Good point! I will create a floppy disk image that can be written on the PC to QL format standards and add that to my web page. That should solve the boot-strap problem.
There is also some software (cannot remember the name off-hand) that can be run on a PC to handle QDOS format floppy disks. Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Usher Sent: 09 February 2007 10:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Example ZIP needed >If you want the facility to write to PC format disks on a standard QL, then >try using my DiscOVER software that can be downloaded from my web page at >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/download.htm Of course, there is a bootstrap problem here... how do you get the file you've downloaded from the net over to the QL if the QL can't read IBM format floppy disks? :-) QL-Kermit never did work very well and unless you're running Linux on your PC (and assuming that the PC has a serial port, which many don't these days) it's going to be difficult to get a Kermit server working. (Even under Linux I'm not sure C-Kermit will compile anymore.) >If you are using SMSQ/E, then this is unnecessary as SMSQ/E supports IBM >format disks directly. > >Makes one think that at the time I wrote this software PC's were still new >and not that common at home! The main use for the IBM format initially was >the Atari ST! Ah, yes... I have one of those in my loft as well. (Along with a couple of BBC-Bs, an RML 380Z and some other living fossils.) Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. _______________________________________________ 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
