Re: [Ql-Users] QD 2018

2018-08-15 Thread Jochen Merz via Ql-Users

1988 + 20 = ???  ;-)

Am 15.08.2018 um 18:01 schrieb Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users:

To celebrate QD's 20th anniversary Jochen Merz gave me the premission
to release the fabulous QD text editor for free. Enjoy:

https://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qd/

Cheers, Marcel

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Re: [Ql-Users] Sad news, sad news and more sad news

2018-05-01 Thread Jochen Merz via Ql-Users

Dear Alexandre,

thank you as well. I remember having exactly one customer in Brazil ;-)

All the best,   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Sad news, sad news and more sad news

2018-05-01 Thread Jochen Merz via Ql-Users

Dear François,

thank you very much.

Well, I have not really left the QL, nor have I been very active after I 
stopped QL Today. I still use SMSQ/E every day ...


I am glad to have met so many nice QLers during many years of QLing,
including you, of course, François.

Let's be glad that we had a great time - maybe one of the best, most 
innovative and most interesting ever?


Best regards   Jochen





Hi Jochen,

Sad news indeed. Condolences for your wife's father.

Now that you seem to leave the QL, it is time for me to thank you not 
only for the software but also for the excellent service and help you 
have provided all those years!


Kind regards,

François Van Emelen



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[Ql-Users] Sad news, sad news and more sad news

2018-04-27 Thread Jochen Merz via Ql-Users

Hello to Everybody on the list,

I don't know why, but it seems I dropped out of the list end of January.

Which means, I missed some of the sad news (like Sjef's death) :-(

My wife and I suffered from one of worst flu's we remember for about 2 
months in total, so I did not notice that there were no news ...


I had the chance to speak to Stuart Honeyball on the phone a few days 
before he died, thanks to his wife Karin, which has been a very sad 
call. What a great person he was! I hope I will find the time to go 
through my memories and write something ...


EU-GDRP compliance ... made me stop all my QL activies and shutting down 
all the websites.
I will display a "thank you for the great times we had" until 24th of 
May, then delete everything completely.
The rules and information requiries forced by the EU are just too silly 
and the fines are too high.
Even websites which show information only require detailed data 
protection rules.


I have already spoken to Marcel ... I will forward him sources and 
manuals when I find the time.


We have had bad news here either, the most recent being that last week 
my wife's father died suddenly and her mother cannot stay at home alone, 
actually cannot be left alone. I do not want to go into detail, but 
we're looking forward to many many problems.


Anyway, I just wanted to report that my software will not be lost ... 
but I definitely need time to sort things.


Best regards    Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Today 20 years ago...

2015-06-11 Thread Jochen Merz

Oh yes, you did :-) The machine was copying all day.

It has been a great time!!

Cheers   Jochen



Am 10.06.2015 um 23:32 schrieb John Impellizzeri:

Brings back memories!  I recall driving to that show with Don Walterman, we 
stopped in Ohio on our way down from Michigan and picked up Tim Swenson and 
continued on to Oak Ridge.

We brought a working copy of our QBox-USA BBS with us.  I’m sure I brought lots 
of software discs for Jochen to update.

Thanks for the trip back in time!



On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:51 AM, ql q...@bluewin.ch wrote:

US QL Show 1995 in Oak Ridge
https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=C250D8748980CE5Aid=c250d8748980ce5a%21730sc=photos
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Re: [Ql-Users] Final call for QL Today V17 + DVD orders

2013-11-27 Thread Jochen Merz

Dave Park schrieb:

Any chance you could offer the disk by itself? I'm sure many people might
want that who don't need the four magazines and expenses that go with that?


Mmmmh, I don't think so. First of all I do not want to upset all the 
people who already paid - and who got a lot to read and play with for 
little money...
If people were not willing to spend less than what QPC2 on its own cost, 
then so be it.

I'd rather support the people who supported us (QL Today, Marcel and me)
over the years ...
I re-printed twice for interested people who read it late or through 
other sources. I printed a few extra ones (Rich Mellor suggested to 
print a few more, which I did in the end) which can still be ordered,

and once those are gone that'll be it from my side regarding QL Today
and Bonus DVD.

I picked up the re-printed issues today, posted them and informed 
everyboday via email a moment ago. So I fulfilled this promise and

consider this as the very end of QL Today.

Best regardsJochen

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[Ql-Users] Final call for QL Today V17 + DVD orders

2013-11-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Good morning,

I will remove the links to the order form this evening, so today is the 
last chance to place your order, if you still want it:

http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

Best regardsJochen

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[Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD - even more re-prints (but that's the last chance)!

2013-11-11 Thread Jochen Merz
Just a quick info: I got more inquiries over the weekend for more 
re-prints. I am very glad to see there is so much interest in the

QL, in QL Today and QPC etc. ... I guess we all can take this as
a kind of compliment.

I don't want to turn anybody down, but this time it will be the final 
re-print ... definitely. So please spread the word wherever you can:
if there's interest in QL Today Volume 17 (all 4 issues) together with 
the Bonus DVD including FREE FULL QPC2 V4, then it is time to order NOW!


As all the previous re-prints are gone, I will do a (really)
final print-run. I have enabled orders for the next week: 
http://smsq.j-m-s.com/


I will collect orders, have the issues printed next week and ship 
everything the following week.


Best regardsJochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

2013-09-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Norm,

indeed - and I also know a source where to find a tutorial in many parts 
... well written, well explained and with discussions too :-)


Cheers   Jochen



nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk schrieb:

Jochen,

On the matter of assembly learning, I know a good mailing list ... ;-)


Cheers,
Norm.



