Re: [Ql-Users] A small machine code program...

2010-11-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
value is divisible by 3 and 5 write 'FIZZBUZZ' after the number > -- > Nothing about having to stop at 100 (8-)# But, I'm sure the request was for assembly language programs, not SuperBasic? Hence the subject line in this thread? Just a thought! ;-) Cheers, Norm

Re: [Ql-Users] List of QLing 'Terms'

2010-11-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
sn't a *superior* mode of transport, it could be an Audi! Meaning, in essence, that the Audi (that George hinted at) isn't superior. Cheers, Norm. [ExComedian] -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United

Re: [Ql-Users] List of QLing 'Terms'

2010-11-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 20/11/10 16:09, gdgqler wrote: > This sounds a very good idea, An article called A6, of course, would > bring to mind a superior means of transport. Or, an Audi of some sort! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richa

Re: [Ql-Users] ED disk copying

2010-11-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
rd any longer. Sorry. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] IQLR

2010-11-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
x27;ve learned a lot (thanks George!) and it's been very enjoyable. My spelling now is still as bad as it ever was! ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom L

Re: [Ql-Users] Tomorrow (X-1)

2010-11-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi George, > For light relief come and see the Edinburgh trams debacle. Perhaps Clive > could help. Yes, I was in Edinburgh a while back for a course - I remember the carnage that was Princess Street - from Waverly Station up to the Caledonian Hotel. Nightmare. Cheers, Norman. --

Re: [Ql-Users] Tomorrow (X-1)

2010-11-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Afternoon Dilwyn, > While the idea of 'green' transport is laudable, half the time it hasn't > been thought through well enough Don't get me started. The main road into/out of Leeds for me is currently, and for the next 2 years (at least) being butchered and trashed just to put in a "super" bus la

Re: [Ql-Users] A small machine code program...

2010-11-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
BUZZ' p_fizz lea fizz,a1 ; String to print bra.s p_f_b ; print it p_buzz lea buzz,a1 ; String to print p_f_b movea.w ut_mtext,a2 jsr (a2) rts Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] ED drives

2010-10-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
I'll try to give as many as I can to each person. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-U

Re: [Ql-Users] QLiberator

2010-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Dilwyn, On 28/10/10 20:32, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > ... and I was never sure after using > SBASIC if I'd killed the QLiberator job or just buried it under the > BASIC windows. Did you try using the JOBS command from TK2? ;-) Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT C

Re: [Ql-Users] Peripheral of the day

2010-10-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
sure we could (what's this we stuff?) write an ATIMega Assembler system on the QL and get it to "just work". :-D Some, or all, of the above is total rambling on my part! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw La

Re: [Ql-Users] Peripheral of the day

2010-10-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
27;ve just started learning electronics again after about 30-40 years of ignorance! I've bought an Arduino. What a brilliant bit of kit! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS

Re: [Ql-Users] Hrm

2010-10-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
Company Tax bill in as well. Sigh! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Hrm

2010-10-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
oday in pdf format. ;-) Then again, perhaps it's better that I don't - he's already told us quite a few times. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Today...

2010-10-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
upposed to be working, in Leeds!!] -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
. A quick and slight tarting up followed. Time taken - about an hour. And I've never used Scribus before! Most of which was defining text and paragraph formats. I'm just discovered Master Pages - which might make life easier! Enjoy. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants

Re: [Ql-Users] Sorry if this is Off Topic.

2010-10-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening John, On 07/10/10 10:51, John Taylor wrote: > Norman Dunbar > > If you are using an Intel Mac this little prog will add another function to > your print menu so that you can make A5 PDF Booklets from A4 Open Office > documents. > > http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/S

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 06/10/10 16:20, Norman Dunbar wrote: > You can only export text frames in this manner, not images. It appears > that you need to select all the text frames individually as well. Ok, It appears to export all the text in various text frames *if* they are linked. My first test only had on

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
se it, exports to one of two formats - Calamus Text or Ascii Text. You can only export text frames in this manner, not images. It appears that you need to select all the text frames individually as well. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe Hous

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
PS. I too would like a PDF copy as my collection (from issue 1) is getting too big for the space available! I'd still subscribe to the paper copy and get the PDF as well! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane P

