[Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise
Hi folks, just wanted to report that the next issue of QL Today is under preparation. It will have 48 pages and will come again with a bonus DVD. Urs König is preparing the DVD and he reported it to be full. All issues of QL Today (including the next one itself) will be on the DVD in digital form and - a surprise: QPC2 Version 4 will be on the DVD - thanks to Marcel Kilgus in full version. Plus loads of other material - Urs was quite busy. I have reduced the subscription rate on http://smsq.j-m-s.com - if you don't want to miss issue 4, then you can still subscribe to the current volume and get all 4 issues in one go as soon as it is ready. Please note that the latest date to place your order is the 30st of August - I need to know the total print run by then. I will not be able to produce any re-prints as I used to do this in the past at the time of the next issue print, but as we will not have a next issue, it will not be feasible (costs are too high). I am very glad that we finished this volume properly with a positive big bang issue and not finish half-way or disappear like several other projects in the past did. It has been a great time and I want to thank everybody who helped in the past 17 years - editors, authors and readers! So don't miss the very final issue! Who knows, it may well be a collector's item in some years - and one thing is for sure: there won't be many! Jochen ps: the end of QL Today does not mean that I give up the QL! And if you like to use QPC, you may find that QPCPrint is something you need as well :-) Available from J-M-S, of course! -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Fwd: QL Today v16.2
... mail from George Gwilt: Hi Jochen My copy arrived in Edinburgh before 11th December. I could not put this information to the QL users group because none of my emails sent to them are now getting through. Bruce Nicholls is currently trying to correct his but with no success so far. Perhaps you could tell the group that Edinburgh was among the first to get QL Today. Thanks George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] The next issue of QL Today will soon be on its way :-)
We (the QL Today team) are glad to announce that the current issue will be ready earlier than scheduled. Issue 2 of Volume 16 just went to the printer and will be shipped in two or three days ... and hopefully will reach all of the readers well before Xmas! Jam-packed 46 pages of interesting articles covering many different topics! You can still subscribe, of course, and get issue 2 as well as issue 1 including the DVD. Cover image and subscription form can be found on the JMS SMSQ homepage. Best regards Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Today Issue 2 Volume 15
... is on its way to all its readers. The German issues were sent from Germany, all the other ones from Austria - yesterday! 40 pages this time (25% more than promised). Interesting to see how long it will take this time... I printed LETTER - LETTRE - BRIEF bold and large above the address, hope this helps on the delivering side. Best regards Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Issue 2 Volume 15
I hope you enjoy it and it takes more than one cup of tea ;-) Just registered to your board - quick and easy... The past few weeks were a total rush (partly, to get QL Today out in time) ... but now I'll hope to be a bit more active again. Cheers Jochen peet vanpeebles wrote: Arrived today, looking forward to settling down with a cup of tea or hopefully a beer and having a good read. Peter. --- On Wed, 15/12/10, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com wrote: From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Today Issue 2 Volume 15 To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Wednesday, 15 December, 2010, 8:51 ... is on its way to all its readers. The German issues were sent from Germany, all the other ones from Austria - yesterday! 40 pages this time (25% more than promised). Interesting to see how long it will take this time... I printed LETTER - LETTRE - BRIEF bold and large above the address, hope this helps on the delivering side. Best regards Jochen ___ 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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] IQLR
John Taylor wrote: Tony said It was a really sad end to IQLR. Bob closed the publication just after he had received advanced payment for my year's ads (and others I think). He must have been in real trouble. BobD was in trouble with the bank. They waited until all the renewals came in, then they closed him. That is how they always do it. Bob got the blame for closing when he did. Bob got the blame because he ensured and repeated many times that nothing could happen to the money as it was a safe (Escrow?) account, if I remember this correctly. And we all know the word for taking money KNOWING that you will not be able to deliver. And not wanting to know about debt is not an excuse. If you start something and you do it properly for many years - then why not finish it properly, and not with lies? Things can go wrong, but at least be honest about them. However, there's always a positive side (at least I hope it was) as QL Today was born: Stuart Honeyball and I decided we had to do something immediately, and so we did :-) Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] IQLR
thank you very much :-D Jochen gdgqler wrote: On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:33, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: However, there's always a positive side (at least I hope it was) as QL Today was born: Stuart Honeyball and I decided we had to do something immediately, and so we did :-) And that was an amazingly good step forward for which we must all be grateful. George ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today
I wonder too if it works - and how - especially as the fonts I use are licensed to my Calamus serial number. If anyone wants to have a go - I am happy to provide a small CDK file containing only a few pages, to keep it small. Cheers Jochen Norman Dunbar wrote: 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, complex program. According to the Scribus WIKI, Calamus files can be read into Scribus. http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/File_formats_that_should_be_supported_by_Scribus_%28wish_list%29 So you should be able to continue creating QL Today in calamus and have **someone else** with the time and inclination, create a Scribus file from your calamus output. Wonder if it works? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK
Hi Peter, seems to be - you all issues except the ones to Germany were mailed at the same time, same post office (of course). March and June issues seemed to have arrived quickly at all destinations. I still don't think the Austrian post office stores the issues for different times before they get delivered to the various countries - the earlier they get them over the border, the earlier they have space again (at least that sounds logical to me). Anyway, I am sure it will arrive in the UK sooner (and hopefully not too much later). Cheers Jochen Peter Baily wrote: Hi Jochen! No new issue has yet arrived here. It seems the channel is still a big barrier in spite of the tunnel! Peter Baily ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL
Hi Davide, as far as I am aware, the EPL-7100 and EPL-8100 were the last models which supported full ESC/P compatibility. Later models (all ending in x200 or higher) had a more limited set, or no compatibility at all. I remember that one of my German customers (was it Ralf Reköndt?? - Ralf reads here so he will know) had one of the more recent models and we wrote about it several times ... I do not remember if he was happy at all with the printer. I looked at laser printers some years ago and discovered that some Brother Lasers supported EPSON ESC/P and were REALLY cheap too! Maybe that would be an option for your friend to look at? Cheers Jochen Davide Santachiara wrote: I was asked by a friend whether the Epson EPL-6200 laser printer (which shall support fx codes) is compatible with QL systems and software. I have a very old EPL-5200 which was compatible but I do not have any idea about this EPL-6200. I found in old emails some references to this printer as a possible choice but either they referred to the usage with Proforma or they did not give a real answer. Anybody has experience on this? Thank you Davide ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future
Hi Norman, My Articles in QL Toady are a mystery to me. Not that I don't know what I'm writing (well, most of the time I do!) but the lack of feedback from almost everyone in the entire world - I sometimes feel that I'm writing for three people - Me, George and a chap called Hugh Rooms who called me to task some time back and made a contribution to the Assembly series. It is at least for FOUR people - I read it when I lay it out and enjoy reading it, by the way :-) Every time I ask for feedback, the silence is deafening. It is generally very hard to get feedback, and it was already hard 10 years ago. One last point, no-one makes money from the QL any more do they? It's a hobby now, that's all. I would think so too. I enjoy doing the magazine and hope to add my share to keep the QL scene alive... as you will be able to see when the new issue will arrive (all posted, so you should have it sooner or later ... except from the visitors of the Vienna show who got it personally delivered), I have not raised the price, and added extra pages as well. Fewer subscribers mean, the costs per issue increase - the amount of time I have to spend remains the same. And yes, it's a hobby for me too. I still think QL Today is a kind of glue which keeps us QLers together. I am sorry I cannot pay for the articles, and I am sorry I don't earn money from the QL anymore (when I did many, many years ago, it was a rather more enjoyable time than it is now in some cases, but money has to come in somehow...) ... and the advertisers merely pay and paid in the past years for the copying costs of their advertising page (nothing to earn there too). And, as Marcel wrote to Rich's mail - I also feel when I put things about my own products into Wikis, it could be regarded as self-advertising. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Austrian pictures
Thanks for the pictures, Tony ... and a BIG THANKS to Gerhard, Karl and Franz for having this meeting organised. Everybody who wasn't there did really miss something. It was good to see many we have not met for years - it has been really a great weekend :-) Cheers Jochen Tony Firshman wrote: A bit over 300 are on http://tfs.firshman.co.uk/ql/photos.htm Tony -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Vienna show - first pictures online...