Sent from my HTC

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise

2013-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Dave,

no, you can still order it as written in the other mail. For the 
re-prints, I need at least 10 orders - and yours would be #3 already 
then :-) I guess we will get there. You can order here:


http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

Jochen




Dave Park schrieb:

After going over my mail, I appear to have requested this whilst stoned out
of my mind on painkiller drugs the day after I had all my wisdom teeth
removed :)

Jochen, is it too late to send you some money? :)

Dave


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:53 AM, gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com wrote:



On 27 Aug 2013, at 13:40, Norman Dunbar wrote:


and - a surprise: QPC2 Version 4 will be on the DVD - thanks to Marcel
Kilgus


I'll second that vote of thanks, thanks Marcel.


My copy of QL Today has just arrived and, of course, I immediately tried
QPC2. Wow!

Many thanks indeed to Marcel and to everyone involved in the magazine and
DVD.

George
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

2013-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

On a personal note, as the first editor of the magazine, it was so nice
that the last words on the back cover of the very last issue were in
Welsh, not sure of that was a subtle and personal note or not, but in
case it was (and knowing Geoff it might well have been) thanks for that
and for the number of times my name appears in this last issue.


It was me actually and it was deliberate, of course :)


I very much hope that Jochen, Bruce and Geoff will remain involved with
the QL for some time to come.


I can only speak for myself, but yes, I will... it was a hard decision
giving up QL Today, but I still use QPC every day.
I also plan to start (learn?) programming in assembler again ...
not having done this for over 10 years - and I also miss it.


Thanks guys, I will miss QL Today.


Thanks Dilwyn, I'm sure I'll miss it too.

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD - re-prints possible!

2013-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Just a quick info: as there seems to be demand for more issues,
I still accept orders on my homepage  http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

I will collect orders until middle of October. I need at least
10 for the re-print (otherwise it costs me much more to drive
to the printer twice etc.) ... but so far we already have 2!
That was quick. If I have 10 earlier (by the end of this month,
for example), I will also do the re-print earlier and mail them
as soon as I have them.

Best regardsJochen



WILLIAM WAUGH schrieb:

And mine was on my desk when I got back from the weekly shop
Wow a lot of stuff to investigate, of course QPC2, I have it already but not 
tried yet on this Win 8 box until today, seems to be OK more tinkering required
Thanks to all concerned

Bill







From: QL2K q...@jadiam.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 15:59
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD


Hi All,

I'll received QL Today this morning too... :)


Jimmy.

-Message d'origine-
De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Ian Pine
Envoyé : jeudi 19 septembre 2013 15:16
À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Objet : [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

My final (for the foreseeable future) QL Today arrived this morning.
I'm exploring the DVD. I've got both QPC2 and SMSQmlator (Java7 on Vista)
running. SMSQmulator runs fine directly from the DVD but not much use with
read-only filesystem. I copied all the files from DVD to a folder and ran it
from there but keep getting this message: Can't read SMSQ/E file! :
java.io.IOException: The process cannot access the file because another
process has locked a portion of the file.

I'm launching it by opening the folder and double-clicing the .jar file. The
error happens even if I restart the computer and it is the first thing I
run.

No problems with QPC2 but the best display quality results in a tiny QL
window within the QPC window - I can scale it up by setting the bottom
resolution (under 'Window mode' checkbox) higher than that of the top
resolution, but this usually results in a reduction in quality.

Good fun playing, but I must drag myself away to tidy up and get dinner
started before wife comes home from work and I go out to mine!

Ian.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

2013-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz
Fine ... they have all been shipped as promised and should arrive sooner 
or later everywhere :-)


Jochen



QL2K schrieb:

Hi All,

I'll received QL Today this morning too... :)


Jimmy.

-Message d'origine-
De : ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com
[mailto:ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] De la part de Ian Pine
Envoyé : jeudi 19 septembre 2013 15:16
À : ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Objet : [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD

My final (for the foreseeable future) QL Today arrived this morning.
I'm exploring the DVD. I've got both QPC2 and SMSQmlator (Java7 on Vista)
running. SMSQmulator runs fine directly from the DVD but not much use with
read-only filesystem. I copied all the files from DVD to a folder and ran it
from there but keep getting this message: Can't read SMSQ/E file! :
java.io.IOException: The process cannot access the file because another
process has locked a portion of the file.

I'm launching it by opening the folder and double-clicing the .jar file. The
error happens even if I restart the computer and it is the first thing I
run.

No problems with QPC2 but the best display quality results in a tiny QL
window within the QPC window - I can scale it up by setting the bottom
resolution (under 'Window mode' checkbox) higher than that of the top
resolution, but this usually results in a reduction in quality.

Good fun playing, but I must drag myself away to tidy up and get dinner
started before wife comes home from work and I go out to mine!

Ian.
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Re: [Ql-Users] Arrival of Final QL Today + DVD

2013-09-12 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Bob,

thanks for the quick report and the compliments.

Yes, the Dutch issues went to the post earliest in Holland.
The German issues and the US issues went to the post yesterday.
All other issues will be shipped early next week from Austria
(airmail to all destiantions outside of Austria).

I have to split it this way to get the best postage for every
destination - 48pages plus DVD went way over the budget, especially as 
Deutsche Post removed the InfoBrief service surprisingly early this
year and the subscription price (summer 2012) did not cover it at all - 
but I thought that it would be great to end everything with a great issue!


I have printed a few extra issues so whoever wants it can still order it 
here: http://smsq.j-m-s.com/


Five or six sets are left over, as far as I am aware.

Best regards   Jochen




Bob Spelten schrieb:

Hi All,

The final issue of QL Today arrived in Amsterdam yesterday.
As always a pleasure to read, not all done yet, and sad it is the last one.
A quick exploration of the DVD gave no problems.
Compliments to all involved.

I hope the writer-QLers will not stop doing that and a new platform -
like Norman's - can be created for the more in-depth articles QL Today
was so good at.

Bob



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[Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD order deadline

2013-08-31 Thread Jochen Merz
It's me again ... as my printer will start printing the issues on 
Monday, there's still today and tomorrow, the 1st of September, to place 
the order (I initially wrote 30th of August).