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
able for WIndows or Linux and not the original QL. I'm not giving up though. ;-) I'm pretty sure I can do it in Open Office - somehow - but as I only use this for the off letter for my business (so far) I've got a bit of a curve myself! I'll be keeping on trying and I'll

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
This is a shame but it looks like Scribus is not going to help us out here. :-( Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 051

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
es please. I've just installed the latest Scribus on my laptop, so I'll happily try it out. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Sorry, can you send it to: Norman (at) Dunbar-it (dot) co (dot) uk please. Thanks. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
ly without a cost. Only if you wish to use Adobe Writer to create your PDFs. There are many ways to skin a cat and even with Tony Tebby's rabid dislike of all things Unix, it works - for free! Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
vailable on his web site. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List htt

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 04/10/10 09:49, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: > Hello Bryan, > > may well be - but in order to use a DTP program properly, you need to > learn a lot. It took me months to get used to all features I use in > Calamus 20 years ago and I simply do not have the time to learn > how to use a new, com

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Afternoon Wolfgang, > That should take all of 6 minutes: > > 1 minute : take the staples off & put pages them in my scanner. > 2 minutes scan even pages > 2 minutes scan odd pages > 1 minute prepare PDF... > > I could do that when QL Today gets here. I could do that as well with my scanner here,

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-09-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
st add it on to any communications going out from the company or from the company equipment. Guess which laptop I'm using to type this? -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] Countdown time

2010-08-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Geoff, > Just a reminder that the deadline for QL Today is next Tuesday 10th > August. I believe you already have an article of mine to publish, however, I am working on the next one! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d

Re: [Ql-Users] Ql-Users Digest, Vol 76, Issue 52

2010-07-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 01/07/10 06:31, Rich Mellor wrote: > Although I have not seen the MasterBasic sources (and I am sure Davide > will correct me if I am wrong) - it uses the Turbo Toolkit commands for > deciphering the tokenised program in memory. > > From memory, it cannot look at an external program file - it o

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
> Yes, OK then ... what will be the 21st Century specification of this > Linux based laptop ? > > No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be . Well, if you put it like that, I still have no idea! However, a few thoughts, or rambles? MC68 processor and lots of RAM

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 20/06/10 22:15, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > Yet COBOL is not the next great thing ... :-) > Rather, an old thing. Yes, you missed my point. TNGT said that Cobol was dead. The actual situation is that TNGT is dead, and COBOL lives on. > As you say laptops have succeeded desktops, and netbooks have

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 18/06/10 00:42, Roy Wood wrote: > It was the threading that I was referring to. Turnpike would put thum > into subject threads but Thunderbird just puts them in a long, > jumbled, list - just like Outlook! Well, mine are threaded, by subject, threads start with the initial posting and new stuf

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 19/06/10 20:00, P Witte wrote: > But surely you see that it could spell then end of the Personal > Computer, in which case the "next great thing" becomes significant and > not merely a fad. They said that COBOL was dead. it lives on many many years after it's alleged demise. The reaosn being, th

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 18/06/10 00:15, Tony Firshman wrote: > I have that set but it doesn't spell check. Looks like a bug (3.0.4). That's interesting Tony. Roy on Windows and you on Mac and me on Linux, all using 3.0.4 (I think Roy mentioned 3.0.4) and only Linux can spell check as you type. Spooky! Works fine for

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 20/06/10 19:56, Norman Dunbar wrote: > It also has a call action against it in the US, already. He should have wrote (!): It also has a CLASS action Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 20/06/10 11:01, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > A Scot with an iPad up his kilt? ooer missus, I hate to think! Now Dilwyn, we wear the sporran on the outside of the kilt. It's a glorified handbag/purse. There are no pockets on a kilt, so you have to put your wallet, chewing gum, loose change etc somewher

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 20/06/10 10:13, Billy wrote: > But an Ipad - no, what do you do with a hi tech dinner plate when not > using it, too big to go in your pocket, even the most confirmed > medallion man would think twice. It doesn't do flash, which puts about 70% of the internet out of reach. It doesnt do HD qual

