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Norman at Dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:
Steady Peter, steady :o)
Shouldn't your reminder better go to the one who started this myriad
programmers, personal note and talk is cheap stuff? o:-)
Actually, I meant to put 'steady everyone'. Apologies for 'picking' on you
. Then again, maybe I used
something else instead.
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SNIP
( why does my spell checker always want to give you two 'll's)
Do you have Dilwyn configured to use a Welsh spelling checker dictionary
perhaps, just about everything in that would have two 'll's :o)
Happy New Year to one and all.
Cheers,
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(Just had to check the spelling of that otherwise Norman Dunbar will be
correctling my English again.)
Yeah right - like I'm in a position to crittur-size - English isn't my first
language :o)
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Bit of a Bum job that one, Norm.
And you never quite got to the Bottom of it did you?
I seem to remember I pooh-poohed it at the time :o)
enough bad jokes for one day...
Groan !
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And as for the cover disk, I guess only someone like Per Witte could
have come up with a name like POX for a program ;-)
Excuse me, I have come up with some good ones myself too, in the past. Remember
ARchive Syntax Evaluator all those years ago. :o)
One day I'll
is
somewhat in the suburbs and our little bit of it is in the suburbs of that.
(Suburbs squared (or the recirpical of same) ?)
However, as far as I know, our place is the only place where the QL exists -
whihc is a good thing.
Cheers,.
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For Norman,
When trying to understand the Qubide code you might look into an old
problem I have with using DBAS.
With Suqcess, all database mutations are immediately stored on the device
but I found that after making a lot of changes, DBAS/Qubide lose track
mainframes etc, and we have OPDs all over the place. They
werer pretty damned good for their time, and QL based of course.
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- QBide (spelling!))
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one ever written one
device driver myself (Black_hole) and that was difficult enough based on the
minimal information that was around at the time.
It *might* make a useful (?) article for our esteemed periodical. (Ribbit).
Chjeers,
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that, but codes from -5 through to -1 will overwrite data at the top
of your A4 stack.
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Not only that, but codes from -5 through to -1 will overwrite data at
the top of your A4 stack.
Ignore that. I'm a pillock. I've got my mental stack upside down again :o(
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)
I don't even know what one is !
I might have to look it up somewhere.
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-Provence then stay off the roads.
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The US is a big country.
I remember driving down a bit of Queensland in 2000 - that's a big country too !
Steve Irwin - RIP.
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Thanks.
(I think !!!)
Cheers,
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Probably, I can see no connection !
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years - but it
bears no resemblance to anything actually spoken in France. Much like English
in this country I suppose.
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first choice and
led the way (ok, maybe not Australia, but we told them where to drive!) and
everybody else copied the new and fashionable Americans :o)
ducks under desk and hides
Now, if that's not politically correct . :o)
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, we'll always be ready for a good fight :o)
Right, I'm off to the accountants now - VAT looming.
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it might do me good).
I don't know, you try to help an invalid once in your life and he continually
reminds you of it :o)
Be afraid, be very afraid . :o)
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, Dilwyn, Bro Emrys, Tal-y-Bont, Gwynnedd :o)
Must have learned it in frustration every time we beat them at rugby!
Dunno - when was that then ?
Birthday is 10 December 1959 if you want to send me a card Norman ;-)
Who knows - watch the letter box ...
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Norman
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[Age: pedwar deg chwech - only known to Welsh speakers :-) ]
That'll be 4 10 6 then; or
(4+10) *6 = 84 perhaps - perhaps not.
Must be 4 *10 +6 = 46.
Same as me then,
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On a similar subject, whats the average age of you guys... Don't
lie, I've seen the pictures :-)
as a starter for ten, I was born the year we last won the world cup so
the average currently stands
at 40, any advance ! :-p
Born April 7th 1960.
Two days after
.
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Now then Robert,
May I suggest that you also put a link to from where a download could be
performed? So not only do you suggest that the user gets a [much better]
tandards compliant browser, but also from where they can get it.
Consider it (almost) done :o)
Cheers,
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://bountiful.demon.co.uk/qstripper.html
If only everything in IT was that simple :o)
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you just hate it when people remind you of how long ago someting was
using youe own kids !!!)
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eBay to buy ... a spell checker !
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Morning Geoff David,
Thanks for the information of the Text87 file format and the warnings. I
suspect that will be a non-starter then, however, you never know !
BTW Norman, I assume you have the accented characters translation codes,
but, if not, I can let you have the ones QL2PC uses,
I
wants it.
More changes to come, soonish !
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linked.
At least you've got over the initial 'hump' as it were and only have the4 small
dowloads from here on in. I'll try to not upgrade the QT system for a while to
prevent having to do the big stuff again!
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There's a hell of a lot of source code too.
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Any chance to accept t91 files ?
Certainly - if you have the file format for a t91 file I should be able to
build a plugin to extract the text. However, I don't have T91 anywhere to be
able to test it.
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boring to me.