The DVD looks great - and Marcel has added some long-missing features to 
QPC Version 4! I will start burning DVDs tomorrow and hope to have 
everything ready in time ... it will take many days, if not weeks,

as the DVD is full and I do not burn them at highest speed, as this
will decrease potential reading problems on some DVD drives (learned 
from the first DVD two volumes ago).


A great issue with a great bonus - thanks to everybody who helped!!

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD order deadline

2013-08-31 Thread Jochen Merz

... sorry Arnold, but how would you be able to have the last edition?
(Assuming you refer to the issue, not to the volume)

Once again: if you paid for Volume 17, you'll get issue 4, of course - 
NO EXTRA PAYMENT!


(If you have not subscribed to Volume 17 AT ALL, you won't get it,
and the last call for interested people who have not subscribed at all
is tomorrow.)

Jochen




arnold.cla...@talk21.com schrieb:

I do not know if I have the last edition or not but please snd me one and if it 
is extra let me have the price and I will forward it on.

arnold






  From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com
To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2013, 9:04
Subject: [Ql-Users] QL Today + DVD order deadline


It's me again ... as my printer will start printing the issues on Monday, 
there's still today and tomorrow, the 1st of September, to place the order (I 
initially wrote 30th of August).

The DVD looks great - and Marcel has added some long-missing features to QPC 
Version 4! I will start burning DVDs tomorrow and hope to have everything ready 
in time ... it will take many days, if not weeks,
as the DVD is full and I do not burn them at highest speed, as this
will decrease potential reading problems on some DVD drives (learned from the 
first DVD two volumes ago).

A great issue with a great bonus - thanks to everybody who helped!!

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise

2013-08-26 Thread Jochen Merz

gdgqler schrieb:


On 25 Aug 2013, at 22:23, Jochen Merz wrote:


Hello Alan,

sorry, I'm confused as well about the fact that you are confused.
If you have subscribed for volume 17 (and you have, Alan), AND the subscription 
form stated 4 issues of which you received 1, 2 and 3,
AND I refer to issue 4 coming up next and being the last one, AND we explained 
the situation about this issue 4 being the last issue in detail (as well as 
explaining why we deliver in September) in issue 3, why do you think you need 
to pay again?
And why would you want to get the previous 3 issues again (as I wrote that people who 
subscribe now get all 4 issues in one go)?

Best regardsJochen


I'm confused too, especially as I did not receive Jochen's email which caused 
the confusion.

George



Hi George,

the mail was sent yesterday 10:36 CEST to the group and it seems to have 
reached most readers, as I got some orders and some kind feedback.


Here it is again for you and everybody else who has not received it:

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!


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise

2013-08-26 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Bill,

no worries - I just took it for granted that everybody who paid for the 
issues 1 to 4 expects issue 4 to be part of what has already been paid 
for without any extra payment, OF COURSE!


Best wishesJochen



WILLIAM WAUGH schrieb:

Sorry everyone - think this confusion is my fault, I put the wrong meaning on 
this bit


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

I'm on antibiotics at the mo - could explain a lot  OTOH could just be age


All the best - Bill






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Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 11:07
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise


Op 25/08/2013 10:36, SMSQ - Jochen Merz schreef:

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!


Hi Jochen,

Thanks for the info.

François Van Emelen


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[Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise

2013-08-25 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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!


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Final issue, final orders and a surprise

2013-08-25 Thread Jochen Merz

Hello Alan,

sorry, I'm confused as well about the fact that you are confused.
If you have subscribed for volume 17 (and you have, Alan), AND the 
subscription form stated 4 issues of which you received 1, 2 and 3,
AND I refer to issue 4 coming up next and being the last one, AND we 
explained the situation about this issue 4 being the last issue in 
detail (as well as explaining why we deliver in September) in issue 3, 
why do you think you need to pay again?
And why would you want to get the previous 3 issues again (as I wrote 
that people who subscribe now get all 4 issues in one go)?


Best regardsJochen






Alan schrieb:

Hello Jochen

I am a trifle confused.
Am I paid up to date or do I owe for you to supply the final issue?
Kind regards,

Alan
(Alan Horsley)

-Original Message- From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:36 AM
To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com
Subject: [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!



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Re: [Ql-Users] QL today vol.17 issue 3

2013-03-28 Thread Jochen Merz


Dave Park schrieb:

I wonder if JMS will do a bumper last issue and go out in style?


If you were a subscriber you'd know :-)

And I guess our subscribers will know it anyway.

And anyway, most issues were bumper-issues. Like the current one: 
planned 32 pages, delivered 54 pages.



I also wonder if they'll offer a 1-off price for non-subscribers like
myself?


No, so far it is only for full-year subscribers.

Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-21 Thread Jochen Merz



George Gwilt schrieb:


On 20 Mar 2013, at 20:02, peet vanpeebles wrote:



On a personal note I'm terrible at thinking of things to write about so maybe 
people thinking up topics would be good. The hardest bit for me is just to 
start typing out something. Or what would people like to see reviewed etc? We 
have lots of interesting characters in the QL scene with a long history so 
maybe regular interview columns or old tales etc?



It always surprises me how many different ways people use their QLs. This shows 
up for example in differing BOOTs. It would certainly interest me to have QL 
users describe their own BOOT programs.

Yes, me too. I published and explained my (rather complex) BOOT many 
many issues ago and asked

for others, but there again - not much feedback.

Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Hello,

it makes me sad to read the QL Today thread - and so was I when I called 
Geoff and we discussed the situation.


Fact is: the German postal rates make it impossible to continue.
This time, all but the German issues were sent from Austria ... and the 
September issue will be sent from Austria too.


All issues are already in the post. 54 pages this time.