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
George, The current trend appears to be towards Cloud computing, >>> Aha! But how do you program for this? Cloud is the latest marketing paradigm/buzz word to hit the IT world. Like most other "next great things" it will pass and fade from memory. All it means is that instead of you or your

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Roy, On 16/06/10 20:32, Roy Wood wrote: > Right, if you want to read what I am replying to you will have to go > back to Norman's eloquent reply to my . well you get the picture. Eloquent? I've never been called that before! ;-) > I fear I was a touch spartan when I referred to free s

Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks and The QL Future

2010-06-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 15/06/10 23:29, Roy Wood wrote: Hi Roy, good to hear from you. Hope you are well. > I know that there are a whole bumch of 'free > software' guerillas out there That'll be me then! ;-) > but no free software has ever matched the > commercial stuff - sad as that may be. Forgive me, but that i

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 12/06/10 19:49, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > Design and make a new 21st Century successor to the QL ... :-) Not wishing to be the bear in the ointment here, but that suggestion - while a grand one - will no longer work. In my opinion, back in the 80s fine, there were lots and lots of computer compa

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Urs, > Currently there are just a few documents, 41 videos and 1000+pictures > online. My main backlog is the documents which many of them were already > scanned (single pages) but need to be glued into single PDFs. Are they scanned as image files (Ok, possibly a stupid question!) because

Re: [Ql-Users] Website makeover

2010-06-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, > No. The style sheet changes let me change a lot of things very quickly. > Meaning I can spend more time on the QL contents, less on the > maintenance of appearance etc. That's the entire raisin d'etre of CSS. You can easily change the entire website look and feel without affectin

Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, >>> SO are you content to see the QL disappear into oblivion >>> OR are you going to do something about it? Well, I write articles for QL Toady (for no payment by the way) and hopefully, that helps keep the QL - in any shape or form alive. I also have the http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.

Re: [Ql-Users] QL search engine

2010-06-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, Works perfectly on Firefox 3.6 running on Linux with not an ActiveX in sight. Looking at the code you have added to make it appear, there's no sign of any activeX anything. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demo

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Disk Format

2010-05-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 08/05/10 10:41, Rich Mellor wrote: > Does anyone have the details of the standard Sinclair QL disk format > for a DSDD disk: I have recently put this very information on the QDOSMSQ website at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:fs:dsdd in case anyone (else) is interested. Rich

Re: [Ql-Users] Minerva Manual

2010-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Tony, Dilwyn, > Best to stop this now before the puns get *too* bad, though. I agree, no mower! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Miss Quoting, or Mess

2010-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, On 11/04/10 20:58, Tony Firshman wrote: > He he - V3 now has the yellow bar suggesting I add the attachment, That > is a mighty easy to code but useful feature. Yes, it looks for the word 'attached' or others that you can configure in preferences->composition->general->keywords b

Re: [Ql-Users] Miss Quoting, or Mess

2010-04-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 11/04/10 20:17, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> It has also messed up the attribution (see above). > > Can't help here yet either - I never pay any attention to the > attribution line! Maybe I can help, well, Mozilla can: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips and sc

Re: [Ql-Users] Miss Quoting, or Mess

2010-04-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, in case you still have problems with Smart (!) folders: Smart Folders combine mailboxes from multiple accounts. Access Smart Folders either by selecting View | Folders | Smart Folders from the menu, or by clicking the forward and back buttons (which will cycle through all folder vie

Re: [Ql-Users] Cakking Dilwyn

2010-04-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, > It's only taken until today for me to realise that the 'cakking' was a > TF mistype of 'calling'... where I come from,Cakking is not calling - it's having a poo! :-) Cheers, Norman. Off to Egypt for a week. Alison needs (!) another holiday! ___

Re: [Ql-Users] Cakking Dilwyn

2010-03-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 31/03/10 17:59, Rich Mellor wrote: > I would prefer bottom quoting - that is the default in Thunderbird! If I may offer an opinion too... If we choose the "standard" bottom posting then we can read the salient points of the conversation from the top downwards - like reading a newspaper or boo

