Guys Thanks for all the replies and especially to Karsten for his helpfulness and generosity.
There are basically only two types of programme I want transferred to CD, some SuperBasic programmes written by me, and some documents created in Quill by me. (There are no commercial programmes) I'm rather hoping that when Karsten has put these files onto CD for me, I'll be able to run the Superbasic programmes and read the Quill documents using a QL emulator on my PC. Does this sound reasonable? All the best Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Extracting QL Programmes from Microdrive to PC > On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 at 01:46:37, Jeremy Taffel wrote: > (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >> >>It is difficult for anyone who hasn't got a copy of the ql version of >>pkzip/unzip to get started . Downloading it isn't much help if you can't >>then transfer it onto microdrive! >> >>I even found myself once in the position of having downloaded a zipped >>version of ql unzip onto my pc and having moved it onto a ql floppy via >>qltools. I still had no way of using it as I couldn't unzip it, except >>by using the PC, but then I'd lose its headers! >:o >> >>I can't remember how I resolved the problem, but if memory serves, I >>eventually discovered that you don't actually need the headers. There >>are ways of manually reserving space; If you don't know how much a >>program requires, just reserve a healthy amount; suck and see. >> >>But Ben, my advice is to take advantage of Karsten's generous offer to >>do the copying for you, and avoid the minefields!. > Yes indeed! > > There was a well established way to do it, via my BBS. > > I have a coded unzip_exe_hdr program which is coded with the header in > the file. qdos_hdr_bas then restores the header. > > ... but far better to leave the job to Karsten (8-)# > > Tony > -- > QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 > tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk > Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman > TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
