Re: [ql-users] coulours on SMSQ

[Dave Westbury]

>> But what do you do for systems not using SMSQ 2.71+ ?
>> (PTR_GEN for QDOS/Minerva does not support SMS.SEVT)

>Are you sure? I thought the latest versions did. That's why they
>should be on the same disk as FiFi...

Chicken and egg situation: If latest QDOS PTR_GEN (v1.71?) did return IOP.RPTR
for an Event (bits 24-31 set in event vector), how would you send one? You need
SMS.SEVT which is only in SMSQ 2.71+ (the only way to prevent ERR.NC return?).

I think you might mean latest QPTR was updated to deal with events. But QPTR is
only a BASIC toolkit to access the IOP & WM calls. This only would have made
QPTR able to use events under SMSQ v2.71+

As I said I haven't seen FiFi so don't know how it works on QDOS+PE. Other
programs I have seen hang waiting for event (from SMS.SEVT) that never occurs
(though the operation can be aborted through another terminating pointer event).

Regards,
Dave.