[ql-users] Wristwatch QL/Linux

2001-03-06 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, Not quite new but I found this page which claims that the prototype really runs X11R6 so UQLX would be no problem :) Pitty they didn't include any screenshots of X apps. http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/factsheet.html Let me know if you get hold of such a thing. Bye Richard

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, here is my rant on the subject. Sorry Malcolm, but whatever do you mean. FM is a virus that is prevalent in some parts of the world where animal welfare is NOT viewed with the same degree of concern as it is here by public and farmers. sincererly, I was really impressed by the swift

Re: [ql-users] Wristwatch QL/Linux

2001-03-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:16:39PM -, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Not quite new but I found this page which claims that the prototype really runs X11R6 so UQLX would be no problem :) Pitty they didn't include any screenshots of X apps.

Re: [ql-users] New QL website in the making

2001-03-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, You can see a preview of how my QL website will look like at www.ql.50megs.com My site's goal is to gather as much hardware and software resources for the ql as possible. Any material for hosting is welcome (Diagrams, schematics, specs, source code, tutorials, OS specific stuff

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ 2.98-Q40 patch

2001-03-21 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:58:41AM -0800, Timothy Swenson wrote: Can you explain a little more on what the glitch is with SMSQ/E 2.98 on the Q40 and exactly what the patch fixes? it is this nice move.l instruction, anyone who has ever programmed m68k assembler will have similar experiences.

Re: [ql-users] Qliberator SMSQ - problems problems

2001-03-23 Thread Richard Zidlicky
This could be because Qliberator is not able to run under SMSQ properly ; or it could be because QPC2v2 doesn't like Qliberator; or it could be both; or it could be me being a complete idiot :o( ;or something else altogether but . Start QPC2v2 and from a clean boot, (800 by 600

Re: [ql-users] Qliberator SMSQ - problems problems

2001-03-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:34:50AM -0500, ZN wrote: On 3/24/01 at 2:13 PM Richard Zidlicky wrote: Well, I was told that code and data accesses should actually ignore the top three bits (29, 30, 31). In other words, any combination of bits 29, 30, 31, should effectively act as if those

Re: [ql-users] New Hyper Browse release

2001-03-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Arnould Nazarian wrote: : As CSS1/CSS2/XSL are unlikely to be : implemented, does this effect your decision? I don't even know what this is cascaded style sheets? Just a guess. : Independent of the cost : question, how do you feel about open

Re: [ql-users] Phantom black con channel in QLiberated programs - SOLVED !

2001-03-30 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On 29 Mar 2001, at 13:27, Norman Dunbar wrote: What to do to avoid a phantom : 1. Compile with windows copied. 2. Open #0 or #1 before calling scr_xlim/scr_ylim I suspect therefore that scr_xlim/scr_ylim look for channel #0 first and if found use it. If #0 not found, then

[ql-users] MS does it again

2001-04-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, I vote for blocking all emails to and from any MS related sites (including eg hotmail) to this (and ql-developers) list. Otherwise developers will no longer be able to use this as a forum. http://www.troubleshooters.com/passport/ Bye Richard

Re: [ql-users] MS does it again

2001-04-12 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:50:44AM -0400, Andrew Halliwell wrote: Hi, I vote for blocking all emails to and from any MS related sites (including eg hotmail) to this (and ql-developers) list. Otherwise developers will no longer be able to use this as a forum. I seriously doubt

Re: [ql-users] Change of address

2001-04-17 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:08:16AM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote: After about a month of trouble I got rid of my Cable connection which means I will finally be able to concentrate on my pages... For those of you who like me :-) here's my new email address as of tomorrow: mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [ql-users] QLTdis - Help request

2001-04-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hello all, here's an awkward one I've come across in QLTDis for QL Toady - and I've figured it out for myself, but I don't like the solution ! ADDQ = 0101 ddd0 ssxx SUBQ = 0101 ddd1 ssxx Scc = 0101 11xx Where 'ddd' = data and ranges from '000' to '111' 'ss'

Re: [ql-users] Q40 patch And QLiberator Bugs

2001-04-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:52:31PM +0100, Duncan Neithercut wrote: Hi Richard Zidlicky made a patch for MMU and Qlib problems for SMSQ/E 2.98 on Q40. Having used it I have found 3 things - the Qliberator compiler now works compiles on my Q40 - at last - many thanks Richard. - ProWesS does

