Morning Dexter, good idea !
I've already started (some time ago) a web site which will, eventually, detail all of QDOS and as much of SMSQ as I can. It was www.dunbar.cwc.net/qdos/qdos.html and it might even still be there. Unfortunately, NTL decided to stop providing an ISP service to people who wern't using thier cable modems and the site had to 'die'. Last time I looked, it was still there. I now have a new service provider and when work and real life allows, I'll get back on the task of finishing the massive job which I started all those months ago ! The new site will be www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qdos when it is up and running. Regards, Norman. PS. Some of the docs on the site were donated by various people, there is a description and disassembly of the scheduler there as well. ------------------------------------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com ------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Dexter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Documentation Project... Hi All, Things you can do to move to a better situation: 1. Support your dealers - buy things from them, or they will go away because of economic necessity. 2. Communicate and co-operate with others - share the knowledge you have and form teams to do jobs that are larger than one person. 3. Make information widely available - document the resources you have, and make that documentation available to others. In light of the above, there's a couple of practical things I can do to help the situation. I would like to start a QDOS/SMSQ documentation project. I would like to provide a site that can be used co-operatively by everyone to find out or offer information on the QDOS (and etc) code. We could disassemble sections of code and annotate them. We could rewrite whole sections with the ultimate goal of having a QDOS/SMSQ-compatible operating system that would be open source, in the full sense of the word. If anyone has ideas, suggestions, or warnings about the best way to go about this, please let me know by private email. I have a web and mail server and am happy to fully support this project, if anyone else would like to contribute too... Thank you. Dave This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
