Having been inspired to fire up my copy of QL2K and play with
Dilwyn's Snowfall program, and the FizzBuzz suggestions, I visited
his website at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/ and thought I'd try out some
other programs.
Firstly I need a working unzip program that preserves the file
headers & dataspace. Unfortunately
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/arch/unzip541xq.bin just gives me a "bad
parameter" error after I type in the device at the first prompt.
Does anyone know if unzip541xq.bin works with QL2K, and if so how?
I have never been able to get the SFX (SelfExtract) routine to work on
QL2K.
Alternatively, is there another way of getting an unzip program to
work on QL2K?
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Regards,
Stephen
Yes. Try this, I've just run it to make sure it works.
Place a copy of QL unzip in QL2K's WIN1_ folder in Windows. Unzip it
with a Windows zip if you wish. Don't worry about losing the
dataspace/executable header - QDOS Unzip has something called an XTcc
field, which will a;llow QLAYT to recover the dataspace.
Assuming you have QLAYT program (not the qltoolsq program, that's for
floppies) in QL2K's WIN1_ folder in Windows:
Start a DOS (cmd) box. Navigate to the QL2K WIN1_ folder with CD
commands in the Windows DOS box.
Issue the DOS command:
QLAYT -i Unzip -X
(note: lower case -i, upper case -X)
This appends Unzip to the qlay.dir directory and recovers the
dataspace from the XTcc field. That's it - when you start QL2K you
should now have a working Unzip in QL2K.
(Thanks to QLToday's article in Vol 12 issue 2 by David Denham - very
useful article for QLay users, mostly valid for QL2K too, taught me a
lot about qltoolsq and qlayt)
Would be great if someone could adapt a FLP driver to add to QL2K,
e.g. QDOS classic drivers or something like that. QL2K is fine as an
emulator, but the file transfer difficulties puts a lot of people off.
Dilwyn Jones
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