Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete
Hi John, Wen I bought a Q40 many years ago, when it first came, I also had problems with DRVLINK losing data on a Q40 style hard disk partition. So I never used it again. I was going to delete it from the support disks with he Q60, but others around me said that this is a supplied program and should be used with care. My personal feeling were it should never be used, as the source is not available. Unless it is in the SMSQ/E source, maybe Wolfgang can correct me here. Derek John Hall wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and drvcheck or some such names) don't know if those are still supplied and indeed if they work on current systems. DRVLNK (the one that performs various consistency checks) works fine on QXL.WIN files but should NOT be used on Q40/Q60 partitions - in a moment of madness over Xmas I checked my WIN1 and lost the lot! (Of course the _really_ stupid bit was accepting its offer to fix the cluster map...) John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete
Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and drvcheck or some such names) don't know if those are still supplied and indeed if they work on current systems. The programs are on the QPC2 disk in the folders that no one looks at. In the folder DHUTIL there are two versions of DRVCHK and two of DRVLNK. Does anyone actually use them? Another thought, now that QL programs are getting bigger do we need a QL defrag routine? Best wishes, Geoff These are executables. I'm sure these were SBASIC programs back in the days of the QXL. That's the kind of thing Stuart was looking for I think to see if he could write his own. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2/Windows
Yes, Launchpad is good too. I have been reviewer and user of it since its 'launch' ... :-) ...and I leave such puns to Malcolm ;-) It comes with lots and lots of pre-defined icons for all your favourite programs. So the high colour version will look even better ... no doubt Dilwyn is hammering away with Easy Pointer4 as we speak. -- Malcolm Cadman Sort of...last couple of weeks has seen NO progress whatsoever due to pressures of work. But it will happen, although do bear in mind the original Launchpad took about 2 years! (though as I actually use it myself, I do want it to happen for my own use as much as anything else!). The nice thing is, I can update it almost as I go along so it ends up under continuous test here each time new menus are linked and cxompiled. Such is the ease of producing apps with Easyptr! Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete
Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and drvcheck or some such names) don't know if those are still supplied and indeed if they work on current systems. DRVLNK (the one that performs various consistency checks) works fine on QXL.WIN files but should NOT be used on Q40/Q60 partitions - in a moment of madness over Xmas I checked my WIN1 and lost the lot! (Of course the _really_ stupid bit was accepting its offer to fix the cluster map...) John I'm told I was wrong - DRVlink and DRVchk were never supplied as SBASIC progs, they were always executables like the current ones. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