Which does beg the question, how exactly did 'the Angel of the Lord' manage to
impregnate Mary then :o)
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it again,
thanks. I promise never to use IE to read my mails ever again :o)
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in HTML or TEXT whihc is quite useful. On
the other hand, I might be doing it manually as the default HTML generated is
quite 'verbal'.
Yes please (in other words !)
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Morning Per,
Hi Norman,
Dont know if its any good to you, but Ive been through QL-HTML translates
issue before. Ive got a couple of lists you may find useful. Sent them to
your bountiful address. If thats not your address any more and you want
them, please get in touch.
Thaks
(
Thanks again.
Cheers,
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Morning all,
quick (and silly) question. I need the follownig character codes for QDOS
please - I'm not anywahere near my docs :
The pound sign (£).
The copyright sign (c)
The Registerd sign (r) - if there is one that is !
Cheers,
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format and still
claiming openness. SNAFU then.
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Source, I am obliged to supply the full
source code to anyone who wants it. This is a pleasure to do and I've got no
qualms whatsoever about doing it.
Watch this space.
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the
file size can get quite large.
Good luck with the coding .
Thanks.
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. It's been too quiet here recently, I thought I would stir things up a bit
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are using the PRE tag, so you
should be ok.
I suspect that because you are using the PRE tag that your special characters
might be ok, but I'm sure I've had problems when doing assembly stuff in PRE
that I still had to convert stuff to the xxx; format.
Cheers,
Norman
/?
And help will be displayed showing all sorts of (useful ?) options.
I admin that the Unix sort is far better, as it the sort program that came with
Digital C from DP all those years ago. I still use it on the odd occasion when
I can't remember whow to write one myself !!!
Cheers,
Norman
Morning Roy,
SNIP
I will miss a good friend.
You have my commiserations Roy, sorry to hear about Steve.
Regards,
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) weighs 10 Lb exactly. Thus, one UK pint
is 20 Ounces in weight - hence 20 FlOz.
In the US a pint of water will be exactly 1 Lb or 16 FlOz.
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there too - most of them, highly amusing.
Cheers,
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)
Cheers,
Norman.
In 1997, retired Hong Kong judge Wayne Gould, 59, a New Zealander, saw a
partly completed puzzle in a Japanese bookshop. Over 6 years he developed
a computer program to produce puzzles quickly. Knowing that British
newspapers have a long history of publishing crosswords
* got a working Sudoku generator giving the
options of easy, medium, hard and bloody hell - I even generate an unsolvable
grid with only 4 blank spaces :o)
Watch this space .
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Morning Ffybis,
Well the other SCR2BMP doesn't :-) I made it just for my Q40.
which other scr2bmp - I thought I wrote that !
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AFAIAA, 'C' was a development of the [typeless] language 'B' which was a
development of the language 'BCPL' (available at one time for the BBC
micro).
Intersetingly enough, and if my memory serves me correctly, wasn't BCPL
available from MetaComCo (hope I got the capitalisation correct !)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please ignorejust changing my email address - checking done it right.
Hmmm.
If I read the original email and follow the instructions to ignore it then I
haven't actually ignored it have I ?
On the other hand, if I simply ignore it without reading it, then I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ooops,
Device is un-formatted
But I was using it last night, QXL_WIN and all.
Don't format it !!!
I have QPC on a stick too and it works on my laptop under XP Home and Linux.
It works at work on Windows 2000 Pro SP4. (and SP3 and )
It refuses to be recognised
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd argue that comment. I think its more to do with the quality and
manufacture of your stick. The disgo brand (I work from 'em, so am =
probably
biased!) are guaranteed to work on any USB enabled environment
Mine's a Crucial Gizmo 256 Mb. Guarenteed for live and no
to the tower. This is so that tourists can get the time and the
inclination :o) groan
See you all when I get back.
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, but forgot to do
the date.
Silly me.
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for a fortnight, then I promise to sort things out when I get back.
Thanks.
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, WWF (not the wrestling, the World
Wide Fund for Nature). Alternatively, buy a Big Issue from someone in the
street !
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ago.)
Bear in mind that my memory isn't all that great (I need a RAM upgrade to my
head, probably a CPU upgrade as well) but as I said above, I'm almost 100%
certain.
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- who's clever now then
?
Still, and in an attempt to at least mention our esteemed platform of choice,
at least we don't have to worry about virusses on the QL do we ?
Apart from the one I wrote many years ago :o)
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you've just had a child and I don't have any, and I
never have enough time for anything ?
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from him again.
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too.
I used to do some work for him - which never came to fruition as he vanished
before it was complete - conjverting old 128Kb programs to run on expanded
systems plus removing the copy protection routines etc. We had many a long chat
in those days :o)
Cheers,
Norman
, this is the utility that was supplied with WinBack - Directory_bas - I
extracted from it because it had less clutter compared to the similar routine
within WinBack itself.
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traversal routine which opens the directory and reads entries from
it. I suspect the code in there may be useful. I cams across a similar problem
when I was writing WinBack all those years ago.
