Hi Dilwyn,
Thanks for your efforts to present the one place where one will find
everything QL related!
Per, Marcel and I have been discussing the 10 character limit for
Dmedium_name$, which seems a bit strange given the fact that, whilst
floppies can only have a max of 10 characters for their names, the hard
disk format specifies that the name may be a max of 20 characters long.
This may be corrected in a future version of SMSQ/E.
QL is the old black.
Wolfganbg
Per Witte has released version 02 of his QLWARZ utility to stretch,
refresh, or defragment a hard drive on QPC2. As there is no way to
extend a QXL.WIN filing container, this program takes the next best
approach and formats a new one with a different capacity and copies
directories and files over to the new QXL.WIN.
Version 02 now supports 20 character medium names. The reason this
requires an update is that, after many years, some versions of SMSQ/E
(eg SMSQmulator) now do the right thing and take the length count word
into consideration, meaning that in most cases you are no longer limited
to a 10 character medium name.
Per explains in the readme file with the software that some BASIC
commands may still truncate the 20 character names to 10 characters, as
they ignore the word length count (e.g. DMEDIUM_NAME$ and STAT), as well
as QPAC2 Files menu, although he hopes that these will be updated in due
course.
Download QLWARZ v02 from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/utils/index.html
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