I'd like to request some help with testing a program I've just put on my website.
It's an updated version of a program I wrote back in 1986 (I think). It's one of those ubiquitous MDV to FLP converter to help with moving software from one medium to another. It's not just MDV to FLP, you can replace any string with any other of the same length, so, for example, if moving software from microdrive to a single floppy disk system you could try two passes, one replacing MDV1_ with FLP1_ and the second replacing MDV2_ also with FLP1_. And for help with moving software to hard disk, you can probably replace MDV or FLP with SUB or DEV if the software does not have the ability to reconfigure readily for running from hard disk directories, for example. The reason I need help is that it uses ancient code, and the original was badly written (by me), for example, hard coded references to system variables, compiled with an early DP compiler and other excudses you can think of. I've tried to update it over the last week or so and it SEEMS to run OK on QPC2, implying I may have actually managed to get rid of the bad bits. It will only run on systems with Window Manager version 2 or later, so you'll need either SMSQ/E version 3.00 or later, or a QDOS system with pointer environment version 2.00 or later so that the program can use the System Palette. It's been placed on the File Handling programs page for download, anybody who wanrts to try it can download it from www.dilwyn.uk6.net/files/index.html - make sure you get the right version (the one with my name alongside it) called converter.zip, roughly a 45K download, as there's an old program of the same name by E. Verbeek on the same page. Anybody brave enough to try it, please let me know what system you tried it on, whether it worked or not and what (if any) error messages you get, and thank you in advance! It's been quite a challenge rewriting something this badly written from that era into an equivalent modern GD2 program, so I hope it works! -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