Hi Urs, Who calls this summer? We don't, definitely not! The May was the worst May I can remember. It did not rain much today here in Vienna. Weather should improve in general towards the weekend. There were serious weather warnings for the Salzburg/Berchtesgaden area yesterday and today. I had a safe but wet journey today and will stay the night in in Salzburg (the city of Mozart). Yes, our journey was wet too ... enjoy staying at Salzburg - we like this city very much too and look forward to being there again this autumn. Wish you a safe journey for tomorrow and see you Saturday! Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 in Vienna - More News
Hi to all, does anybody know who will be visiting the show? As far as I can tell, there's Marcel Kilgus and Tony Firshman and Tony Tebby and Wolfgang Lenerz and, of course, myself. I won't come on my own, it looks as if I will bring the next issue 4, Volume 14 of QL Today with me :-) I will bring all of them, so whoever wants to pick it up there with a last-minute travel-decision will be able to get it. As my wife and I stay there for about a week, I can't bring all the usual stuff which you may remember from past shows (as part of the car will be filled). I'll bring some QPCs and QPCPrints, which I can prepare at the show. If you want ANYTHING ELSE, please let me know in advance so that I can bring it for you. I guess I'll be at the show most of Saturday (main day?) and, of course, Sunday ... also for the train event! Looking forward to another great show and hoping to see many of you there, best regards Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 - Latest News
Hi Gerhard, Hi to all interested in coming to the meeting in june :) I add some pictures at http://KuEl.org; so it may be much easy to find the location :o) That is very useful - thanks a lot :-) I Hope to see most of you at the meeting... Me too - it has been a long time ... Jochen Gerhard -- Anton Preinsack schrieb: Hi to all, don´t forget the International QL-Meeting 2010 in my home-country Austria (Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th of june 2010). The event is organized by Gerhard Plavec and I am sure, that it will be a great and interesting meeting. (Infos: http://kuel.org/) I have two news for the meeting: First: Thanks to Daniele Terdina I am allowed to show a Beta-version of the forthcoming Qemulator for MacOSX! I think this is great news for all MacOSX-users in the QL-world (like me;-)), as the emulator looks very promising, even in Beta-stage. Secondly: If all goes well I will shortly be proud owner of a Q40-system (thanks to Rich Mellor and Derek Steward, who tries to fix the board at the moment) and will show it on the QL-Meeting, too. Hopefully this will interest more people in real QL-hardware. You know that I started a little initiative for a new production-run of Q60s. Although it isn´t 100% sure, that there will a last production run (some parts of the Q60 are hard to find in the meantime and Derek would have to solder and test all boards alone, which is a huge task) there is still hope for new Q60s. See you in Austria! Greetings, Anton ___ 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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3
Is Frank Fritz from Köln in this newslist or does anyone know him? His issue of QL Today was returned undeliverable. Did he move recently? Thanks for any help, Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to all the readers
Hi John, glad to read it has arrived. Considering the fact that I sent the magazine several times from Austria in the past few years and it usually arrived within 6 or 10 days, I guess the Xmas delay was an exception due to Xmas, and it variied depending on the destination. Enjoy the read! Cheers Jochen John Gilpin wrote: QL Today arrived in Manchester, UK this morning. Many thanks. - will read it in bed tonight.! Regards to all, John Gilpin. On 15/03/2010 15:14, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: Hi everybody, the current issue went to the post on Friday evening (for readers in Germany) and this morning to all the other readers (mailed from here in Austria). Let's see how fast it reaches you this time. This time we added even more extra pages (you know, 32 pages were planned when the pricing was done), but you can expect a massive 44 pages issue with very, very interesting articles :-)) Cheers Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to all the readers
As Herb Schaaf was looking for 'true' randomness on page 6, may I suggest that QL Today delivery date be used as the basis for 'true' randomness? Or rather, the randomness of the various postal services involved? Well, we can see a bundle of arrivals today ... not too random, it seems. Otherwise, Jochen or Geoff (will the guilty one please stand up!) might have unintentionally started another 'random' generator with the spelling of my name - a quick glance through the mag (cover, contents list, news and page 17 article) reveals 3 different spellings so far - who can work out the correct spelling (clue: my signature below...)? ;-)) Oh dear! Well, there's me laying it out, Bruce and Geoff doing the proof-reading. I guess we're all guilty then. (Actually, not a bad issue at all!) I thought so too when I brought it to the printer :-) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to all the readers
Hi everybody, the current issue went to the post on Friday evening (for readers in Germany) and this morning to all the other readers (mailed from here in Austria). Let's see how fast it reaches you this time. This time we added even more extra pages (you know, 32 pages were planned when the pricing was done), but you can expect a massive 44 pages issue with very, very interesting articles :-)) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2 v3.33 - Formatting a Win Drive
Hi Rich, Why do you allow WIN1_ to be formatted when you then format WIN3_ ?? Cheers Jochen Rich Mellor wrote: I am running QPC2 v3.33 under Windows 7 (64 bit). I have just tried to create a new hard disk drive (first time in years) I have pointed WIN3 to D:\test\qxl.win and created a windows folder called D:\test I then start up QPC2 WIN_FORMAT 1 FORMAT win3_10 gives access denied. What am I missing? -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator
Tony Firshman wrote: Marcel Kilgus wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: I was looking at Qspread, but no-one pointed out that it requires smsq/e with high colour drivers. Probably because it isn't true ;) It requires an up-to-date PE however. Jochen says it does! I am glad he did really, as it triggered my ALTKey solution for Abacus. Hmmm, I remember there were problems when a customer tried to run it without using SMSQ/E. I don't know, however, if he used the up-to-date PE ... and I am not 100% sure that QMenu would work on such systems, since it was changed to require hi-colour some years ago by Bernd. I will talk to Marcel about it. Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Anniversaries
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Anton Preinsack wrote: Have you received my Amiga-disks? Not yet. Talking of snailmail, I've received my QL Today the last day in December. No channel between Austria and Switzerland ... ;-) Maybe the post to the UK went through the Channel Tunnel... One wonders what some other postal services did with the letter for another week or so in some cases. Good luck with your new job! From me too!! Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday
