Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 10.10.2013 um 00:37 schrieb Marcel Kilgus: > Norman Dunbar wrote: > The TK2 manual says "If the parameters of EX start with '#channel TO', > then the corresponding SuperBASIC channel will be closed (if it was > already open) and a new channel opened as a pipe to the first > program." > >>> M

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk
I dif, honest! It's just that my Tk2 manual is the original as supplied with Trump Card and I can't read the tiny print any more. Heading for Dilwyn"s web site soon Cheers, Norm. Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Marcel Kilgus" To: Subject: [Ql-Users] Job data space - fo

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: > If I open #3,some_file and ex #3 to test_bin, I do get a channel Id > on the stack (and a word count of 1) but if I run it again, the > channel Id on the stack is different. I would have thought that the > [qdosmsq] channel id for SuperBasic channel #3 would remain > constant

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 09.10.2013 um 22:53 schrieb Norman Dunbar: Norman, > > EX adds 12 bytes for "two pipes (and two counts)". Reading the source >> the counts seem to refer to two words counting the number of channels >> and the bytes of the command string (EX test_exe;'command string'). > Yes, I have no proble

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Marcel, >... > EX adds 12 bytes for "two pipes (and two counts)". Reading the source the counts seem to refer to two words counting the number of channels and the bytes of the command string (EX test_exe;'command string'). Yes, I have no problem with these two words. I have problems wit

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk
Hi Marcel, Oh well, wrong again, story of my life! I knew about the stack format with the word telling how many channels and the word for the parameter string length, but not the two pipes. Nowhere I know has any docs on these mysterious pipes. Running Qpac2's jobs utility and picking my dummy

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: > In my code size 30 example, I get 42 which is an extra 12 as well. > What's so special about 12 I wonder? > > > > Right, it must be something in the allocation of memory. I found the > code that creates a job and it simply allocates memory for > #jcb_end+d2+d3 and jcb_end

Re: [Ql-Users] Job data space - foibles?

2013-10-09 Thread Bryan Horstmann
On 08/10/2013 06:54, Lee wrote: Hee he, it has to be on a standard QL Norman. Or on QemuLator standard QL settings You shouldn't get a 0, but another * Sent from my iPad On 8 Oct 2013, at 17:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: universe ___ QL-Users Mailing L