It was a hard decision - after 17 years of QL Today ... but
a detailed explanation will be in the issue, as Geoff already wrote.

A final issue will follow - can I expect feedback, please? :-)

And no, I don't think this is the end. At least I don't hope so.
I'm sure I will miss it at least as much as some of you do.

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Bill,

thanks a lot :-)

Cheers   Jochen



WILLIAM WAUGH schrieb:

Hi Jochen
much has been said for sure, perhaps most important is what has not been said 
and that is I'm sure everyone's gratitude to you and all concerned in your 
efforts over the past 17 years, don't we all sometimes forget what we already 
have in an ever changing world

all the best - Bill





  From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 16:16
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

Hello,

it makes me sad to read the QL Today thread - and so was I when I called Geoff 
and we discussed the situation.

Fact is: the German postal rates make it impossible to continue.
This time, all but the German issues were sent from Austria ... and the 
September issue will be sent from Austria too.

All issues are already in the post. 54 pages this time.

It was a hard decision - after 17 years of QL Today ... but
a detailed explanation will be in the issue, as Geoff already wrote.

A final issue will follow - can I expect feedback, please? :-)

And no, I don't think this is the end. At least I don't hope so.
I'm sure I will miss it at least as much as some of you do.

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Norman,


All issues are already in the post. 54 pages this time.

A bumper issue then! Nice. Can't wait.

;-)



It was a hard decision - after 17 years of QL Today ... but
a detailed explanation will be in the issue, as Geoff already wrote.

17 years is a great time. I think I've been there most if it. I'd like
to say thanks to everyone involved, past and present, for keeping us
informed all these years. I think QL Today has to be the longest lasting
QL Magazine of them all? (That's as opposed to Quanta, of course!)


A final issue will follow - can I expect feedback, please? :-)

Yes.

FINE!


And no, I don't think this is the end. At least I don't hope so.
I'm sure I will miss it at least as much as some of you do.

Well, if the problem is postage, a pdf is the way to go I expect. With a
download, there's no postage. How many of us readers cannot download a
PDF every now and again I wonder?

No, it is a combination of many things. Postage is only one of them.

Cheers   Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Yes - small packet.
However the price difference in Europe is not high.


Small packet is anything up to 2kg. No steps. Costs 8,20 EUR ...
not an optional at all.


I reckon though the main reason must be writers, and production time/cost.


And the always decreasing number of readers - time was unpaid, anyway.


I suspect most readers would be prepared to pay extra postage.


No, adding 8 or 10 EUR will be an increase we never had before ... and
we lost many readers when there were smaller increases.

Also, direct debit will have to be re-done for German readers
thanks to new EU rules - they will have to send a signed mandate 
back - which will lead to losses in readership again.



Anyway, let's see if something new comes out of all this - maybe it's
a chance.

Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2013-03-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Ian Burkinshaw schrieb:

Sad though this is, I have to say it seems me inevitable this was going
to happen sooner or later. The constant increase in postal rates is self
defeating, the more they go up, the less poeple send. Look at Christmas
cards, card pennies, post 40p, just out of step. I bet we have all cut
back on Christmas cards, for this reason. Many professional producted
magazines are going down the same road to electronic, to keep costs
under control. So we are not alone with this issue.


Yes, very true.


I have also to say writing for QLToday spured me on to write my hardware
articals. It was a focal point as a publication and deadlines. Without
deadlines we all go I will do that next week, then is two weeks and so
it goes on and it never gets done.


Very true as well ... :-)


Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Website

2013-01-10 Thread Jochen Merz

Dear Norman,

not going into details here as I cannot change the qltoday website ...
Bruce took care of it but he was very busy for quite some months.
The MAJOR difference here compared to Quanta is that Bruce does it for 
free, work and site hosting.


Current info can be found on my website
http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

... and I am sure that the qltoday site will be updated as soon as 
possible. I have informed Bruce.


No protective clothing needed ;-)

CheersJochen



Norman Dunbar schrieb:

Morning all,

I know this is a PITA - it is to me when someone tells me my web site is
out of date - but the QL Today web site (www.qltoday.com) appears to be
quite out of date.

The latest issue page is showing Volume 16, Issue 3 March-May 2012.

The updates page appears to have 11th December (year unknown, probably
2011) as the most recent update.

The back issues page has nothing more recent than Volume 13 - which
could mean that there are no more recent copies of course!

The cover discs page has nothing after Volume 12. I know that there was
a DVD with Volume 16 Issue 1.

The Listings page is missing (?) a few of the listings. I suspect that
not all listings in the magazine get put up here?

The index page stops at Volume 15.

There is one show on the show page, Vienna, June 2012.

I'm sure that there are more web sites that could be added to the links
page. Also, on this page Thierry Godefroy's QL Support Page is no
longer present at t he URL supplied.

I know I'm complaining, but I'm trying to be constructive. There is
plenty of criticism of the Quanta web people for having out of date show
pages, or news etc on their site ... ;-)


Cheers,
Norm. (Donning protective clothing )



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Re: [Ql-Users] Quick QL Today Survey

2013-01-10 Thread Jochen Merz
Yes, it's me!! I always read it why I do the layout. And of course, I 
find it interesting and amusing ... and I somehow miss the times where I 
had time to write machine-code.


I wonder if I could do it, over 10 years without practice.

So, reading the code refreshes my mind, as I still understand most of it 
:-)))


Cheers   Jochen


Norman Dunbar schrieb:

As an author of a couple of articles in QL Today over the past 16
volumes (That's 16.5 years - my first article was The Black Hole in
Volume 1, Issue 2 in July/August 1996!) I'm wondering, who (other than
George) actually reads my stuff?

Anyone?

Is it useful? Do you make use of it? What could be better? What would
you like to see? Etc.

Just wondering, that is all.


Cheers,
Norm.



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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 Issue 2 is on its way to ALL subscribers!