Re: [ql-users] Q-emuLator

2001-04-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:22:36AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Some server restrict the delievery of binary files to browser that are displaying a local HTML file (so that they can put some advertising on it) (so that one did not use them to store the mega-big image/zip/mp3, while

Re: [ql-users] QL serial ports

2001-05-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, 8 May 2001 at 12:29:25, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Tue, 8 May 2001 at 12:01:04, you wrote: (ref: 002101c0d7ae$51e94fa0$18a86fd4@o5e1c0) Ian has said - I can't remember the exact name of the book - something like The Indispensable PC Hardware Book or words to

Re: [ql-users] Q40/Q60 in ATX case

2001-05-14 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:58:33AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Wolfgang Lenerz makes some magical things to make me read } On 12 May 2001, at 21:41, Thierry Godefroy wrote: } } I can confirm this as I just acquired a Q60 from Peter } Hey, this is favoritism - can I buy one, too? }

Re: [ql-users] bmp2pic

2001-05-14 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:35:17AM +0100, Norman Dunbar wrote: Isn't that frogs ? Toad tend to be a tad poisonous :o) (especially Cane Toads !) also frogeater sounds much better than toadeater to my ears. But I heard about some tribes (not French iirc) who eat or lick toads for their

Re: [ql-users] Marcus Detwiller - bad emails

2001-05-16 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:20:13PM +0100, Tony Firshman wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2001 at 23:44:41, you wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony Firshman wrote: Is no-one else getting emails from Marcus Detwiller obviously destined for ql-user, but arriving in my inbox. Does anyone

Re: [ql-users] float

2001-05-17 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Richard Zidlicky wrote: Every bug that has been there since 1983 is a feature you can't simply remove ;) As far as SBasic is concerned many oddities in rounding, sign, etc may cause trouble if left out. Yes, I see the point, but there are already several code variants around. QDOS

Re: [ql-users] Re: UK General Election

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:10:24AM +0100, Norman Dunbar wrote: -Original Message- From: Malcolm Cadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: UK General Election Thanks ... this will make it more fun following the current election too. Excuse me Malcolm,

Re: [ql-users] sb2htm

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Zidlicky
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 of thing ;) theres also an asm2html (not asm2htm) on the web that does i86

Re: [ql-users] sb2htm

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:09:50AM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote: On May 31, 11:31am, Richard Zidlicky wrote: Subject: Re: [ql-users] sb2htm On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I'm not an assembly writer ... although I will try Perl, some day, when I get

Re: [ql-users] Email and HTML

2001-06-03 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article 018201c0ebb1$fcb06010$[EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ?! --=_NextPart_000_0011_01C0EB87.03E18EC0 Content-Type:

Re: [ql-users] Email and HTML

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:43:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John RawdenSt.Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, UK. Tel: 0845 458 1126/7 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running Linux on a Q40 I get the following message displayed, I am using Pine, any suggestions which char. set

Re: [ql-users] Q40 networking status

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:09:41PM +0200, Peter Graf wrote: Ian wrote: It would be good to have Pine Lynx running in SMSQ. What is the current status of TCP/IP and PPP project, and will most NE2000 ISA cards work in a Q40? NE2000 ethernet cards for the Q40 and Q60 should have

Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD

2001-06-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:25:02PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am really looking forward to this. Just imagine: booting 10 seconds, dialing in and getting your emails. Easier than walking to your mail-box. I am tired of booting Linux. What ? ... the

Re: [ql-users] HTML- Mail was QL Emulators CD

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:17:56PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:25:02PM +0100, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am really looking forward to this. Just imagine

Re: [ql-users] A tale of two PCs, and a Q40.

2001-06-18 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:59:59AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning all, Two PCs, not very old, one running Win98 and the other: Linux. I bought a 40Gb disk with the intention of consolidating both OSs into one box, with all the memory, and access to the same set of devices,

Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
SNIP Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$ mailers. SNIP Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few files at random then later on, format your hard

Re: [ql-users] M$ Mailers - WAS Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)

2001-06-24 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:13:23PM +0100, John Hitchcock wrote: As I said earlier in this thread - I'm getting fed up with such thoughtless attacks on everything MS... we aren't exactly an MS fanclub here. Otoh Nobody will bother to comment the quality of MS products as long as they don't