great! I am glad all the mags arrive now :-) Not quite :o( The surviving reindeer must have taken umbrage QLY arrived today! (Hence the new name ;o) Per I'm glad to read this :-) Let's see how the post will be doing next time. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday
Hello François, great! I am glad all the mags arrive now :-) However, I had more feedback from subscribers who received them BEFORE xmas. It really depends on the DELIVERING post, not on the Austrian post (well, there's no point in them piling the letters somewhere instead of handing them over to the delivery postal service). I also had a REGISTERED letter from France which took exactly 4 weeks to arrive ... amazing! Cheers Jochen Hi QLtoday arrived half an hour ago. François Van Emelen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday
Hi Per, I'm sure it will arrive. There's one thing to learn from this: mid of Dec seems to be too late. This year, the Dec issue should be out beginning of Dec, to avoid this situation. Jochen P Witte wrote: SMSQ - Jochen Merz writes: Hello François, great! I am glad all the mags arrive now :-) Not quite :o( The surviving reindeer must have taken umbrage Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
Hello Adrian, I am sorry to say that what YOU write about Royal mail is true for Deutsche Post too. They save on everything you can imagine: they took thousands of postboxes away, so that millions of customers have to go/drive longer routes to put their letters into boxes (and then they tell us something about green post). Last summer, they did not deliver post on Mondays (as an attempt to save, and see how the people reacted). Large letters and parcels without even a single delivery attempt happened here too several times. There was too much to carry, was the apology after my complaint. Well, if they reduce the number of postman every other month, there IS probably too much at some stage. I call this FRAUD, as I pay for the delivery. And - I have to drive through half the city to pick up the goods as they removed this facility from the local post office. When I catched a postman putting the card in (which said I was not at home) and NOT having the item with him, I reported this to the local TV and press and got the item delivered manually... and that has not happened to me anymore. And you think the UK postal services are bad... I guess that is fact more or less everywhere where the customer does not count anymore... Cheers Jochen Adrian D. Ives wrote: Jochen, Still no sign of QL Today here in Manchester, but I have to say that, for me, the Royal Mail no longer serves any useful purpose. After all, if you have a postal service that doesn't deliver the post, that leaves red cards without even trying to deliver the parcels that they never took out on the van in the first place, then they should simply cease to exist. I'm afraid that the Royal Mail is now the very epitome of what the United Kingdom has become over these last fifteen years: a bureaucratic nanny state where the only thing that matters is making up new rules and finding new ways of not providing a service to the customer. Anyway, new year rant over! Regards and a belated Happy New Year to all. Adrian --- On Friday, January 1, 2010, 1:36:01 PM, Jochen wrote: SJM I'm a bit surprised that there has been no comment about the SJM QL Today issue 2 which I sent out middle of December - or was SJM the post too slow to deliver before Xmas? ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
... sorry, can't follow you here, Tony. Maybe clarification in a PM? Cheers Jochen Tony Firshman wrote: Tony Firshman wrote, On 4/01/10 11:34: SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote, On 1/01/10 13:36: Thanks Dilwyn may I wish the same to you and all the others on the list too. 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? Arrived in Tring - not read yet. Read my article. re Jochen's comments. The password is c**f* - of course I know 'f*' exists (8-)# ( ed out as I am sure this group gets archived somewhere) ... hence the comment about exactly that dish at the restaurant. Jochen - you should have asked! Tony -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
Hi Sjef, Any chance for another Eindhoven meeting this year? I hope for a meeting end April and the beginning of October. I will try my best but it isn't sure yet. That sounds good. But please not the first weekend in October - this is usually combined with a bank holiday in Germany. I guess the post services in Europe have cut down their services over the years and are not able to handle christmas post properly anymore. There does not seem to be any logic behind who's received it and who hasn't. A few hours after my message QLToday arrived here. That's good to read - I get more and more arrivals. Still a very long time from mid-december ... but I guess that's down to the xmas season. We plan to have the next issue ready for the readers mid-March ... but we do need your articles and feedback, please!!! Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
Hi Sjef, hope are well, or at least health is improving. Any chance for another Eindhoven meeting this year? And - I got a few more reports from QL Today which have already arrived, Germany and even France. And, even the mail to Canada to Jim Hunkins arrived BEFORE Xmas. I guess the post services in Europe have cut down their services over the years and are not able to handle christmas post properly anymore. There does not seem to be any logic behind who's received it and who hasn't. Oh, and, surprise, surprise, Deutsche Post has raised the postage for the magazine to any European destination except for Germany by only 13.33% as of yesterday. Well, somebody has to pay for the managers... Jochen sjef...@iae.nl wrote: Hi Folks, At first I wish you all a Happy New Year ! 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? Jochen Nothing has arrived in he Netherlands. Sjef van de Molengraaf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year
Thanks Dilwyn may I wish the same to you and all the others on the list too. 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? Jochen Dilwyn Jones wrote: May I be the first to wish the entire QL community a very happy new year! Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] International QL meeting 2010 in Austria
Great! We are rather flexible and are able to come both Friday and Saturday, assuming at least one of them is the main day (with the visit to the railroad museum) :-) Cheers Jochen Marcel Kilgus wrote: Gerhard Plavec wrote: If you are interested by the meeting 2010 please have a look at http://kuel.org; Wow, 4 days even, that sounds quite ambitious. Anyway, I could see myself going on vacation for a few days near Vienna with my girlfriend, but then I'd only participate on one day of QLing max. Saturday perhaps if that's the main day. Cheers, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] The next issue of QL is nearly ready to be shipped.....
... and will be shipped next week from Austria as scheduled. This time, 25% extra pages, as we have another extremely interesting article from Tony Tebby ... and, of course, part 2 of the QL Rom Myths (really breathtaking). If you have not subscribed yet, then it's not too late: issue 1 of the current volume is still available. If you order online within the next few days and pay by credit card, then it will leave together with the others and may reach you even before Xmas. Enjoy reading!! Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Test (Please ignore)
ignored :-) Anton Preinsack wrote: ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The best date...
