On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 at 04:11:37, David Tubbs wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
At 16:19 10/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Yes very, all I want to be able to do in an XP PC environment is "sbytes address, length, file"
I cant find any facility in DOS or Windows, no QBASIC
If you are only trying to see parameters stored upon the booting of your
PCThanks for the answer to a request not made. Above was stated what I needed to achieve. I did not wish to burden mailboxes with the full background.Are you surprised? If you ask a vague question then you must expect to get irrelevant advice (8-)#
But it does highlight a fundamental issue in the current discussions on "whither". There are a number of things so simple to perform on SuperBasic, I have felt the loss of QL facilities for years since having to migrate to the PC.I am only guessing, but I suspect there is no such thing as a fixed memory location for general data, as on a QL.We know that the M'Soft environment is hampered to a great extent by retaining backward compatibility, there seems to be heavy pressure to handicap QLetc developments similarly. You really have to let the QLuddites go.
<snip>Did not Miracle founder to a large extent on account of the costs of Brussel's approval ?No. The QXL failed. He overestimated the demand.
There is no requirement to certify for "Brussels". Self-certification is fine, for CE specifically.
Tony
I do have a little comment to make here... Tony did get what David was saying but I did not...
Many British QLers subscribed on this list forget that extremely vague messages may actually make sense to native English speakers but rarely make sense to many people that aren't native speakers (like me for example)... "Whither or Wither ?" (referring to the subject of this message) for example makes NO sense whatsoever to me to begin with... That of course is not the only message that is vague or tries to say something some people may not get... there are even vaguer messages out there... In contrast (and regardless of subject) you will see more messages "to the point" and completely understandable by people that English is not their first (And sometimes not even their second) language. Three examples: Marcel Kilgus, Wolfgang Lenerz and Zeljko Nastasic :-) (Not in that order necessarily and not only them of course...) Their messages ALWAYS make absolute sense even when they use abstract ideas because they cater for everybody ("Anglo"speakers and non-"Anglo" speakers) :-) That's not too much to ask from native speakers is it? Please cater for us too (we are here and probably at a greater ratio as well)
Cheers,
Phoebus
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