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi there, Well OK, the long struggle is over, I will look at the Atapi tape streamer ??? never seen one of those yet. They have always been Floppy or SCSI. I have installed a Quantum DLT 8000 at work, but that is SCSI 3 and

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:01:02AM +0100, Q Branch wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially now as things build up nicely and I will

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
At 04:52 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: Richard wrote: there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS. Time

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:42:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest accessing unsupported filesystems by reading the device as a stream, but seem to recall trying something similar in the past and finding that because the partition it represents is a fixed size (and

Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-06-28 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:13:41PM -0400, ZN wrote: Well, I hate to be a party breaker, but guess what: all standard CD file systems have a deeper directory structure and/or longer names than the QL is capable of handling with it's 36 character path+name limit. Wrong! ISO9660 is

Re: [ql-users] Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers

2001-07-01 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:06:17AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote: My DiscOVER can already read CD's if it can get direct sector access (it can also handle DOS format hard disks if the same can be done). Unfortunately it appears that none of the current emulators give this level of access to the

Re: [ql-users] Program type Identification

2001-07-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:21:47PM -0400, ZN wrote: On 7/1/01 at 7:15 PM Dilwyn Jones wrote: Executables can be tested via the FTYP function (type 1 is executable) of Toolkit 2. Yes, they could also be identified (and some more interesting info gleaned) from the first couple of bytes,

Re: [ql-users] CD-ROM direct access for Q40/Q60

2001-07-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:59:12PM +0200, Thierry Godefroy wrote: A small progress reports: It works... :-)) great! I now can get direct access to a CD-ROM on my Q60 with: OPEN #3,cdr1_*d2d (for 512 bytes blocks access, or *d4d for 1024, or *d8d for 2048) I assume

Re: [ql-users] re: As things are quiet..

2001-07-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:25:18PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Yes, they are meant to be viewed on a QL. There are several PC to QL file transfer programs available (Discover from Dave Walker running on a QL, WXQT2 and WXQLTool from Jonathan Hudson both running on Windows or Linux systems,

Re: [ql-users] Syquest and Q40 question

2001-07-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:24:16AM -0400, ZN wrote: [snip] I wonder if dual channel IDE controllers are supported on the Q40, if so, that may solve your problem, you could have all the devices hooked up permanently. both SMSQ and Linux support at least 2 IDE controllers, I use 2 of them

Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions

2001-07-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote: After my adventure with the Syquest drive, I thought I would use qxltool and see if I could get my second QWA partition working. I figured I would use qxltool to format the second partition and then see if I can accesses it.

Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions

2001-07-11 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:37:00PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote: At 12:10 AM 7/11/2001 +0200, Richard Z. wrote: I have reformated my /dev/hda2 today with qxltool -W /dev/hda2 0 xx xx xx and it worked perfectly. I tried it using 256 instead of the 0 (since it's 256 MB partition). That

Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions

2001-07-12 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:46:09AM +0100, Derek Stewart wrote: The Q40 SMSQ/E does not say that anthing other than WIN1_ can be used with the WIN_FORMAT command. But if you enter WIN_FORMAT 1 and try FORMAT WIN2_, you get a Access Denied error message. So the correct syntx for

Re: [ql-users] qxltool and multipartitions

2001-07-12 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:06:19PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote: But in mucking with my system, I seem to have totally blown all partitions (even Linux). All I did was disconnect the HD and run a bit with just the Syquest attached. Is it OK to run with just a Slave IDE device and no

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:37:50PM +0200, P Witte wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60. The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea, anyone? When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt wakes it up again,

Re: [ql-users] Re: SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:57:17PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Richard Zidlicky wrote: uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured in spinup cycles, not hours of idle operation. Modern drives will have

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E HDD

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:39:22PM +0200, Peter Graf wrote: Per wrote: I would probably have followed a similar policy. However, I do it for the silence. Admittedly it is not ideal. A 128 Mb flash disk would be nice ;) If you're willing to use something not 100% tested, I could provide

Re: [ql-users] Spam

2001-07-30 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:44:46PM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote: The best solution would be to use a better mailing list package. Majordomo doesn't make temporary absences easy to cope with from the subscriber's POV - you have to unsubscribe. Most of the mailing lists I use a lot are

Re: [ql-users] more IDE for Q40

2001-08-01 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:13:46AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote: I have found at a local store two (!) different ISA card that would provide additional IDE drives for my Q40. (ISA is really becoming hard to find !) But before I buy one of them, is there something particular I should