2012-12-22 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Urs,

wow, THAT was REALLY fast!!

Well, a picture of the cover exist on my SMSQ homepage since it was 
posted ;-)


Cheers   Jochen




Urs Koenig (QL) schrieb:

Jochen wrote:

Just wanted to inform you that all letters are already on their way to the
readers - to Germany, Europe and the rest of World. Let's see how fast the
various post offices will handle them - all airmail (outside of Germany),

of

course!

The magazine has just arrived minutes ago here in Switzerland. Perfect
timing for a read this coming weekend.

Picture of the cover page can be seen here:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C250D8748980CE5A!4390


Merry Xmas and all the best for 2013,

Have a great holiday season, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cheers, Urs
-
http://www.youtube.com/QLvsJaguar
Sinclair, QL, ATARI, JAGUAR, NUON, APPLE  more...

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[Ql-Users] Plans for QL2013

2012-11-18 Thread Jochen Merz

Plans for QL 2013

It seems that the article in the last issue of QL Today has triggered 
something for next year.


The venue this time will be Hamburg ... a nice city and worth visiting, 
if you have not been there yet. And if you have, worth another visit 
too... as the address will be Reeperbahn 1 (famous!) - the entry to 
St. Pauli.


Rainer Wolkwitz offered a conference room for the meeting for up to 200 
people in den Tanzenden Türmen/STRABAG ... and he says it will have a 
beautiful view over Hamburg and its port (only 10 minutes walking 
distance from there). The towers are quite interesting to look at, 
especially if you stay in front of them. Here, for example, are some 
pictures:

http://www.strabag-real-estate.com/databases/internet/_public/content.nsf/web/DE-STRABAGREAL.COM-PROJEKTE-B%C3%9CRO-Tanzende%20T%C3%BCrme,%20Hamburg#?men1=2men2=undefinedsid=232h=2

We thought that the date for the meeting should avoid the holiday season 
and major events in Hamburg, to increase chances for reasonable hotel rates.
We found that the following dates are probably the best ones, chances 
for good weather, chances for less traffic, chances for affordable hotels:

a) Weekend 18th/19th of May
b) Weekend 25th/26th of May
c) Weekend 1st/2nd of June
d) Weekend 31st of August/1st of September

So, we should start working out which date suites most of you best, and 
if you prefer the Saturday or the Sunday to be the meeting date.

Assuming, that a visit to Hamburg will not just be for a QL meeting,
other activities like siteseeing or shopping can easily be placed around the
meeting. A note for visitors from outside Germany: shops are closed on 
Sunday,
but there are loads of other things to do, e.g. like visiting the 
harbour and various ships, or cruise through the harbour, musicals, Zoo 
Hagenbeck, all sorts of museums or the famous Miniatur Wunderland (the 
world's largest miniature train exhibition).


Please let us know if there is any interest, and what would be your 
preferred date and day ... please send an email to s...@j-m-s.com, 
subject QL2013
and the letters for your TWO preferred dates (a,b,c,d) and whether you 
prefer Saturday or Sunday, or no preference.


Also, help would be most welcome - Rainer said he does not have too much 
time to care for other things like hotels. He can provide technical 
equipment which could be required for talks or demonstrations (hint, 
hint!), like a large screen or projector and internet, of course.


Please reply a.s.a.p. so that we can start working on the details. For 
dates in May, only half a year is left, which is 2 issues of QL Today in 
between for a poll of the preferred date and advertising for the event.
We may not be able to fill the room with 200 people, but after having 
had several meetings in the South, this is very North and a chance to 
meet people we have not seen for many years!


And - Hamburg is worth visiting and seeing anyway!

Best regardsJochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1

2012-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Thanks for all the feedback - wow, that is VERY fast indeed! :-)

The paper was difficult to get hold of - a trend colour - didn't
really want to repeat any of the colours we have had in the past
16 issues.

Cheers   Jochen

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[Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 17 starts

2012-09-14 Thread Jochen Merz

Dear Readers,

just wanted to let you know that issue 1 of volume 17 of QL Today
has been picked up from the printer.

52 pages this time!! :-)

Will be put into envelopes today and shipped to all readers,
maybe this evening, or tomorrow at the latest.

Hope you enjoy reading it - and if you have not subscribed or renewed 
yet ... still time to do so:

http://qltoday.com/QL%20Today%20Subscribe%20V17.pdf

or

http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

Best regardsJochen

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[Ql-Users] QL Today - ready for next issue of the next volume?

2012-07-23 Thread Jochen Merz

Hello,

just a quick info that we are still missing several renewals. I am about
to send out the one and only reminder end of this week ... but as I 
rather invest the money in additional pages of the magazine instead of

paying postage for the reminders, I'd like to ask you to renew as soon
as possible, preferably online:

http://www.qltoday.com ... or
http://smsq.j-m-s.com

Thanks for your support!

Cheers   Jochen

ps: I've had some inquiries about Volume 16 including DVD. It is,
of course, still available. Order link on the smsq website.

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Re: [Ql-Users] The Gilpins...

2012-06-25 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Ade,

no, but I have already left them a message via facebook.
Got also 5 or 6 of the faked mails, the last one with a different 
reply-to...


Jochen


Ade Vickers schrieb:

email has been hacked...

Does anyone have their phone no. to let them know (assuming they don't
already?).

Cheers,
Ade.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

2012-06-24 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Bill,

no, renewal is for the upcoming Volume 17. Current issue was issue 4 of 
volume 16. Just as I wrote: sometimes the post takes longer, sometimes 
it is very fast - all issues have been sent out and should arrive next 
week, if they have not arrived last week.


Cheers   Jochen


Billy schrieb:

On 21/06/2012 22:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote:

In message f08879f0-7843-442d-b181-e652d6596...@yahoo.es, JJ Ruiz
jjruiz_r...@yahoo.es writes


Hi,

Today arrived the QLToday 16-4 with no less than 54 pages!