Hello Gerhard, As you know (or not), I like robots beside of computers - I just learned that the Eurobot-event (look at eurobot.org - www.swisseurobot.ch) takes place end of mai 2010 in Rapperswil (Switzerland), so it is ok for me to have the QL-meeting in june... Oh, Rapperswil - just at the opposite side of Pfäffikon, where the nice Alpamare is located :-) Looking at the votings, we are ready to have our QL-meeting in june: Do you have some preferencies ? (friday+WE or WE+monday or no WE at all ?) I have no calendar with Feiertag church festival/bank holiday ? Thank you for telling me, if you have a particular liking 3rd of June: Fronleichnam (AT+D) That's the only bank holiday I'm aware of. Could possibly help some visitor creating a long weekend for travelling. As I have voted for June only, it's only fair that I'm not difficult about any dates in this month. We have no plans for June at all, so I go along with whatever the others prefer. We know from the past 20 years or so, that more people can make it over the weekend. Hotels often give better deals if you include a weekend etc. Don't know about airfares ... maybe people should let you know how they plan to attend? Plane, car, train...? I assume it could be better to put it on a weekend, as more people may find it easier to free one or two days around a weekend for travelling than 3 or 4 days within a week. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive
I can confirm that it works too. If you plug in two USB floppy disks, the first becomes A: and the second B: ... quite the way it should be. I wonder what happens if you plug in a third one :-))) Jochen Adrian D. Ives wrote: fyi. I'm running both emulators under Vista on a Sony VAIO laptop with no onboard floppy drive, so USB is the only option. --- On Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:04:03 PM, I wrote: ADI Rich, ADI Yes, they both work. QPC2 treats the drive as a native QDOS floppy ADI right away. With Q-emuLator you have to mount it as a QDOS floppy on ADI one of the MDV slots, but it works. ADI Regards, ADI Adrian ADI --- ADI On Monday, October 12, 2009, 6:54:33 PM, Rich wrote: RM Can anyone please confirm that both QPC2 and q-emulator will work with a RM USB floppy disk drive - I am looking to upgrade my PC, but most of them RM don't have built in floppy disk drives any more :-( RM Rich RM ___ RM QL-Users Mailing List RM http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files
Hi Norman, first, congratulations on getting maried - or is it your first anniversary yet! ;-) Thanks ... getting close to a year soon :-) 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. Very good - we all love surprises, I believe, as long as they are positive ones :-) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files
P.S. The 'new look' magazine is fine; even if a bit thinner it has not lost any of its quality. Thank you. I did some tests and it really feels thinner because of the 80g cover paper instead of the 160g. However, using 160g would mean: losing more pages. Actually, the way it is, it was heavier than 100g anyway... but as I sent it from Austria, it was affordable. (the subscription price only works out by sending it from Austria... or send a package to the UK and have most items sent from there). The font is still pretty large compared with some magazines. I wonder if other European post offices have started charging by size as well as weight like Royal Mail. If so, a thicker A5 format might work out cheaper to post than A4 for the same weight. Well, it took Royal Mail a long time to catch up with Deutsche Post. They started to charge by size many years ago (everything greater C-long triples the price, no matter if it is 5g or 500g ... no matter if it is A4 or A5 ... and then by thickness ... if thicker than 1cm, you go for 4 times the price). This, however, does not apply to the Austrian post, luckily. I will send the issues before Xmas from Austria, and mid of March as well, so it is not a serious problem for the next two issues. Also, adding 2 or 4 pages will not be a major problem either. So send in your contributions as well, please :-)) I think we have done a fairly good decision as well, being able to drop the price slightly (instead of having to raise it considerably, as we skipped last year)... and considering that 13 years ago, when QL Today started, 12 or 14 of the 56 pages or so were ads ... which they aren't nowadays ... Again, please send in your contributions, as Tony's next part of the article won't fill a whole issue ... and we still want to have a good mix, even with fewer pages. Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article
Hi Dilwyn, (Hope you understand I was only teasing you, not complaining) Of course, of course - your complaints arrive directly in my personal mailbox :-) Actually, 12 months' worth of mail redirection is in use anyway, so it turned up with an extra label superimposed by the post office. Useful feature ... I will make sure the label won't be required next issue. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article
More surprises to come in the next part :-) Dilwyn Jones wrote: QL Today has just arrived, today, in Edinburgh. In a week nor so copies will have reached Iceland I suppose. I hope they find Tony Tebby's fantastic article as amusing as I did. And yet we are all still using QL's in one form or another. George Still using QLs is one thing. The fact that a QL worked at all and even got launched is quite something, after reading Tony's article! Actually, it's a lesson in how project management worked (or not) in those days. I look forward to future installments of this series. -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article
Thanks John :-) Yes, you change addresses everywhat except for in your own database. This is not the first time it has happened to me, sorry, Dilwyn. Cheers Jochen John Gilpin wrote: It must be something to do with us editors being overworked, Dilwyn. I almost did the same thing or didn't you notice there were two address labels on your QUANTA Magazine this time (one on top of the other - piggybacked if they were rom chips?) - perhaps the extra weight caused the damage to the envelope that you reported!! :-) Well, now we know we have you in the address database with your NEW Address, it will go OK next month. Us editors must stick together Jochen!! :-) Cheers, John G. Dilwyn Jones wrote: Finally, a little mischievous dig: JMS kindly published my new address on page 6, then sent the magazine to the old address! He he ;-)) Dilwyn Jones ___ 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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files
Well, I brought ALL issues of ALL our readers (Bruces and mine) to the post last Tuesday in Austria, so they should arrive every day. Strange that they made it quicker half way through Germany to Ralf than to Marcel in the South. I have had already some inquiries: this issue is the start of volume 14, there's more from Tony to come (and it is VERY interesting, promised). I still have a few spare issues here with me, so everybody who would like to subscribe now can get the full volume, starting with the current issue, of course. If you fax the subscription form or subscribe via the SSL form on the SMSQ website, then I am happy to mail the issue from here this week :-) Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Ah, I was asking myself, whether noone has read it .? Cheers...Ralf From: Marcel Kilgus Ralf Reköndt wrote: I just have received Vol14 Issue 1 of QL-Today. Oh dear, I have eaten the 11 pages of Tony's first article in a rush...just to find out that I want more. Damn, it didn't arrive her in time, starting very early tomorrow I'll be away for a week. Well, will have to wait for that one then :( Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Hi Sjef, thanks a lot, and good to hear from you :-) Any chance for QL shows in Eindhoven next year? You know, it's not only us who miss them ... I've had several people writing to me who miss it! Cheers Jochen sjef...@iae.nl wrote: SMSQ schreef: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. My congratulations to both of you too! Also on behalf of SIN_QL_AIR. Sjef van de Molengraaf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks Frank, and all the best to you and your family too :-) Jochen Frank-Guido Dibowski wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I bet some of you did not know Jochen and Andrea have got married. Jochen and Andrea, my best wishes for your mariage. After 10 years and three children together with my girlfriend, i go the same way last year! have a happy and long life together! :-D Frank My english is not the best but i work on it! ;-) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Darren Branagh wrote: On 9/9/09, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com wrote: Thanks, Darren :-) (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had! Indeed!!! Fairly Sure It was the Canada Show - Montreal. I think so too. Probably the day Marcel and I *WALKED* back from the city ... not being able to find any reasonable fast food ... Sorry guys... private joke, You had to be there!! :-)) Yes, impossible to explain. Even better though was Myself, Roy Wood, Tony and Jim Hunkins all going into a Gay Bar by mistake, but deciding to stay once we saw the range of beers they served!! The barman was trying desperately to work out who was with who as it were, and I ended up having to show him how to pull a pint of guinness properly.. Great times. THEN it was this day - we were way too tired after the walk and/or to join in. Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Hi Malcolm, yes ... amazing how fast time goes by... Cheers Jochen Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4aa6b191.9030...@j-m-s.com, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com writes Hi Jochen, Already approaching the first anniversary then ... :-) Thanks ... hehee, it wasn't THAT recent - last November, actually :-) Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4aa68ced.6050...@j-m-s.com, SMSQ s...@j-m-s.com writes Hi Jochen, Congratulations on your recent marriage ... and have a happy life together. Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I bet some of you did not know Jochen and Andrea have got married. Ah Jochen, always mystic...;-) Jochen Andrea, my honest congratulations for your marriage. I wish you both a lucky and healthy life together! Cheers...Ralf -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks, Darren :-) (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had! I believe JM means something different, as Tony Tebby can tell in one of the next issues of QL Today. Cheers Jochen Darren Branagh wrote: Well, you've heard or JM ROM's. This was definitely a JochenMerz ROMance :-)) Congratulations Jochen and Andrea - The very best luck to you both - as we say in Irish Go maire tú an lá, agus Bail ó Dhia ort. Take care, Darren. On 9/8/09, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: - Original Message - From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show Your job then :-) Too late for the upcoming issue, but plenty of time for the Xmas issue Dilwyn Jones wrote: Now all we need is a suitable cartoon in QL Today ;-) How about: Jochen Merz accused of bigamy - he was already married to the QL Dilwyn Jones ___ 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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks Jim, I am amazed nearly nobody knew about our marriage ... up to you to make it to Switzerland for the meeting :-) CheersJochen James Hunkins wrote: Congratulations! jim On 08-09-2009, at 12:57 PM, SMSQ wrote: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I bet some of you did not know Jochen and Andrea have got married. Ah Jochen, always mystic...;-) Jochen Andrea, my honest congratulations for your marriage. I wish you both a lucky and healthy life together! Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks again ... let's hope we can meet at an Eindhoven show next year then :-) Cheers Jochen François Van Emelen wrote: SMSQ schreef: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Congratulations to both of you! François Van Emelen SNIP ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks ... hehee, it wasn't THAT recent - last November, actually :-) Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4aa68ced.6050...@j-m-s.com, SMSQ s...@j-m-s.com writes Hi Jochen, Congratulations on your recent marriage ... and have a happy life together. Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I bet some of you did not know Jochen and Andrea have got married. Ah Jochen, always mystic...;-) Jochen Andrea, my honest congratulations for your marriage. I wish you both a lucky and healthy life together! Cheers...Ralf -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show
Thanks as well ... yes, it's been a long time since we met last time (Italy...?). We both look forward to seeing you again too. Cheers Jochen The Dents wrote: Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got married. Cheers Jochen Congratulations from Jon. an Elisabeth too. Looking forward to seeing you in Lucerne. Jon. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] J-M-S Update website
Hi everybody, just wanted to inform you that Wolfgang's latest update (fix of SMSQ/E GC/SGC Aurora with Home Directory) is alreday on the JMS Update page available - and so is the latest QPAC2, of course. Best regardsJochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet
Dear John, Sorry to learn of your bad news (not being at Byfleet) and both Sarah I wish you a speedy recovery. Thanks a lot. There won't be a kind of recovery, I have to live with it like I did in the past. Hoping to get it down to a level like 3 or 5 years ago. Yes, please ask about postage and let me know - if I get these items from our local Computer fair, Prices are way in excess of yours and it costs me £3 to get into the Fair in the first place!! ... OK, explained in a private mail to you sent some minutes ago. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet
Hi Malcolm, I am sorry to hear that you cannot make it to Byfleet. Although I hope that you get fit again soon. Thanks a lot. Just back from Eindhoven. Bernd and myself are quite keen on coming to the UK next year. Hopefully Marcel has finished his diploma by then and can join in as well. Hope to see you all soon again, cheersJochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet
Hi everybody, just wanted to say that I'll be at the Eindhoven QL meeting tomorrow, Saturday - same venue as always (St. Joris College, Eindhoven, NL). Will bring the usual range, but if you want anything special please let me know today. QL Today will hopefully be ready for Byfleet. I had a bad cold last week, and headache/migrane often 4 or 5 days in a week (including today), therefore I am behind the planned schedule. Will try to do my best, as always. Now the bad news: I was planning to come to Byfleet together with Bernd Reinhardt. Bernd told me yesterday that he can't make it... he's got the workers in his house (new pipes, new bathrooms for him and the flats he rents out) and the schedule here is way behind schedule, he said. Missing parts are supposed to arrive any time in the next two, three weeks - so he has to be present and definitely can't be away for that long weekend. I may have mentioned it before, with my current health situation, travelling long distances on my own is impossible. I am very, very sorry having to say that ... and we both hope to be able to make it to Hove and/or Byfleet next year. Sorry Ken, sorry John (can't bring the items as discussed ... if you think it makes sense to ship them, I'll find out about postage), sorry to everybody coming to the show and expecting me to be there. Fortunately, you can get all of the JMS products from Roy. All the best, see you either at Eindhoven tomorrow or hopefully next year, Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Eindhoven meeting next Saturday, 17th of June
Dear QLer, the next Eindhoven meeting is coming up, and JMS will be there! I will bring the standard range of products, QL Today back-issues etc. ... and if you have not renewed for Volume 11, there's a good chance to do so! The usual range of CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs etc., empty cases and some EPSON and Canon replacement inks will be available. Hope to see you on Saturday, best regards Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] ***
That was too clever by far. I don't think we choose where we live by street names (8-)# I didn't realise winkel was corner, or indeed the meaning of his surname. March translates to März, not Merz! The name Merz comes from Merzeler... which was a name for small traders several hundred years ago. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E
To be PRECISE, DP holds (or held, or whatever the situation might be) the right to sell the ENGLISH version of QMON. The agreement version with TT was that I can continue selling QMON/JMON with German manuals, and do upgrades from QMON to JMON for both languages. Jochen Marcel Kilgus wrote: Ralf Reköndt wrote: I am afraid, he can't, as Qmon is owned by Freddy Vaccha, as far as I know. A QJump program owned by Freddy? Anyway, I have no intentions of releasing it in any way, there's probably less than a handful of people that could have a use for it. I myself only use it to debug the core and screen drivers (and even there I've managed to do that for 8 years without it! I've created this only fairly recently). Everything else I do with jmon. Much more exciting would be a functional smon, but it'd need a hell lot more work before it'd be finished. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange
Maybe you should try fiddling with the Extended properties of the printer, e.g. disable the spooler and send contents directly to the printer. I had to do this to connect an EPSON POS printer, program it via QPC and get immediate reaction on every byte sent to the printer. Jochen Bill Waugh wrote: - Original Message - From: Ralf Reköndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange I have tried to print in XChange Archive via QPCprint. Unfortunately, XChange seems to let the PAR port open after the first lprint. So, nothing happens (here!) until Archive is abandonned. Then, QPCprint poped up but there were just a few lines every page, but this could be a problem with the used archive program. Any idea, to print continously? Cheers...Ralf R. I've been having much the same problem Ralf with Archive, some? output gets sent to Windows spooler but gets no further. same goes for printing from Sbasic It used to work ok with Windows 98, I now have Windows XP, I'm wondering if this is the cause. All the best - Bill ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange
Hi Bill, no, confusion. Ralf asked about programming, not the Windows settings. I referred to the Windows settings. Try right-clicking the printer, properties, Advanced or Extended or whatever (I can't tell, I've got a German Windows) and there you can disable the spooling. Nothing to do with programming. I just MENTIONED that *I* had to do this to get my ESC/POS printer working, i.e. reacting on every byte sent without having to open and close the port all the time. Cheers Jochen Bill Waugh wrote: - Original Message - From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange Hi Ralf, do you have printers which you program in ESC/POS? It is a language similar to ESC/P2, very much reduced in many ways, and extended to handle small forms, forward and reverse feed, turning the print direction in 90 degrees steps, paper cut commands and much more ... provided you have an (EPSON) POS printer. Cheers Jochen Don't think so Jochen, cant remember anything in the handbook to that effect. I do have another printer that I was given that I intend to try it is an Epson 1200 (wide carriage ) I will have a look in the handbook of that one tommorow although the handbook are not extensive to say the least. All the best - bill ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] screenshoots
I have the impression Tesco.net's spamfilter is not properly working ... My mails to other tesco.net users bounced back, correctly written, but tesco.net reported wrong errors. I tried sending from different SMTPs which were not blacklisted (at least not in public databases). If you were using an account from 11, for example, you may find that many mails bounced as the IP of the main SMTP of 11 and many neighbourhood IPs were blacklisted in various public lists, including Spamcop (for several days until yesterday). Jochen Ralf Reköndt wrote: Tony, I also get a lot (if not all) mails to the mentioned address back. But there is another one, Dilwyn may tell us. Sending via his site seems to be safe. Cheers...Ralf R. - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman censored To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] screenshoots On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 at 11:45:17, P Witte wrote: (ref: censored) Per/ Is there any way of reaching you by email? All my attempts have been rebuffed. If you were using dilwyn DOT jones AT tesco DOT net then your plea is in vain, as that is the address he is using on this list. Otherwise us this one, of course. Tony ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quill Makeover
It was publicly available, not just for Quanta members. In fact, Erling Jacobsen and Gunther Strube wrote in the readme file We hope that you will enjoy XCHANGE - and - it is YOUR responsibility to distribute XCHANGE to every QL user you know! The full archives were available on the JMS BBS and can now be obtained on the BBS-CD I offered some time ago in QL Today, at the time the BBS was shut down. Jochen John Taylor wrote: When ever Erling Jacobsen did an update to Quill he gave it to Quanta Library. John Taylor On 8 Nov 2005, at 00:33, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Anyway, anybody know why the new Quill is supposed to be Quanta-only? Marcel ___ 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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] The QL is an adult computer conference
I also had problems sleeping on Friday night due to the noise from the heating system (I had left my window open all evening so the temperature itself was okay). Saturday night wasn't so bad, which probably had something to do with getting to bed late after consuming plenty of Guinness and red wine before/during/after the evening meal! Indeed - there was a heating problem. Other than that, I had a great time. Yes. Two comments: 1) We could have done with more space in the main room on Saturday. Yes. It would have helped if the air in the room had been a bit better too, but that was probably also down to the heating/failing climate control. Although it was said that on Saturday, 42 visitors were present, it looked a bit empty due to the talks. Maybe it was also that I missed some of the usual visitors from abroad ... I think except for Marcel and myself, there was no one from abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Ireland etc) Even so, I met new faces to names which I had not met during the 20 years in the past :-) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Which game would you like to be writen ?
PSII: Are there any QL User in Germany left, of even an Club of QL Partys ? A few like me are still around and somewhat active. There has even been a meeting once a year, but this year it looks like it won't happen again. Therefore the nearest location for me was Eindhoven. I spoke to Friedemann, who has organised the QL meetings in Berchtesgaden in the past 4 years or so about 4 or 5 weeks ago. it looks like is fact now :-( There was no feedback whatsoever to Friedemann or us at QL Today, so why bother? Sad, as I would also be there this year (we always planned our stay in that area around this date after Friedemann had started the shows, and did so in case it would happen again this year), but without any interest at all... There were hardly any visitors at the show last year, so I believe the lack of response reflects reality in this area. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Update to QSpread
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I read somewhere in QL Today that there has been an update recently to QSpread. Does anyone else know of this, or did I imagine it? If there has been an update does anyone know where I can get it please? Hmm, as you refer to QL Today: it's all in there - page 49 of the latest issue. Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product.....
H! I now wonder what I bought from Jochen when he sent me QPTR. I thought that was the Pointer Environment by itself. What I got was the QPTR Manual (now much used), a set of Qmac macros for programming assembler pointer programs using Qmac, QPTR extensions for programming Pointer Environment in SuperBASIC and some demo SuperBASIC programs. Well, QPTR *WAS* the manual, the demo and macros on the disk plus the extensions to program the Pointer Environment from BASIC. :-) PTR_GEN, WMAN and HOT_REXT, the so-called Extended Environment, always came with every JMS program which required it (QD, Fifi, QSpread ...) (visually free to the customer, although I paid Tony Tebby royalties for the EE for every new sale, until recently, when he decided he did not want it anymore) What would one do with a separately bought PTR_GEN and WMAN and no program which uses it, I wonder Not much - except from having non-destructable windows, probably nothing. Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Celebration restarter Pack
Hi Malcolm, Alternatively could there now be another 'offer' in time for September 2005 ? heheee, although there might have been a hint in one of the many previous mails, all I say is: watch the ads ;-) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-( You are. His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot. Thanks Tony, makes one wonder if that is read at all... maybe we should, if it is a show invitation, just put the show and the date in...? Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
The link *always* was and still is http://smsq.j-m-s.com No www! Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: David Tubbs wrote: At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: JMS from your site leads to a blind alley. It doesn't - tried it just now. Tony Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL relevant site. It sends to you to his shareware site - no sign of anything QL related there Jeremy ___ 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] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!! Too many worms are installed by clicking on links. Use Text only and no HTML, if you really want things to be read!! It *WAS* text only. And putting all the contents into the main email is not really helpful either - if emails get too long, nobody reads them :-( And if we put too much text in, other receivers may complain for receiving too much text. Sorry, but impossible to please everybody. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Hi Jeremy, Tis true! I use thunderbird. It allows you to inspect thesource; and it is plain text. However under normal display it converts text strings that start with http: into a URL. Similarly, it converts all the and at the start of the line into pretty formatted coloured sidebars. There really is no reason why anyone should need to send email in html. However, the main point is, that unless the body of the text in an email tells me why I'm supposed to click on a link, then I'm unlikely to. I receive too many to follow random links without knowing why. Something as simple as Follow this link for Jochen Mertz' special offers would probably have done the trick. It has a header trader's ads ... not go to trader's website (Maybe you should put this in capitals only, double-underline it, Tony) isn't this explaining enough what the links are? And Roy's link even says showflyer. Honestly, if you need the explanation follow this link on a highlit hyperlink, you may as well ask for information to be added how to click on a hyperlink or general explanation what a link is... So what I am saying here is: whatever we do, we can't please everybody. It is always too much for some, too few information for others. But somehow I had the feeling that it was just about right for the majority. Obviously not, as you do not seem to be the only one who missed it. (Tony, how about putting please open this letter to see what's inside on the next real mailings' envelopes.) ;-) Cheers Jochen homepage: SMSQ.J-M-S.COM not www! ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Hooray!!! And to help for the future, I've added a proper signature from now on :-) Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: The link *always* was and still is http://smsq.j-m-s.com Ah. That's better. At Last !!! Jeremy No www! Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: David Tubbs wrote: At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: JMS from your site leads to a blind alley. It doesn't - tried it just now. Tony Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL relevant site. It sends to you to his shareware site - no sign of anything QL related there Jeremy ___ 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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Hi David, then try this one Jochen Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~godefroy/english on this server. Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.imaginet.fr Port 80 Well, it seems that the link to Thierry's website is broken, (will remove it, unless somebody has a working, but ... what has this to do with links to MY ad from QL 2004's mailshot last year? (at least that was the subject of the last 30+ emails or so). If anybody has a working link to Thierry's site, please mail it to me. Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://SMSQ.J-M-S.COM ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
David Tubbs wrote: At 00:18 22/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ... did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No! Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it. Jeremy Probably in QL Today. Do you subscribe to that? No __ Ich glaube es ist ausgekauft, Ich kann es nicht sehen bei http://www.j-m-s.de/index_e.htm Nein, es war ein Sonderangebot, um zu sehen ob es Kunden interessiert. Die SMSQ-Homepage ist smsq.j-m-s.com Jochen (no, it was a special offer to check if it draws customer's attention) ;-) The SMSQ homepage is smsq.j-m-s.com, by the way ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ... did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No! Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it. It was sent out by email to the newsgroups, advertised by TF's mailshot, placed on my website AND we spent a lot of money sending out some hundred real letters ... together with advertising QL 2004. That was one of the largest and most expensive mailings for the last 2 or 3 years, and the result was as described ... :-( Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Ich glaube es ist ausgekauft, Ich kann es nicht sehen bei http://www.j-m-s.de/index_e.htm ... und natürlich http://qpc.j-m-s.com Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be any future for the platform! Very encouraging discussion ... how many new software products will people write for QDOS/SMSQ, being told they better give it away for free to stabilize their own future ...? Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Tarquin Mills wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: As I said above, I think you got it wrong here. The fact that you choose to answer the questions or that these users call, has NOTHING to do with Support schemes. If you choose to answer, well that's a credit to you, but not the software author's fault! You SHOULD charge for support for FOSS... there's nobody stopping you from doing so and most likely I suspect that the phonecalls would stop very fast as well ;-) As for the Added Value of support being nonsense, I do not think that software giants like RedHat, Novell and mySQL are stupid... do you? They base their income on that scheme :-) One technique is to get an 0870 (national number) at 7p a minutes and 1p or 2p of the call charge is given to you, this is like the system that free ISPs use and if I had the money for a second line for a QL ISP I would use. The Phone Coop (http://www.thephone.coop) used to offer this service for free, I do not know if they still do. ... but these special numbers, and also 0900 etc., cannot be reached from outside the UK. We have similar Service numbers here in Germany (0180), which are a rip-off. Making the customer pay 9ct/min to get 1ct/min is pretty bad and only makes the phone companies rich. I avoid companies offering this kind of service, and especially companies where you have to call 0900 numbers. In addition, if you have to call these special numbers from the mobile phone, then you're totally ripped off ... they cost an average of 50ct/min ... and it still leaves only 1ct at the other end. (I thought you have minimum wages in the UK - is it allowed to work for 60p/hour???) ;-) Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:22:36 +0100 Jeremy Taffel wrote: Thoughts? Flames? I really cannot imagine that a price of 45 pounds is unaffordable. One visit to a restaurant with your family is likely to be more expensive. Exactly. And what Jeremy suggested has ALREADY happened some time ago, and we were hoping to get some new/old QLers interested. At the beginning QPC2 cost DM 199,- (slightly over EUR 100) ... so where are we now? Software prices go down, less sales to a smaller audience, travelling prices on the other side permanently go up ... We could bring the price down to a quarter, or eight, bundle everything we have, and stop development, free updates, any kind of support, visiting QL shows, just sell it out ... would you like THAT? I think we had that too, reminds me of the last activity of DP. In my opinion it is not a good idea to look for maybe a few potential new customers which may be out there somewhere and forget about the impact to anybody else. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QPCPrint othe releases
QPCPrint has been released at Hove :-) ... price is EUR 39,90 plus postage. ... and so was QL Today issue 6 and EasyPTR 4 ... I will update the website soon, but we just returned last night from the UK and it seems I catched Roy's cold. If I feel better tomorrow, I'll send the QL Todays out tomorrow, otherwise Thursday or Friday at the worst. Jochen François Van Emelen wrote: Dilwyn Jones schreef: SNIP 7. New Easyptr software available at last, hope everyone will now get a flurry of releases of colourful new QL software! That's good news. Price for the upgrade? Any news of QPCPRINT? I saw a demo in Eindhoven a few weeks ago; impressive. François Van Emelen SNIP Dilwyn Jones. ___ 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] A QL in Spain
TRUE! I don't have a problem with the Eindhoven date, but it could be a lot of travelling for Roy, Tony Marcel. Well, in this case it would be best to limit it to the first week in June, i.e. 1st to 8th. Flights seem to be cheapest on Wednesdays anyway :-) Jochen gwicks wrote: - Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:26 PM Subject: [ql-users] A QL in Spain Jochen, Marcel and myself are planning to be in Spain at some point between 1st and 16th of June. This is partly our usual excursion to get Marcel and I third degree sunburn and throw ourselves down impossible Roller Coasters but we would like to combine it with meeting up with QL users there. Don't forget we have all promised to be in Eindhoven on 18th June! I still want it to be a mini-international show. Sjef v.d. Molegraaf has already suggested the QL2004 afterglow show, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ 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] Pointer Environment and TK II
Nope - the Level 2 drivers weree seaparate unfortunately Can't remember who did them - Jochen do you recall? I think the Level 2 drivers came with the ATARI Emulator and GoldCard and QXL... too long ago for details. Done by QJUMP, of course... Cheers Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC with flopy disk F: ?
Hi Jon, the first USB floppy (or USB stick with floppy functionality/bootability) becomes drive A: if available, otherwiese drive B: That's how it worked here on several laptops. Cheers Jochen Dent wrote: Sorry if this is an FAQ but it's quicker to ask here than search for a reference that may not be there ;-) I would like to associate QPC's flp1_ with a USB floppy. My notebook only very rarely has an A: drive which I have to swap with the CD drive. Any chance ? Jon. ___ 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] How many repeats this time?