Re: [ql-users] more IDE for Q40

2001-08-01 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Richard Zidlicky wrote: The price is about 260 FF ( that 25 £, or 40 Ecus/Euros). Is-it normal price, or can any of the dealer provide me with a cheaper and warranted solution seems like a good price. Also the relatively low

Re: [ql-users] Virus

2001-08-01 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:19:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...(although Ian Pine does that to me via the mailing list each time). Unfortunately this is not something I have any control over. Our company email system adds the text attachment to all outgoing emails after we've hit

Re: [ql-users] Why me

2001-12-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:51:49AM +, Tony Firshman wrote: W98 died at the first sign of problems - blue screen saying cannot read from drive C - and that was it. W98 never even started to load from then on. Under Linux, things continued apparently normally for a very long time. The

Re: [ql-users] QXL.WIN - format details

2001-12-30 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:08:18AM +0100, Urs König wrote: Does anybody know what sector per cluster gives the best performance in a QXL.WIN File? respectively what if at all the user can control in this aspect? SMSQ has a maximum of 65535 clusters per filesystem it can address. Iirc it will

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:16:42PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: The reason why we don't emphasize the slots are the current lack of QL software drivers for anything but IDE, FLP, SER, PAR. The only thing I can see missing from that list that I consider important is ethernet. We have

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:22:34AM -0500, ZN wrote: Actually, the biggest problem with the 68k family is that Mot. does not want to sell the licence to anyone else, so that even FPGA cores that implement the same instruction set are, strictly speaking, illegal. Besides, there are compatible

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - The continuing Saga... Part 9.8E13 ;-)

2002-01-05 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:58:08PM +, Dexter wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter Graf wrote: PCI instead of ISA on Q40/Q60 would give you: *No* expandability under QDOS/SMS at all. Peter, thanks for explaining where the problem lies... Could you just fill things out a little

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - The continuing Saga... Part 9.8E13 ;-)

2002-01-06 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:32:14AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: the problems are QDOS specific: - drivers can be practically written only in assembler, True, but as far as I am concerned (I don't want to restart the assembler vs C flame war), this is not a problem but a GOOD THING !

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part 1E120 (I had to increment it ! ;-)

2002-01-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:38:48PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: maximum name length (including directory path) 36 chars I already explained on this list how to circumvent this problem under SMSQ/E. In fact, with my trick, you can use up to 32765 characters (QDOS string

Re: [ql-users] Patching SMSQ Mouse routines

2002-01-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:35:12PM -, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: What, the driver? Not really. Wrong question... what I meant is... is it read (the status of the mouse) at the same addresses as QIMI ? Certainly, if you're using a QIMI interface. But not on QPC,

Re: [ql-users] Patching SMSQ Mouse routines

2002-01-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Hmmm another undocumented feature... nothing in the SMS reference manual :-) Or at least I didn't see it. Thanks Richard it is documented (like any other undocumented feature) in Hans-Peter Recktenwalds Programmieren in

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

2002-01-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:23:17PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: Hi Claude, Any chance to get USB (for digital still camera for instance, as even fast RS232 is very slow) ? Our QDOS/SMSQ software development shortage practically prohibits to work on USB host hardware. And even the hardware is

Re: [ql-users] Progs.be FTP links

2002-01-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:53PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: Yes, free.fr is EXCELLENT (and I am pretty demanding on the ISP quality); the only grief I got against them is that they do not allow you to setup a telnet (or ssh) account on their servers (therefore I cannot transfer a my

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part 1E121 (I had to increment it ! ;-)

2002-01-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:00:33PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: I don't use the non-directory device driver IOT implement the CDROM device driver (which will indeed be a legal SMSQ/E directory device driver): I use a FAKE non-directory device driver so to intercept the long filename,

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part 1E121 (I had to increment it ! ;-)

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:45:05AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: NOT AT ALL !!! This is perfectly documented: the documentation for the IOSS (see the QDOS/SMS reference manual) DOES says that A0 must stay unchanged or at least be restored if the device driver did not recognize its own

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

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: we have FAT fs support in SMSQ, are you saying it didn't work with the CompactFlash? No, I ain't saying that. Just thought it worked only with floppies. would be worth trying, the code doesn't look like its limited to floppy. I

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

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:25:04AM -0500, ZN wrote: 2) How far does the design move from the GF implementation to an ISA (even if only Q40/60 ISA) implementation. This impacts interrupt line routing and base address selection (which in turn impacts the PnP initialization values), 8/16 bit

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: Also you wouldn't have to remove or disable the IOSSS module (possible according to TT) and at the same time effectively kill the slave blocking mechanism... no block devices no slave blocks ;-) hehe Slave blocks are NOT

Re: [ql-users] Compact Flash Adapters.