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to allthe readers

2010-03-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 22/03/10 19:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Actually, the "wyn" part of my name means "holy", "noble" or "bright" > (or various synonyms of...) and I'm sure various comments will be passed > on that too... I shall refrain from comment! ;-) > And did you know "Windows" was so-called because you ended

Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Farmer - A challenge

2010-03-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 13/03/10 21:53, Rich Mellor wrote: > Does anyone fancy a go at cracking the copy protection on Sinclair QL > Farmer? > > I get it to work partly on q-emulator - in that it draws the first > screen, but then it resets the QL - I am stuck as to why this one does > not seem to work! > I might hav

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.33 - Formatting a Win Drive

2010-03-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Rich, > Is there a minimum size for a QXL.WIN file? 1MB or lower? >From my website, http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:fs:qlwa ,it seems I determined that 1MB is the smallest drive possible. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] Storing QL Floppy Disks

2010-02-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Malcolm, > This discussion has brought to light to some useful tips ... well done > to all of you who contributed ... :-) > > Can someone write it up for QL Today, and for the Quanta magazine ? Yes, if you want to - feel free. The information on my web site is freely available to all. I

Re: [Ql-Users] Storing QL Floppy Disks

2010-02-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Rich, > Does anyone know of any standard floppy disk imaging software for the QL > - to make a single file on the PC for example, which would be the > equivalent of a floppy disk which all emulators could read / write to ? > > Might be an interesting little project if anyone is interested

Re: [Ql-Users] Storing QL Floppy Disks

2010-02-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Rich, > Thinking about it - which emulators can use a qxl.win file maybe we just > need a smaller subset of this which would be floppy disk size? > > Can someone please share the details of this format? go to http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk and there is a section on QL filestystems. I hav

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC home directory

2010-02-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Malcolm, > Consider it passed on. Thanks Norman that's just what I was after. I can > now unzip QPC2 along with my PCBCAD program into any PC directory and > get it to boot and run without any reconfiguration and no QXL.WIN file!!! You are very welcome. Cheers, Norman. _

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC home directory

2010-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, > Thanks Normal, I'll pass the info on. Hmmm. I've been called a few things in my time, but normal was never one of them - for obvious reasons. ;-) Cheers, norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC home directory

2010-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 23/02/10 17:10, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible within QPC2 to find the dos directory > that QPC itself was executed from i.e. C:\program files\QPC\ > > Got asked that in an email today, I thought it might make an interesting > helpline type FAQ if anyone knows how! > W

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 23/02/10 10:41, François Van Emelen wrote: > For Quill docs I use Norman Dunbar's QSTRIPPER. It is fast easy to use > and it can save in TXT, HTML, DOCBOOK XML and PDF format. Accented > vowels are converted correctly. Hmmm. I'm glad to hear that someone (other than me) is using QStripper - I

Re: [Ql-Users] Today Apple launched their latest product the iPad (not OT)

2010-01-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL78UNSoajc > Absolutely brilliant!! I'll second that! Cheers, Norman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Peter Graf

2010-01-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Anton, > Does anybody has a valid Email-address of Peter Graf (Q60) for me? Peter just posted an email to the developers' list, the email he used is pg...@q40.de. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
> SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote, On 1/01/10 13:36: >> I'm a bit surprised that there has been no comment about the >> QL Today issue 2 which I sent out middle of December Arrived today in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Almost read already! Thanks, Norman. __

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, > I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority > do use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default. I agree. > However some users append the "Original message" under the reply. M$ > Outlook (and Express) mailers unfortunately do this by d

Re: [Ql-Users] SAV files

2010-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 03/01/10 19:52, Norman Dunbar wrote: > Dilwyn, > > attached is a file that decodes a SAV file - as promised. Hope you can > read my code after all these years! > > Cheers, > Norman. > Sorry folks, didn't mean to send that to everyone. However, now you have it,

Re: [Ql-Users] SAV files

2010-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn, attached is a file that decodes a SAV file - as promised. Hope you can read my code after all these years! Cheers, Norman. 1000 REMark _SAV file decoder 1005 : 1010 CLS 1015 PRINT 'SAV File Decoder'\\ 1020 INPUT 'Which _sav file ? ';sav$ 1025 IF sav$ = '' THEN STOP: END IF 1030 : 1035 in