Juanjo


Yes ... arrived in London, too, 21st June 2012, and a 'bumper' Issue
. :-)


Renewed my subscription beginning of April.
Had nothing yet
Wondering if I have to wait until the start of a new issue ???

all the best - Bill
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[Ql-Users] Fax renewal problem

2012-06-24 Thread Jochen Merz

I received a fax two days ago which looked a bit like a renewal form.
It was COMPLETELY unreadable (way too dark, too much black) and did not 
even have a sender number or ID, so I don't know who sent it.


So, whoever sent me a fax 22nd of June, 14:08 ... please re-send
or scan and attach vie email.

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

2012-06-22 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Norman,


On 21/06/12 20:46, Jochen Merz wrote:

All issues are already on their way ... amazing how FAST the postal
services sometimes are and how slow on some occasions.

I'm impressed as well. Recently, delivery has been excellent. Mine
arrived yesterday, unfortunately soaking wet due to the slightly damp
weather we are having at the moment.


Not only you. I guess our summer took place in April, like it did last year.


I had to sit it on the radiator to dry out before I could read it!

Did you ever get my email about the QPTR manual?


No. When did you send it? To which address?

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-14 Thread Jochen Merz

Marcel Kilgus schrieb:

Norman Dunbar wrote:

Mind you, it shows how well Marcel has done with QPC when it just works
and just works in a manner that makes me think it's still QDOS. Ditto
for SMSQ/e of course!


Actually I hope it works much better than QDOS ;) The SBASIC command
line history in SMSQ/E is something I'm particularly proud of and
wouldn't want to live without anymore (yes, I know about the HISTORY
extension for QDOS).


Indeed, a great feature! - I use it every time I change something in my 
programs or run some tests to adjust printouts etc.

Wouldn't want to miss it, especially for testing in the command line.

Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday

2012-03-26 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi All,

thanks for the great feedback. I am pleased to read that the delivery 
was extremely fast again, like the last few times (I remember that the 
last time where it took longer to arrive at some destinations was 
December 2010).


Thanks also for some early renewals - very quick :-)
I have had some server issues which did not allow me to update the web 
site contents - but that's fixed. I have updated the SMSQ homepage ... 
so you can place your renewals online through the SSL form, if you like:

http://smsq.j-m-s.com/

Thanks again for your support - please remember: Vienna is coming up in 
June and we will try hard to have the next issue ready for the event ...

so please send us your articles, reviews, letters etc. as soon as possible.

Best regards   Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today arrived today

2012-03-21 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Thorsten,

wow, that was very speed again. Sent the issues in two blocks, some on 
Monday, some on Tuesday.


Yes, we liked this issue too ... and it was pleasure to make as we had 
material rather early. Thanks to all the contributors and readers too...

and hopefully, we'll get the next issue ready for Vienna :-)

Best regardsJochen


thorsten herbert schrieb:


Hi all,

just got my issue of QL Today this morning. Great issue with plenty of 42 pages 
!!
Thanks to all involved ..

Best,

Th  
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Re: [Ql-Users] A QD quirk

2011-12-30 Thread Jochen Merz

Danke schön.

Auf dass 2012 besser werde!

Jochen


Anton Preinsack schrieb:

Mein herzliches Beileid, Jochen!

Anton

Am 28.12.2011 um 12:53 schrieb Jochen Merz:


Sorry, I don't think I can fix it except for reporting an error in the maximum 
filename length case. Extension things etc. may stop working -
so I can't change the location of QD's internal workspace variables.

I'm not in a mood to look at the sources as my father died last night.

Jochen



Bob Spelten schrieb:

Op Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0100 schreef George Gwilt
grggw...@gmail.com:


I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name.
The name was actually
ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the
contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple coloured ink.
This ink was set for all other files read in provided the name was not
of maximum length. The file ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345_wda1
reset the colour to a rather fainter, almost unreadable, purple.

Is this a new feature of QD? Has anyone noticed this before?



Normally I avoid maximum length filenames but I repeated your experiment
on my QPC2 (in 16 bit colour mode) with QD (vB01) and an ASCII test file.
A maximum name with a 3 character extension produced 'dark grey' text, to
be precise, a black and white stipple type zero.
A maximum name with a 4 character extension produced 'pink' text, a red
and white stipple type 3.
Although the white may have been the light grey background my QD normally
uses.
Loading another file in the same QD kept the grey or pink colour intact.
The resulting colours may be depending on the QD configuration or your
theme setting.

Furthermore I could not load the file into QD with FileInfo2, which I
often use to look at any type of file, QD was started but the text was not
loaded and QD reported 'no name' so normal Load from QD was used instead.
It seems to be another QD feature because executing the text into
VIEW_FILE from FI2 worked OK.

Renaming the file to 35 characters made the FI2/QD combination behave
normal again.

Best wishes for a QLing 2012,
Bob



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Re: [Ql-Users] A QD quirk

2011-12-28 Thread Jochen Merz
Sorry, I don't think I can fix it except for reporting an error in the 
maximum filename length case. Extension things etc. may stop working -

so I can't change the location of QD's internal workspace variables.

I'm not in a mood to look at the sources as my father died last night.

Jochen



Bob Spelten schrieb:

Op Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0100 schreef George Gwilt
grggw...@gmail.com:


I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name.
The name was actually
ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the
contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple coloured ink.
This ink was set for all other files read in provided the name was not
of maximum length. The file ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345_wda1
reset the colour to a rather fainter, almost unreadable, purple.

Is this a new feature of QD? Has anyone noticed this before?



