Per Witte wrote: > This recent spat of silences is really off-topic, imho. About time we got > the show back on the road. At least here, in this tiny corner of unreality, > our thoughts and opinions matter and can make a difference. So why not put > morbid thoughts aside and share with us the very latest developments in the > weird, wizzo world of QL computing? Eg: Whats the latest on QPC? on SMSQ/E > v3? EasyPtr? High precision maths? SOQL/PPP? Membranes? Q60? the Branagh > succession? etc, etc.. I usually only put news of my freeware stuff here for fear of being seen as advertising.
If people want progress news of Launchpad, for example, I'm quite happy to write it up here now its approaching completion - the main work left is a manual and some of the small utility programs supplied with it. In time, it is my intention to put a Launchpad Support Page on my website, but I am trying my hardest to get it finished, I notice also that QBranch state in their current advert in Quanta that "Coming Soon - QDT" What news on the membranes Rich (Mellor), are they available yet? Phoebus - the software download site is a bit stuck at the moment, I really hope to have it up and running soon. > I have long been wanting to have some sort of "home directory" facility in > Smsq, ie a way for programs to "know" which (sub)directory they were > executed from, so that they could easily find any associated resource files, > eg configuration files, help files, saved settings, and the like, without > any further user input or configuration. I totally agree - this is needed. The simplest way to apprach it would be to change the O.S. code to execute files which then places the execute source in a system or environment variable or perhaps in part of the job header code, though this might make the job self-modifying. What I;m getting at is that as the program is executed, the EXEC code (at OS level, not BASIC of course) stores the execution drive/dir name in somewhere where the job can access it, as it would potentially be different for each job of course. -- Dilwyn Jones
