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From: "thegilpins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ql-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: [ql-users] General Sort out
>
> It has suddenly become very quiet on the QL-users list - nothing to
read for
> four days now. Has everyone logged off for Christmas? Here's a little
> something to occupy your minds and time between the season's
festivities:
>
> Having purchased Launchpad and QWord as well as updated my SMSQ/E and
QPac2,
> my system does not run as well as it used to. The basic principles
have
> remained unchanged since I used two Aurora/SGC/QuBide machines at work
and
> in order to keep all the database files (.dbf) up to date, these two
> machines were networked across the office - slow but very reliable I
found.
>
> I have always started off with the obligatory "boot" file in which I
LRESPR
> just about every toolkit etc imaginable and set up my ALTKEYs etc. I
then
> provide the option of installing SMSQ - the Accounts package 'Cash
Trader'
> would not run under SMSQ - hence the reason for giving the option. At
the
> end of the "boot" programme, I EXed a QLiberated SuperBASIC programme
called
> "GENERAL_MENU_obj" which includes a clock correction prog and then a
menu to
> provide one of five options plus a 'Return to SuperBASIC' from which I
could
> do all the things a basic machine could do, or something specific like
> 'Family Trees' - Genealogy - or 'Scouting'. Having retired 4 years
ago, I
> have now decided to get rid of all the 'Company System' stuff and
substitute
> all the Quanta stuff I have either inherited or have written during
the last
> couple of years - at present "QUANTA" runs from floppies only. Over
the last
> few years - gosh, how time flies once one has retired! - I have made
various
> half hearted attempts to get all my QL stuff installed on the PC
running
> QPC2 - now have 3V11 installed - only to find that any reference to
> networking (nfs_use etc) causes an error. So, the whole thing needs
sorting
> out.
>
> Where do I start? (From the beginning! - "boot")?
>
> How do I know which toolkits and extensions are required for which
> programmes and which programmes load their own extensions? (Could this
cause
> duplicate entries if the same toolkit is loaded twice, or use up
unnecessary
> memory?) Is there any way of uninstalling an extension once loaded?
>
> Since SMSQ causes a complete reset when loaded, should I be loading
toolkits
> after SMSQ or before (in case I want to use QDOS) or both ('cos if
it's all
> lost when SMSQ loads it would only be loaded once anyway)?
>
> Has anyone got any pearls of wisdom to offer?
>
> Have a GREAT Christmas everyone and happy QLing in 2004
>
> John Gilpin.
Time to consider how many of these extentions you need on a regular
basis and have possibly a boot that loads smsqe and then offers you the
choice of running one of two or three alternative configuration of
extentions depending on what your going to do in that session, from
there it would be possible to load in other extentions should you decide
you need them
It should be easy enough to avoid duplication of extentions buy testing
for them in basic ( write procedures to load extentions and report
"already loaded " should that be the case
Ah if only I had time to practise what I preach.
Merry christmes to all
All the best - Bill