Normally I avoid maximum length filenames but I repeated your experiment
on my QPC2 (in 16 bit colour mode) with QD (vB01) and an ASCII test file.
A maximum name with a 3 character extension produced 'dark grey' text, to
be precise, a black and white stipple type zero.
A maximum name with a 4 character extension produced 'pink' text, a red
and white stipple type 3.
Although the white may have been the light grey background my QD normally
uses.
Loading another file in the same QD kept the grey or pink colour intact.
The resulting colours may be depending on the QD configuration or your
theme setting.

Furthermore I could not load the file into QD with FileInfo2, which I
often use to look at any type of file, QD was started but the text was not
loaded and QD reported 'no name' so normal Load from QD was used instead.
It seems to be another QD feature because executing the text into
VIEW_FILE from FI2 worked OK.

Renaming the file to 35 characters made the FI2/QD combination behave
normal again.

Best wishes for a QLing 2012,
Bob



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Re: [Ql-Users] A QD quirk

2011-12-28 Thread Jochen Merz

Thank you very much,

Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

2011-12-16 Thread Jochen Merz



Tony Firshman schrieb:


On Dec 15, at 14:17 | Dec15, Norman Dunbar wrote:


On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote:

The QL Today
team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a
quick proofread.

Is now a bad time to mention some errors then? ;-)




None for met  yet.
... unless German is not normally used for the month - Dez on the front cover.


Well, that was spotted, actually, and I corrected it, but forgot to save 
it and next time I started the program, I forgot to correct it again 
(the only explanation, as I remember having read and changed it).



Jochen - that is unfair of me.  You should see my German (8-)#


So let's see your German then ;-)

Cheers   Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

2011-12-16 Thread Jochen Merz



It is mainly from works of music in German, so mainly religious and Schiller 
and so on.
I find it hard to use that to ask for train tickets (8-)#

Mind you I remember the time I was hauled into an impromptu  'play' outside 
Beaubourg (Centre Pompidou) in Paris.
As a finale, we were made to sing the European National Anthem - Freude 
Schoene ... from Beethoven 9th.
I was the *only* one who knew all the German, and I was singing loudly to try 
to get the German next to me to sing the correct words!
I was noticed by the 'director' and made to sing it solo!
Buy me enough beer and I might do it on the QL Vienna Feste next year.  On 
second thoughts, that will ensure you keep me sober (8-)#


I'm sure there will be plenty of beer in Vienna, and a video camera too :-)

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

2011-12-15 Thread Jochen Merz

I hope you all are aware that it is EXTREMELY fast - actually
the SHIPPING was scheduled mid of Dec so many of you received it earlier
than the shipping date :-)

I remember complaints from some countries last year and the year before 
that the post took 2 or 3 weeks to arrive (but then it was shipped 
closer to Xmas).


Cheers   Jochen


extdgl42 schrieb:

12th or 13th (M-T) in southeast USA.

Doug LaVerne 37830 USA


-Original Message-

From: Mark Martinstorycraf...@gmail.com
Sent: Dec 14, 2011 6:24 PM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Malcolm Cadmanq...@mcad.demon.co.uk  wrote:


In 
messageEF8854B6-A3B0-4468-9332-**47469a35a...@jdh-stech.comef8854b6-a3b0-4468-9332-47469a35a...@jdh-stech.com,
Jim Hunkinsj...@jdh-stech.com  writes

Hi,

Received in London today - 13th December 2011 ...



Drat -- the U.S. is always behind in these things...yesterday evening for
me.

I suspect the Jet Stream.
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[Ql-Users] Fwd: QL Today v16.2

2011-12-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

... 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



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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

2011-12-12 Thread Jochen Merz

Glad to read about all the arrivals well before Xmas.

We really rushed this time to avoid shipping in the last week before 
Xmas,where the post in most countries seems to decide that some letters

may be delayed by some time after Xmas.

Cheers   Jochen




Petri Pellinen schrieb:

Arrived in Finland today.

Thanks!

Petri

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Gerhard Plavecgerhard.pla...@gmx.atwrote:


Same for me :)

Gerhard



François Van Emelen schrieb:

  Hi Jochen,



Found QLToday V16 I2 in my letterbox this morning.

Thanks Jochen.

Have a fine day,
François Van Emelen

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[Ql-Users] The next issue of QL Today will soon be on its way :-)

2011-12-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
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.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-20 Thread Jochen Merz

Hallo Gerhard,

freut mich sehr das zu lesen :-)

Viele Grüße   Jochen

Gerhard Plavec schrieb:

Yo :)

QL-Today with DVD was waiting in my letterbox in Vienna :)
Thanks all people who worked on this project.

Endlich kann ich mir die interessantesten Artikel der letzten Jahren vom
Computer vorlesen lassen - wie lange habe ich das schon gefordert und
darauf gewartet - vielen Dank allen, die sich dafur eingesetzt haben -
zweifelsohne ein grossartiges Werk :)

Aber auch das QL-Today ist wieder sehr interessant ausgefallen...

@+
Gerhard

PS: I hope we see us 2012 in Prottes (Vienna)

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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Doug,

all the arrival reports are from Europe ... please allow the postal 
services more than 2 days ;-)


Cheers   Jochen



extdgl42 schrieb:

I haven't seen this despite looking for it eagerly, and while all sorts of 
Europe people have reported getting it some days ago, I haven't heard any USA 
reports of receipt, on the list. Am I hallucinating as if I'm lost in the 
Bermuda Triangle, or am I right that I just haven't received it yet like other 
Yanks?

Doug LaVerne 37830 USA

I hope I haven't dropped off the renewal rolls, after all the hassle Jochen and 
I went through to get past the credit card payment restrictions. But I suppose 
that's a matter for Jochen and/or Geoff.


-Original Message-

From: Urs Koenig (QL)q...@bluewin.ch
Sent: Sep 16, 2011 7:26 AM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro computing DVD
which is out now. The DVD holds searchable PDFs of all issues (15 years,
1996-2011) of QL Today magazine, plus as Bonus Material seven software,
documentation and picture collections which were previously only available
on CD-ROMs or on web picture galleries. Plus there's a copy (mirror) of the
biggest QL related website. All in all gigabytes of information for you to
discover.