No problem with Mozilla 1.8 ... and 32k emails in a single folder (my mail folders count a total of over 700MB, so I doubt it's a size problem either). I thought they were both based on the same code, working on plain ASCII email text files. Just put the large ASCII files into the local inbox and they are all there. Regards Jochen Phoebus Dokos wrote: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:50:29 +,() Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?/wrote: I've got both those buttons! Buttons! 0.4.7 https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbirdid=106vid=122 By chuonthis https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/authorprofiles.php?application=thunderbirdid=67 Adds buttons to the Thunderbird toolbars such as Next! and Previous! buttons for navigating through all messages instead of just unread ones. One of the advantages of Thunderbird is that there are dozens of extensions available. You can customise it to have the features you want, instead of being lumbered with them whether you want them or not. other features I like are the built in spam filtering. Also, even when outlook appears to be configured for other alphabets, the use of those characters in the titles and sent fields, results in hieroglyphics in the inbox view. Not so Thunderbird which seems to handle it all fine. Thunderbird cannot handle however a lot of emails... for example on my Opera M2 I have more than 32000 emails... When I tried to import them in Thunderbird... well let me say that it didn't go well with it :-) Phoebus ___ 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] Quanta membership
Tony Firshman wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 20:13:18, gwicks wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership BTW is it now policy not to send the mag to advertisers? The last one I have is April this year. Tony The last one I received was August/September (7/8). Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005
Hello, Roy wood wrote: Just to put another issue into the mix here, John Mason called me last week and asked if I would organise the 2005 Hove show so it could be the AGM. I have looked into dates for this that would fit Quanta's schedule and I am preparing to book the hall for 17th April. This may have some bearing on the likely date for QL 2005 so I thought I should let you all know now. I would also welcome input from any traders would have a problem with that date. Sounds fine. If Quanta cannot organise the QL2005 why don't we do it ourselves and charge a small admission fee? Indeed, better have *A* solution than no show at all. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QPC2 version 3.23
Thanks for keeping up the good work... However, whenever a new version is released, I have to set up my configuration settings again - is there a way around this? Of course, Menuconfig - for a long, long time!!! Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] QL Meeting in Spain
Why not in Spain the next year? We will celebrate the 20 aniversary of the QL Spanish Version. We have already place. It will be in Madrid, on March 5. would you like this? Well, we would like to come! Roy Wood, Marcel Kilgus and I have already discussed a possible meeting in Spain some months ago (Madrid, Barcelona) in combination with a short holiday, but we did not know whom to contact. So we asked Graham Wall, who partially lives in Spain, some weeks ago, and he forwarded our request. However, March is not really ideal for a combined short holiday (and a visit to the roller coasters at Movie World Madrid) :-) We would really like to come, and Madrid sounds perfect, but would prefer a nicer time of the year, like end of May, or June. It seems to be a very good coincidence, and we'd like very much to come and meet Spanish QLers ... Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers
Put another way my life is not dominated by the QL. When I have to buy a new printer there will be a lot of things I shall take into account in making my choice and the QL is just one of them. I am not going to waste time or money looking for a QL compatible printer when the QL community has pussyfooted for years on solving the problem. More provocatively, in April 2004 three leading lights of the QL community sat on a Florida beach and decided that solving the printer problem was one of the main tasks for the 12 months ahead. We are now almost halfway through that 12 months. Could they give a progress report please? Well, we did not decide it was one of the main tasks, we all KNOW it is extremely important. However, there does not seem to be an easy solution. We discussed it several times later, but it still looks like a very difficult task. In the end, we need an easy-to-use, transparent solution, which needs to work on more platforms than QPC. This makes it even more difficult. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers
studies to scrap direct printing from the QL completely.) Why? I use an Epson 740 connected to PC by usb and at one and the same time (can't spell simutainly) connected to a QL by parallel port ( it has a mac port also ), although I can't say if this model or an equivalent is still out there, Jochen would know maybe. We are still using Stylus Color 740 and 900 together with QPC. Both printers are rather old (4...5 years, maybe even older), but print very well. The Color 880 was the last model EPSON made which had the ESC/P2. I also tried Canons, but recent models (SmartBase, or the brandnew IP series) does not recognise a printer language. You can send whatever you like to them - they do not even react at all. And to the obvious question - no I have never attempted printing from both computers at the same time (;-) I have not either, but they are all connected via USB anyway. As far as I remember the manual does not say you can't use both ports at the same time... Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] Menu_rext
Tarquin Mills wrote: Marcel Kilgus wrote: Michael Berger wrote: Completely agree. Having the configuration information within the executable file itself is a messy and error prone thing. Why's that? What's error prone about this? And once you're used to this, it's actually a piece of cake. Level 2 is especially nice because it can update new versions of an application to the old configuration. Very convenient. Anyway, sorry for the dumb question, but isn't both Menu_rext and MenuConfig provided on the QPC disc? I might be wrong, I don't put the disc contents together and haven't seen an original disc in ages, but I thought this was the case. Menu_rext is not on the Q60 support discs for the same reasons, so I need a copy to. Has there ever been a version of Sernet for non QL computers and is there enough documentation in the public domain for anybody to write one? Well, Menu_rext is not freeware, to start with. Everybody is welcome to bundle it with his product for a small royalty fee. This is how it was in the past, and this will even apply to brandnew products like QDT. Nobody has approached me to have it bundled on the Q40/Q60 support disks, so it is no surprise it is not on there... but everybody is welcome to ask! And yes, it was not originally on the QPC disk as QPC did not have Level 2 right from the start, if I remember correctly. And when it had been implemented by Marcel, I simply forgot to add it. Mind you, all of the QPC customers seem to have other products containing menu, as there was not a single complaint over the years. I remember very well that at this time, QPC1 was also on the disk and it was completely full - we had to remove stuff. Probably about time to deliver QPC2 on CD... Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Email problem
Thanks - seems to have gone through this time. Cheers Jochen Davide Santachiara wrote: The email address is actually ginosestilliATjumpyDOTit without the dot between gino and sestilli (I have called Gino on the phone to have this information) Please let me know whether this works or not Davide Dear DAvide, well, Gino SENT me an email asking for some questions. Do you see him/speak to him? In this case, please let him know that all mails to him bounce. Cheers Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Printers
Hi Ian, Any suggestions about which colour printer to choose? Try to get an EPSON Stylus Color 900 or 980. They *DO* work. They are fast. The ink is dead cheap. Ebay is usually a good place to get them. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] What happened at the AGM?
Oh well, I didn't get a copy of the report... was it posted on the ql-users mailing list?? Any news on the US show?? This and much more will be in the next issue of QL Today - which I hope will be ready for pick-up at the Hove show. If you have not renewed your subscription yet please do so, so that we print enough copies. If you have News for us please rush them to Dilwyn - the deadline was 1st of May! Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] Crumbs
So, I blame Wolfgang for writing that game and Jochen for selling it. It seems to waste more time in this household than anything else. Still, if it wasn't for The Wall she'd never use QPC2 so I should be grateful I suppose. Glad you did not complain to your electricity company for delivering the power :-And - thinking about it, it is REALLY the toast baker you should complain to for the fact that the crumbs block the keyboard. Cheers from Orlando, Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List
[ql-users] Email problems
Hi everybody on the list, I read about missing emails. Well, very strange things are going on. I ran several tests with Wolfgang Lenerz, for example, and only 3 of 4 mails from Bruce arrived at j-m-s.com Mails from some sources do not arrive at j-m-s.com at all, although they are whitelisted (they don't get through if no spam filter is active at all!). SOMETHING in the world wide web is filtering mails (or throwing them away) without notifying the sender. This is reproduceable in some cases, in other cases it is random. My provider has no clue either, but in the reproduceable cases the sending server refuses to connect to the receiving server. Fact is: it is unreliable and it is related to j-m-s.com (my main account). I would guess that due to the massive number of faked virus mails (I get the bounces, so I have an idea what is going on), j-m-s.com may be on some internal black lists (I checked all public lists, not listed in any!). Therefore, please send all mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the time being! If you have sent me mails during the last few weeks and you had no reply (which would be unusual, as I tend to reply very quickly) then please send it again, but to my .DE account! Regards Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List
Re: [ql-users] Email problems
NOT all bounces are actually that, One of the methods used Spoofs just that, Bounces ! Of course, Bounces with a size 30k and ZIP attachments (or other nice things) have to be Virus spoofs - but I get the full range :-( Masses!!! Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List
