Jan Jones -
Sounds a good idea in principle, and I am quite willing to cause it to be
investigated; but until the likely order
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:28:31 -,() john mason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
I notice that Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Friday 17 Dec
2004 20:48:19 -0500, suggested that consideration be given to a further
reprint of QL SuperBASIC by Jan Jones -
Sounds a good idea in principle, and I am
John
You are wrong.
Quanta does not own the copyright to the Jan Jones book and never has.
The agreement was that Quanta had permission to print additional
copies in return for a royalty based on the number printed and not on
the number sold.
Any other form of publication would require a new
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:46:19 +,() John Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
John
You are wrong.
Quanta does not own the copyright to the Jan Jones book and never has.
The agreement was that Quanta had permission to print additional
copies in return for a royalty based on the number
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:13:31 -0500,() Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
That's what I figured (the copyright matter) however all this doesn't
change the fact that the basis of reprinting on a one-off basis from a
on-demand printer is not feasible.
Of course here I meant : FEASIBLE ;-)
John Mason wrote:
I notice that Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Friday 17
Dec 2004 20:48:19 -0500,
suggested that consideration be given to a further reprint of QL
SuperBASIC by Jan Jones -
Sounds a good idea in principle, and I am quite willing to cause it
to be investigated; but until
Its quite possible that it already exists in Adobe Pagemaker format.
Cheers
Malcolm
Equally we should be realistic about electronic publication. My copy
is an original MgGraw-Hill copy and has 257 pages. That would be a
huge scanning job and an even worse PDF conversion job. Given that
there
Yes that's a better solution.
Steven Moore
Does she have to relinquish copyright at all? All she has to do is to
permit (via a licence of some kind) its publication (eg the GPL
doesn't remove the authors' copyrights; it just allows for
distribution - more than copyright in itself does).
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:48:19 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:30:47 -0800,() Timothy Swenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:28 -, John Gilpin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quanta has just one copy of QL SuperBasic - The Definitive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Sorry, but Quanta don't own the rights to Jan Jones book.
The agreement was that Quanta would be the publisher and we paid Jan
Jones a royalty for each book printed.
We did two print runs whilst I was treasurer and sold all of them.
It would be uneconomic to do another
Hello folks,
Why not ask the author to relinquish copyright and allow it to be
posted, maybe in pdf format. Jan Jones could not have been earning much
royalties from this book recently and future sales will be negligible.
I am a great believer in people releasing software and literature from
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:59:51 +,() Steven Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Hello folks,
Why not ask the author to relinquish copyright and allow it to be
posted, maybe in pdf format. Jan Jones could not have been earning much
royalties from this book recently and future sales will be
It was my impression that when Quanta last printed the book, they owned
the rights. My copy was printed in 1989 and it says quite clearly:
Copyright 1989 Quanta
So, either Quanta does own the rights, or the book I have is wrong.
Either way, I think it would be nice to see it published
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 at 22:18:55, Michael Grunditz wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
MG
I am looking for a good superbasicbook, I am a real beginner at this. If
anyone have some you do not need so mail me.
TF
It just has to be the Jan Jones book.
I haven't a spare copy, but I bet someone
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:28 -, John Gilpin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quanta has just one copy of QL SuperBasic - The Definitive Handbook by
Jan
Jones - Quanta Limited Edition. Published by QUANTA ISBN: 0 07 084784 3
Since Quanta owns the rights to the book, is Quanta going to be doing any
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:30:47 -0800,() Timothy Swenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:28 -, John Gilpin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quanta has just one copy of QL SuperBasic - The Definitive Handbook by
Jan
Jones - Quanta Limited Edition. Published by QUANTA ISBN: 0 07
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:48:19 -0500,() Phoebus Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:30:47 -0800,() Timothy Swenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:28 -, John Gilpin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quanta has just one copy of QL SuperBasic - The Definitive
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich
Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:32:12 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 at 22:18:55, Michael Grunditz wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I am looking for a good superbasicbook, I am a real beginner at this.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 at 22:18:55, Michael Grunditz wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I am looking for a good superbasicbook, I am a real beginner at this. If
anyone have some you do not need so mail me.
It just has to be the Jan
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