----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P Witte"
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] [RE] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)


>Sadly, they dont appear to be entirely file-compatible with the QL 
>versions,
>so rather pointless to have them..

There was a way of transferring files between Xchange for different systems 
rather like a simple form of RTF. In Quill you could save or load a file via 
F3 F3 (for the second command screen) T for Transfer and then either save or 
load. The extension for transferred files was _qlt.

Has anyone any experience of using it?

I first heard of this some years ago when someone suggested it as a way of 
transferring files from a PC to a QL. It is one of the many things on  my 
"to do" list that has long been forgotten.

If you knew the format of a _qlt file it might be possible to write a filter 
to convert rtf or html files into _qlt and then load them via Quill into any 
QL word processor. IIRC conversion of rtf or html commands into _qlt would 
probably have been fairly simple, but that the main problem was that a _qlt 
file had information about the file size that was only applicable to the 
Psion programs,

Best Wishes,

Geoff 


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