Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread David Heremans
Patriek Lesparre wrote: But PPP isn't really needed is it? At least my ISP (and I'm sure there are others) supports SLIP. Hmm, last time I checked not one ISP in Belgium still supported SLIP :-( David -- .--. |o_o | |:_/ | "One difference between SuSE and Red Hat is that

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread David Heremans
Laurens Holst wrote: I think Unix programs like mail or telnet or ftp are a bit too simple, I prefer to have a (G)UI. GUI is for those whose IQ is near to 0. I put the G between ( and )'s. And there is nothing wrong with a UI, and the same goes for a GUI. It's much easier. I

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
I have already talked to Adriano Cunha about this. My idea was exactly the same, but he said that there's no enough space in the kernel for that. Actually, the maximum kernel length is 16kb 32kb. but in the future he will do a multi-page kernel, which will solve this limitation.

Re: GEM v0.2 released!

2000-03-20 Thread Pierre Gielen
It's fantastic! Pierre I've released GEM v0.2! Get it at http://gem.tni.nl/ MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL

Re: .dsk files

2000-03-20 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hello I have small question. how can i get .dsk files on a disk for use on my MSX. One answer: read The Ultimate MSX FAQ, URL in signature... Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405) PS: MSX 4 EVER! (Questions? See: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/) PPS: Visit my home page at

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Joost Klootwijk
David Wrote: PS: The current opposite of a GUI is a CLI( Command Line Interface.) not a UI. Speech recognition could be another UI but it still isn't popular at the moment (and never will be on an MSX) but according to StarTrek it will become very normal in the (near) future. Not quit

Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Iwein van Caelenberg
Actually I think it would be nicer to convert the manuals to a popular document format rather than scanning them. For example, HTML, PDF or Latex. That's a good idea. But first we need the manuals (a scan of them). Anyone here has them and is willing to help ? With the scans, someone could

RE: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Marco Frissen
Although I think converting the paper manuals to electronic ones is very good, I'd prefer to use PDF as standard. HTML is fine for online viewing, but annoying if you want to print something (multiple HTML pages are seperate printjobs). A PDF file can be printed in one go. Any OCR software that

Re: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Iwein van Caelenberg
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Marco Frissen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 20 maart 2000 14:13 Onderwerp: RE: Manuals .htm Although I think converting the paper manuals to electronic ones is very good, I'd prefer to use PDF as standard. HTML is fine

Re: .dsk files

2000-03-20 Thread Pierre Gielen
Use GETDISK.COM and PUTDISK.COM on the MSX. I tried to use GETDISK recently to put SD snatcher on harddisk, but it couldn't read the diskette. So I tried using a *.DSK file (english version) directly on the harddisk and tried to start it with START. It asked for the SCC-slot and after that, it

Re: .dsk files

2000-03-20 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Use GETDISK.COM and PUTDISK.COM on the MSX. I tried to use GETDISK recently to put SD snatcher on harddisk, but it couldn't read the diskette. So I tried using a *.DSK file (english version) GETDISK WILL be able to read the disk if you run it under DOS 1 though. (That's how I did it...)

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha
least it works, and was the first serious (and working) TCP/IP project for MSX I saw. Sorry I though it was a conversion. It could be made quite easily, am I right? Conversions are not allways so easy... How could I use Uzix if it doesn't support my serial interface?

Re: .dsk files

2000-03-20 Thread Pierre Gielen
BTW Pierre: did you already correct that Y2K bug (again!) in PLAYMYM? Yes, I have, I'll mail it to you and funet and marku soon. I have also implemented the Y2K bugfix for PLAYSMP and TIMESTMP, a utility to put time/date and version numbers in a file (I used it quite a lot). BTW2 Pierre: what

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Bet you don't like VIm neither do you. Never used it, I always use PICO. I like that one... You will have to learn to operate those programs and then they are fare more comfortable and flexible then al that GUI enabled stuff. But you have to be willing to learn how it works instead of

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: And I want to implement UDP, DNS and some other things before implementing PPP and modem support. So, when connection to an ISP be done, everything will be ready for full internet connection from MSX. But PPP isn't really needed is it? At

Re: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Laurens Holst
Although I think converting the paper manuals to electronic ones is very good, I'd prefer to use PDF as standard. HTML is fine for online viewing, but annoying if you want to print something (multiple HTML pages are seperate printjobs). A PDF file can be printed in one go. Any OCR software

RE: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Hans Otten
If someone wants conversion to PDF, just ask me. I have Acrobat 4. I also have a scanner, so again, just ask and i will convert them. -Original Message- From: Iwein van Caelenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2000 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Manuals .htm

Re: Lynx-clone and POP3 mail reader developers

2000-03-20 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, David Heremans wrote: You will have to learn to operate those programs and then they are fare more comfortable and flexible then al that GUI enabled stuff. But you have to be willing to learn how it works instead of going: "Need to read mail. No clicking. Don't want to

RE: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Hans Otten
latex to postscript and then the postscript with Acrobat to pdf is possible i think -Original Message- From: Maarten ter Huurne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2000 19:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Manuals .htm On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Marco Frissen wrote: Although I

Re: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Alex Wulms
] Although I think converting the paper manuals to electronic ones is very ] good, I'd prefer to use PDF as standard. HTML is fine for online viewing, How about converting to postscript? That is very easy. Simply print it to a file with a printer driver for a postscript printer. And postscript

Re: .dsk files

2000-03-20 Thread Alex Wulms
] BTW2 Pierre: what about that MIDI program of Alex Wulms? Did he correct it? No, I did not. I unfortunately do not have the proper equipment to experiment and find the problem. And remote debugging with the equipment of somebody else is not a really workable solution. If I get my hands on

Re: Basic-Compiler

2000-03-20 Thread Alex Wulms
] On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Laurens Holst wrote: ] ] Furthermore, there are also some pre-interpreters like KUN-Basic (and ] NestorBasic), which also compile but don't generate a .COM or .BIN-file. ] ] Does KUN compile all the way up to code generation, or does it only parse ] the BASIC? And if it

Re: Basic-Compiler

2000-03-20 Thread Laurens Holst
As far as I know, the KUN compiler generates Z80 code and then executes that Z80 code. Otherwise, I would not know how they can get the speed they get. The speed of a KUN-compiled program comes very close to the speed of an assembler program. And they even have the same

Re: Manuals .htm

2000-03-20 Thread Maarten ter Huurne
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Alex Wulms wrote: ] Although I think converting the paper manuals to electronic ones is very ] good, I'd prefer to use PDF as standard. HTML is fine for online viewing, How about converting to postscript? That is very easy. Simply print it to a file with a printer