On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 06:47, Wolfgang Lenerz via Ql-Users <
ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote:
> Hi Brian, Jan
>
> Strangely enough, I can't reproduce the version problem here.
>
> To be extras sure, I downloaded the version uploaded yesterday and
> tested them of Q68 and QPC.
>
> All files should have the date of 07.02.2020 06:41 and, at least here,
> correctly identify as 3.35.
>
My fault - I copied the SMSQE.bin file to the wrong directory :-/
> > Speaking of the Q68, it appears that the SER_xxxx commands like SER_BUFF
> > etc. still don't work. I discovered some months ago that this is caused
> by
> > an incorrectly named Thing ('ser_prt' while the SBASIC commands search
> for
> > 'ser_par_prt'). I'm not sure whether I've reported it here (I did so in
> the
> > QL forum but Wolfgang doesn't read that).
>
> I don't remember seeing it, but thanks - that'll be fixed in a new version.
>
Thanks in advance.
> So far I haven't been able to fix
> > this myself as SMSQMake stops with an 'invalid name' error at line 11330
> > when I try to build it.
>
> Load the menu extensions first, then it will work. I'll probably remove
> that anyway, but I'll have to check first if I use other parts of the
> menu extensions.
>
Okay, it assembles well now, thanks.
> > Another issue I've run into is the TCP device which, unlike UQLX, doesn't
> > report EOF when the other end has closed the connection, you'll just keep
> > waiting forever for input. (Yes, I've been doing a few networking
> > experiments lately, you'll see the results soon :-) ).
> >
>
> On what machine? (I presume SMSQmulator and will check).
>
It definitely does on QPC2 but I remember SMSQmulator had the same problem.
> > Well so far for the bug reports, thank you Wolfgang for keeping SMSQ/E
> > alive!
>
> Luckily enough, I'm not alone in that. Simply building SMSQ/E is now a
> fairly well automated process (SMSQEMake - when it works...) and making
> all of the new version files is, too - see the file "new_versions_bas"
> in the extra directory - it even makes the html files.... (I once even
> had the idea of building an ftp client, so that the upload to my site
> could be made automatically, but never actually started that,the main
> reason being that I know next to nothing about networking, let alone the
> ftp protocol).
>
And ftp is rather obsolete now and considered insecure :-).
I'm nearly finished implementing the Telnet protocol for QBOX, but I should
really have had to implement SSH with AES-256 and 4096-bit keys :(.
Fortunately there is an easy way to let the host OS do the SSH stuff and
forward the plain text to QBOX using Telnet.
> What is much more important than the build process is the people who
> make changes to SMSQ/E or find (and report!) bugs.
>
> Keep on QLing! (Somehow "keep on SMSQ/Eing" doesn't have the same ring
> to it).
>
Well, "keep on QDOS'ing" also doesn't sound very well, a bit too much like
"keep on DDOS'ing" :-)
Jan
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