Re: [Ql-Users] Reindeer quiz - ANSWERS

2010-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all. Glad you enjoyed my little quiz! ;-) > Over here there are (or were) at least three I knew I'd have/be in trouble with you Per! > Yksi, Kaksi, Kolme (1, 2, 3 in Finnish) See what I mean? > A female called Rudolf? Fraid so. The song is wrong - much like the wartime favourite "there

Re: [Ql-Users] SAV files

2010-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, On 03/01/10 19:20, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Does anyone have information on the format of _sav basic files (as used > by Liberation Software's QSAVE utility and the equivalent command in > SBASIC)? I'm thinking that I might have some information somewhere. However, I once wrote a SB p

[Ql-Users] Reindeer quiz - ANSWERS

2010-01-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
I never said it would be a proper quiz by the way! * How many reindeer are employed by Santa? Two. * What are their names (Spelling need not be correct)? Rudolf and Olive. * What sex is "the red nosed reindeer"? Female. * Why do you say that? Only female reindeer keep their antlers throughout w

[Ql-Users] Reindeer quiz (Answers to follow)

2010-01-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 02/01/10 01:16, P Witte wrote: > Not arrived in Norway yet either. We had reindeer steak for Christmas, > (not me personally, of course, Im a veggie) so the postman might have > been one short.. Ahh, it's good to know that while the post office still charge exorbitant fees at Christmas (other h

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Happy New Year all. > I'm a bit surprised that there has been no comment about the > QL Today issue 2 which I sent out middle of December - or was > the post too slow to deliver before Xmas? Not yet received in Leeds I'm afraid. Been snowing a little in the UK and that has (as usual) caused everyt

Re: [Ql-Users] A little linux joke...

2009-12-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 12/12/09 13:44, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Q: How does a Linux guru make love? Brilliant!!! Cheers, Norman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] More BASIC Queries

2009-11-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, >> Is there a way of getting say "EXTRAS" loaded without loading all the >> other 400+ 'keywords' contained in TK2? DJ_TOOLKIT has something in it to check if an extension is loaded - it's the CHECK() command (I think!!!) Also, in one of my past articles, I wrote about the Name List

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

2009-10-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dave, > QT might produce a portable result, but it is much harder to program. Well, I like it but I have to admit to not programming in .net (any language) so I can't really compare. It's a wee bit harder than Borland C++ Builder, for instance, but I like it. I have a couple of program ru

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

2009-10-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Derek, > Is QT a good platform, I used to dabble a little in Linux. I like it, Dave Walker thinks it's a little harder to program that .net - I have no idea as I don't program .net. There are bots of QT that take a while to get your head around. It is, in many places, less easy to figure out

Re: [Ql-Users] XTC68 Sources

2009-10-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, > ... > As I said if you were interested in producing a Windows graphic front-end > then feel free to go ahead. It should not be very hard to do using > Microsoft .NET toolset. Or, even beter QT! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List h

Re: [Ql-Users] The "Tebby Files"

2009-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Jochen, first, congratulations on getting maried - or is it your first anniversary yet! ;-) > So send in your contributions as well, please :-)) I'm already typing mine up. I won't say exactly what I'm doing - it's a surprise. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL

Re: [Ql-Users] PCW closed down

2009-09-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening John in Wales, > PS. Norman, it must have been BBC BASIC where you began? No, I never got into BBC Basic. It was General Purpose Basic that I was taught from PCW. Then I had to translate some of that into ZX-Basic when the ZX-81 arrived. Cheers, Norman. __

Re: [Ql-Users] PCW closed down

2009-09-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: > Sad news for connoisseurs of UK's computing press. After 31 years Personal > Computer World (PCW) magazine had to close this summer. The last issue was > August 2009. In a word, sad. PCW taught me Basic programming long before I ever had a computer to actually type it into.