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:47:36PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: Also for QPC users a CF could hold either a QXL.WIN file or been seen as a DOSx_ device, (and you get the added bonus of using it for a PC). I don't know if QPC can directly read Q40/60 or QubIDE formatted media but if it

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part: ERROR, arithmetic overflow !

2002-01-13 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:57:31PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: With memory sizes what they are today, we could also just dedicate an amount of memory for slaving only, no need for any overlaps. Overlaps would only happen if the actual RAM was smaller or equal to the maximum slave block

Re: [ql-users] EtherQL project.

2002-01-14 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:01:05AM +, Dexter wrote: Hi again :o) I think it would be really useful to get QLs connected to networks more easily. Therefore, I've commenced the following project: EtherQL. I know nasta has a similar project in late planning stage, but I think Goldfire

Re: [ql-users] Future of QL - Part 1E121 (I had to increment it ! ;-)

2002-01-15 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:16:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 13 Jan 2002, at 19:22, Richard Zidlicky wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:45:05AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote: NOT AT ALL !!! This is perfectly documented: the documentation for the IOSS (see the QDOS/SMS

Re: [ql-users] QCDEZE is great!

2002-01-21 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:19:32AM -0800, Fabrizio Diversi wrote: One question : at this point how difficult will be to write a software to write cd-rw on smsqe ? it might be even easier than reading it, as long as you don't attempt to generate ISO9660 with all bells and whistles. Thierry,

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

2002-01-31 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:04:26PM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: P.S. For QPC2 v. 4.00 ;-) do you plan to access native SMSQ/E or QubIDE partitions??? (Say for QL formatted media like a Zip drive or a. CompactFlash card?) No. No way I can get direct sector

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

2002-02-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Richard Zidlicky wrote: NT/MS having stricter access policy than Unix? Well, I don't know how that's handled by Unix, but on Windows it's The caller must have administrative privileges for the operation to succeed on a hard

Re: [ql-users] qxl.win files

2002-02-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:10:43AM +, Michael Grunditz wrote: Hi Thanks for all help , my serial mouse works perfectly and the q40 runs like a dream. Now , one more question. Is it possible to read qxl.win files on my q40 ? qxltool will read them. Depending on your setup you may

Re: [ql-users] Virus

2002-02-05 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:27:56PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote: One of the superb features is mail routing - which creates a newsgroup like tree based folder for groups such as this. Yes, the tree listing of emails in a newsgroup is amazing to watch ! interesting to read that basic MUA

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SCR-WIN Add.

2002-02-05 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:35:10PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: At 08:12 ìì 1/2/2002 +, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Just to add a little something to my previous announcement, The next version will have also support for RLL

Re: [ql-users] BMP2SCR-WIN Add.

2002-02-05 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:15:35AM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: P.S. We also have one tug-of-war going on with them... I am trying to convince them to compile for m68k (Q40) Linux :-) I can compile it if I get the sources. Oh I know, but it's closed software and that is very very

Re: [ql-users] Virus

2002-02-06 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:48:05PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:27:56PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote: One of the superb features is mail routing - which creates a newsgroup like tree based

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

2002-02-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:14:38AM -, Norman Dunbar wrote: Please don flame proof clothing before reading this !! BEGIN RANT MODE Bye bye then Peter. I think your attitude sucks (to be quite brutally honest) but you have made your choice to go, then so be it. I think your hardware

Re: [ql-users] List etiquette. (Was: ms-users-and-smalltalk-list)

2002-02-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:51:08AM -, Norman Dunbar wrote: -Original Message- From: Phoebus R. Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] List etiquette. (Was: ms-users-and-smalltalk-list) 5. No

Re: [ql-users] List etiquette. (Was: ms-users-and-smalltalk-list)

2002-02-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:48:03PM -, Norman Dunbar wrote: [RZ]If the general consensus (as you claim) is that more than 80% of talk on [RZ]this list should be devoted to some M$ virus nonsense he won't be the last [RZ}one to quit. Well, I never claimed 80%, or indeed any figures,