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Check out lines 1250 and 1255 in the following extract from Directory_bas which
is the utility to build a SuperBasic file which rebuilds you Win_ directory
structure.
Cheers,
Norman.
1140 DEFine PROCedure check_dir (d$)
1145 LOCal name_len%, curr_d$(40), curr_f$(41), entry$(64), loop
1150
was still selling my stuff.
HTH
Cheers,
Norman.
I'll need to spend a bit more time on it when I'm less tired.
Actually, this is a good advert for the little USB Memory Pens which
were discussed here a few days ago. I can just dump the sources and a
copy of QPC2 and QLiberator in my USB memory
know !
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:21:48 +0100 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
geschrieben:
Hi Norman,
We may never know !
No problem, there are more things we may never know ;)
Indeed - such as :
Why did the chicken cross the road ?
What came first, the chicken or the egg
to something like 4-5000 words or a couple of pages,
[most] people wouldn't mind. But, then again .
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remotely like this for the QL, who
knows - the very thought of it might spur someone with the talent to do
the job, on to actually doing it.
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was referring to the esteemed QL Toady periodical.
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hitchies wrote:
Re: -
Called shut up, ewe!
Well, it did have Anthony Hopkins in it
Darren.
Sorry Darren that was the Glasgow version, and it was called 'shut up
ewes' which is Glaswegian for 'please, be quiet.' :o)
Good try though - welcome back.
Cheers,
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could have an irregular 'off topic' column in which articles of
interest could be published - even if not related to the QL. Or would
that be unacceptable ?
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and Dai
* The Sheepsh*g Redemption
* Breakfast at Taffanys
* Look Back in Bangor
* Evans Can Wait
* A Fishguard Called Rhondda
* Where Eagles Aberdare
* Dial M For Merthyr
:o)
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Excellent little tip! Mind if I publish this in QLToday?
You already have - I wrote up my experiences with QPC and a USB drive some time
back. :o)
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confirm the above, but I think Windows 95 will work as well, if you
install the correct driver to make it able to work the USB port/stick drive.
NT3.5 and 4.0 will not work as it doesn't support USB devices 'naturally' -
although there might be a driver somewhere for it.
Cheers,
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is I'm very much self taught as a programmer, and without any
resources to call on, I tend to get very dis-hearted when it all goes horribly
wrong and I've got no-one to consult who knows better. (This was before the
internet !)
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. I never did get the 'code generator' written
but what the hell.
This project will take me some time and may not even appear (like many in the
past) but it could prove to be very useful if it does. Anyone fancy a copy of
Oracle running on their QL ?
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. Only joking about Oracle
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You can find qdos-gcc at:
URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/english/frames.html
Thanks.
How about mysql ;-)
Close, SQLLite.
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at present plus, my 'music' knowlege is far far less than my
graphics knowlege - so it is unlikelt that I'll ever be able to do a sampler.
(Assuming the hardware limitations allowed it!)
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Roy wood wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy,
did you get my request to renew QL Toady 'in the usual fashion' - I
sent it to sales*qbranch.
Cheers,
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I did and a receipt is on it's way
Thanks - receipt has been received.
:o)
Cheers,
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did you get my request to renew QL Toady 'in the usual fashion' - I sent it to
sales*qbranch.
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, the
same key can be used for multiple programs - so CTRL+S in Notepad does a 'save
current document' while it may do a completely different action in another
application - it all depends on which one is the active one.
Cheers,
Norman.
(At work - I now work for the UK government
FUBAR = F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition.
FOOBAR is a 'soundalike' used by programmers as an in-joke.
Foo() and Bar() are the programmers example functions which seem to have
stuck around for a long time now.
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systems !
He's no longer the technical director - he didn't have any technical
knowlege at all.
I'm no longer the Oracle DBA there either - I work for myself now. :o)
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The bit that puzzles me is the fact that it is written in Java, but
described as 'fast' and named 'Hypersonic'. Must be a different Java to
the one I've been used to. All Java applications are s...l...o...w !
:o)
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I was reading the archives and noticed that Rich Mellor was after a copy
of my BlackHole device driver - the one which 'does nothing' as someone
succinctly put it - and I was wondering if he (Rich) had managed to get
hold of a copy of the source.
Cheers,
Norm.
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have)
On that note, could I use it in freeQDOS? (Please?)
Ffibys...
Of course you can.
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Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Actually it is my belief that it should be part of the OS (as a nul device
like most OSes have)
Erm, what's wrong with SMSQ/E's NUL device?
Marcel
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Greetings Earthlings.
I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list.
I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again.
Here's hoping
Cheers,
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
Greetings Earthlings.
I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list.
I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again.
Here's hoping
Cheers,
Norman.
Yippee
It finally works !
(I suppose it's considered 'strange' to reply to one's
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-)
Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web
archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet.
This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o)
Cheers,
Norman.
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-)
Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web
archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet.
This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o)
Cheers,
Norman
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