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital C executables

2009-08-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, > At least you didn't send me a copy of a "dickital C" :o| And there was me thinking I had done! Ah well! ;-) > Who is this Richard everyone is referring to anyway??? In my case, Richard Cranium! > But, to be serious for a moment, Gerry Jackson explained to me that DP's > rights

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital C executables

2009-08-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Tony, Tony Firshman wrote: > Norman Dunbar wrote, On 30/07/09 21:41: >> ... >> read it. It's been a few years since I last read or wrote to the dick so >> it may be a bit flaky. >> > That reminds me of the QL man (shall remain nameless, but he know

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital C executables

2009-07-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn, I don't have the original microdrive cartridges to hand _ i'm not sure if I still have them, however, I do have one of my old backup floppies. Unfortunately I can't read it with QPC under Linux - I still haven't finished writing my filesystem driver for QDOS floppies! However, I'll take t

Re: [Ql-Users] Digital C executables

2009-07-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, I think I might have the executables for Digital C lying around somewhere. I'll have a look and see what I can find. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 and Windows7

2009-07-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
Derek Stewart wrote: > Is this now a Microsoft Windows mailing list QPC Derek - is it Windows or is it QDOS? I'd say we let them in! ;-) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Windows Viewer

2009-07-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Rich Mellor wrote: > Has anyone written a windows program which can open Quill documents to > display them on screen or print them? > Qstripper on Dilwyn's web site? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Phoebus, > The proper solution for uQLx is for the graphics parts to be abstracted > and maybe use SDL or something along the same lines, something that will > enable native compilation under Windoze, MacOS etc. That would most likely be QT - in my opinion of course, other opinions are ava

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: > Ok, Cygwin as far as I remember gives you the opportunity to do a > download only and to save the files in a given location. That is the > best option. It doesn't install anything. Ok, I'll try again! Once downloaded, yo can then run the installer again

Re: [Ql-Users] uqlx-win32

2009-05-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, >> You'll need the Cygwin distribution to provide the Linux-like >> environment: www.cygwin.com >> Be careful, it can be a huge download of 50MB with 6,478 files to >> install as I found to my cost...oh to know what I'm doing with Linux >> and Cygwin :-(( Downloading everything by

[Ql-Users] QStripper - QL Today corrections & further updates

2009-04-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
On page 9 of the current issue of QL Today, where the commands to build a subversion repository of my QStripper program's source code, everything has been put on one line. At the top of column two on page 9, it should read as follows: cd src mkdir qstripper cd qstripper svn checkout http://qstripp

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today article.

2009-03-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Roy, Roy wood wrote: > I have spent the last week deliberating about whether to write anything > here about the article in QL Today. In some ways I was very disinclined > to do it because I did not want it to turn in one of those acrimonious > arguments that run on these pages. As I wrote

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Norman - try this for info: > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Thanks Dilwyn, I have subscribed. Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: > That's because it is rarely used :) > Address is: ql-develop...@q-v-d.com > You subscribe just like you did with ql-users Hi Phoebus, where ha

Re: [Ql-Users] Compiling UQLX

2009-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Peter, Peter wrote: > If you have further questions, try the ql-developers mailing list. at the risk of sounding a little stupid, what ql-developers list do you refer to? I've never heard of it! Thanks. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [Ql-Users] MD5 algorithm in SuperBASIC or 68K assembler?

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Urs, > did somebody implement the MD5 algorithm in S*BASIC? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 Not that I am aware of. > Or is there a 68K assembler implementation? This could be the base for a > Toolkit-command. Not yet! Cheers, Norman. ___

Re: [Ql-Users] Astrologer

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Dilwyn, I can't help with the MDV cartridges as I never had that program - for obvious reasons! ;-) > I have been trying to help someone transfer some microdrive cartridges to an > emulator and am having problems transferring a copy of Astrologer from > Digital Precision from microdrive

Re: [Ql-Users] BASIC Questions.

2009-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, > Well someone sent me a Soduko SB program but I have unfortunatly lost it! It > looked very interesting & I'm asking it it could be reposted, please. That somebody would have been me! Sorry to hear that you lost it though, I do that from time to time. I shall send you another to y

Re: [Ql-Users] Soduku

2009-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Andy, Andy Barber wrote: > Is there a Soduku QL SuperBASIC program that can generate/solve a Soduku grid? I wrote a generate a while back in response to a challenge laid down in QL Toady magazine. It doesn't solve the puzzles it generates though. It is written in SuperBasic only and gene

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