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

2002-02-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:10:22PM -, Norman Dunbar wrote: -Original Message- From: Richard Zidlicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list [ND] I think your hardware

Re: [ql-users] elf compilers

2002-02-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:07:52PM +, Michael Grunditz wrote: Is there any elf producing compilers for qdos/sms ? elf object code? No. qdos-gcc does exist (see Thierry's webpage) but it produces output for as68 which in turn produces normal SROFF files. It won't be hard to use gas and ld

Re: [ql-users] List etiquette. (Was: ms-users-and-smalltalk-list)

2002-02-09 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:55:53PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 7 Feb 2002, at 16:11, Richard Zidlicky wrote: Btw, out of 821 messages I have (selectively) archived of this group a mere 172 were sent using Outlook. Eudora 262, Turnpike 68, Bat 37, sylpheed 24, Lotus 6, Calypso

Re: [ql-users] CF Cards and Hot-swapable readers.

2002-02-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:40:20AM +, Robert Newson wrote: Stupid question: how is the soft-remapping stored? I only ask as it seems obvious that this has to be constantly re-written each time a sector's physical location changes - or am I thinking too much in terms of disk

Re: [ql-users] elf compilers

2002-02-10 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:45:28AM +, Roy Wood wrote: In message K$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It seems you just stick with the one that you used first. No. I used Turbo but got so fed up with having to rewrite code to cope with its foibles, that I got

[ql-users] QL TCPIP change

2002-02-18 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, I have uploaded a new UQLX version yesterday, among other changes there was an incompatible change in the TCP/IP stack: previously the names of the devices were 'tcp_','udp_','uxs_', 'uxd_','sck_', this has lead to far to many conflicts when programs expected files with similar names so the

[ql-users] UQLX on Mac OS X?

2002-02-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
Hi, anyone here having programing experience with Mac OS X ? Bye Richard

Re: [ql-users] SuperQ Board

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:18:27PM -0500, ZN wrote: On 2/27/02 at 7:50 PM Dave wrote: There were two types of mouse interface... One was a 9 pin serial mouse, and the other was a DIN socket that also used a serial mouse, but I don't have the pinout. I recall most were the 9 pin

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:39:27AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Following the discussions at EIndhoven,here is what has been agreed upon, Tony TEBBY also having agreed to it: In short: Whilst Tony Tebby will retain copyright over the code, anyone may have a copy of the

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:22:53PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 26 Mar 2002, at 12:25, Richard Zidlicky wrote: as far as I could understand the statements I am not sure whether it is allowed to give away SMSQ in binary form (whether or not acompanied by sources), can you please

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

2002-03-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:08:08PM +, Roy Wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes BIG SNIP I DO believe though that potential developers should be able to distribute their builds of SMSQ/E for free if they choose so. (Emphasis on free) because

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

2002-03-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:24:13AM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote: 1. The copyright for SMSQ/E is retained by Tony Tebby (Nothing weird here, just like Linux) 1. There are (currently) two official distributors of LICENSED binaries and ONLY official Distributors can SELL SMSQ/E. 2. The

Re: [ql-users] QPC and SuperHERMES

2002-04-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:09:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 02/04/02 00:05:37 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two problems which I am unable to solve exist (do far), namely Deathstrike and Hoverzone - both of these

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

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:25:46PM +0100, P Witte wrote: Hiall, This is the third virus Ive had from [EMAIL PROTECTED] within the last couple of months. So far I have escaped, but sooner or later someones going to take a hit. to be more precise, someone using the unfortunate email

Re: [ql-users] filter dodger

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:11:32AM +0100, P Witte wrote: was Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Waugh writes: No need for tantrums lads, I think I started this merely by mentioning that I had received a virus twice from the same source, would you rather I had kept quiet

Re: [ql-users] QL Forum

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote: ??? 6/4/2002 3:10:11 ìì, ?/? Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: Qpaintshop Pro Now why would you want a PaintShop Pro clone on the QL...? Paintshop is one of the worse graphics programs I've ever used (and trust me I know my

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:34:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (soundforge) you don't have to, but there is nothing in the copyright statement that would forbid anyone from keeping an inofficial mirror on Sourceforge or wherever. Your paragraph 5 appears to allow that explicitly.

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