Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> The Filter is in effect a partial printer emulator. What you print > from >> Quill, S*Basic, or Easel, etc, via a device (Ser, Par, etc) with or > without >> printer drivers (printer_dat, gprt_dat) is what the Filter responds > to. But >> instead of converting the incoming data into ink on paper, it > converts the >> data stream into an intermediate format which is processed by other > tasks
This is what I mean with "OE cannot produce readable output, no matter how you configure it". It is the only email program daft enough to wrap quoted text. > Having seen reference to named pipes in all this, does that mean this > project will be restricted to SMSQ/E users only? Even so, might be a good incentive to finally do the switch, wouldn't it? > One question: are there any Proforma versions handling GD2 colours, > i.e. any screen dumps for 256 colour and 16-bit colour graphics? Joachim did the Q40 and I adapted it for QPC/QXL driver. There is no Aurora driver. I've looked into it but soon gave up. > Do all programs have a word length counter before the device name or > do some have a byte length one? And any programs known to use a > device name delimited by LF or whatever rather than the internal > format with length word/byte? Remember, the string is supposed to be a device name string that can be recognised by SMS. And SMS needs 2 bytes (1 word) length counter and no LF, so there you are. The program could of course do a runtime conversion into a buffer, but I think this is pretty unlikely. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