Even though the Sinclair QL is the main topic, both the QL Today magazine
and the Bonus Material cover other Sinclair (ZX) and Retro Computing aspects
as well. Articles by Rick Dickinson (Sinclair Research Ltd. Industrial
Designer January 1980 - April 1987), Tony Tebby (Sinclair Research Ltd.
System Software Designer 1982-1984, author of Qdos), Simon N Goodwin
(remember his many articles in the 80s computer magazines and software like
the ZIP-compiler for the ZX Spectrum) are just a few hot-spots to name here.

The DVD is only available together with a one year subscription of the
current volume (4 issues) of the QL Today magazine. The QL Today DVD 2011
and the first issue of volume 16 are ready to ship now
(http://smsq.j-m-s.com/). For more information and subscription information
please visit the magazine's website (http://www.qltoday.com/). There's a
sample issue available as PDF for you to download and try.

Cheers, Urs
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QLvsJAGUAR - Much more than retro! - Always remember: QL forever!
Pictures: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/albums.aspx
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/qlvsjaguar/
Videos:   http://www.youtube.com/user/QLvsJaguar#g/p
Website:  http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch
  Old school but cool ;-)


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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-19 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Norman,


As someone who has to burn a pile of DVDs for a living (at work that
is!) I know exactly what a PITA it is to do, so a huge thank you to
Jochen - who I assume did the burning - it is an extremely thankless task.
Yes, all done with the same burner to ensure everybody gets the same 
DVD. Took some days (only 4x speed).



Equally huge thanks are due to everyone who scanned, collated and edited
the DVD contents - thanks everyone.

From me too, again.


I for one, appreciate the hard work and effort involved. We sometimes
forget (I think) that QL Today is not created by a huge conglomerate
with the latest in printing and DVD duplication equipment and that most,
if not all, is done by hand.

Very very true - thanks for the kind words,

Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-18 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Malcolm,


Arrived in London, too, on Saturday 17th September 2011.

Very fast this time.


Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
directory, then saw files on the disc, yet no content.
Turned off PC, and re-started. Then disc not accessible format message.
Tried on my portable PC, and all is well.
Both machines are running Win XP Pro.

Any idea what could be the reason?


Anyway, and great effort by all concerned ... :-)

Thanks :-)

Cheers  Jochen




Wow, THIS is a real record! So many reported arrivals throughout
Europe, considering that I posted them on Thursday afternoon - two
days ago! Glad they arrived fast and hopefully well ...

Jochen


gdgqler schrieb:


On 17 Sep 2011, at 14:35, Lee Privett wrote:


Ditto, mine arrived today in the UK/south, a worthy DVD
On 17 Sep 2011, at 14:16, Bob Spelten wrote:


Op Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:26:42 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig
(QL)q...@bluewin.ch:


This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro
computing DVD which is out now.


And QLToday plus The DVD arrived in Amsterdam this morning in good
health.
Compliments to all who contributed to this project.

Bob





Amazingly My copy arrived today in Edinburgh.

It looks good.

George
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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-18 Thread Jochen Merz

Both machines are running Win XP Pro.

Any idea what could be the reason?


Could it be that the disk is a DVD- or a DVD+ and the one drive cannot
read that format? Always a pain with DVD s!

Mine has also arrived and works - many thanks for this!


:-) Fine.

Yes, especially with RWs ... I did some tests some years ago and most
DVD-RWs were not readable on other systems, so I gave up on them.
DVD-RAM were and are very reliable, and much more flexible.

You may be right, but for non-rewritables, I thought that this + and - 
issue should be history ... as all drives were able to read both for 
many years now.

It must be a VERY old system if it handles only one type of DVD.

Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-18 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Adrian,


No problems here.  My congratulations to all involved.  A great piece of
work!

Thanks.


As I know from experience, you can never be certain that every disk is going
to be readable by every drive. Even if you verify each disk after burning,
some read problems are almost inevitable. And the very act of printing on
the disks might introduce a miniscule rotational imbalance that makes the
disk borderline on certain makes of drive.
I guess the post can do more damage to a disk than printing (here is no 
pressure involved). Or do you refer to weight of the ink ;-)



+R/-R shouldn't be an issue these days, but still, some drives are better at
reading one format than another.  My personal preference is +R.
I don't even know if it was a +R or -R ... as written in the magazine 
and the one before,

I've never created such a DVD.


Anyway, nice work.

... :-)

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-17 Thread Jochen Merz
Wow, THIS is a real record! So many reported arrivals throughout Europe, 
considering that I posted them on Thursday afternoon - two days ago! 
Glad they arrived fast and hopefully well ...


Jochen


gdgqler schrieb:


On 17 Sep 2011, at 14:35, Lee Privett wrote:


Ditto, mine arrived today in the UK/south, a worthy DVD
On 17 Sep 2011, at 14:16, Bob Spelten wrote:


Op Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:26:42 +0200 schreef Urs Koenig (QL)q...@bluewin.ch:


This summer I volunteered to work on a Sinclair related retro computing DVD 
which is out now.


And QLToday plus The DVD arrived in Amsterdam this morning in good health.
Compliments to all who contributed to this project.

Bob





Amazingly My copy arrived today in Edinburgh.

It looks good.

George
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Re: [Ql-Users] Ciao Roberto

2011-08-02 Thread Jochen Merz

Very bad news, how sad! My deepest condolences,

Jochen



Davide Santachiara schrieb:

It is with the deepest sadness and sorrow that we announce the death of our
friend Roberto Orlandi. He was  47 years and he suddenly died on 16th of
December 2010 while playing tennis. He leaves behind his wife and two
children.

We would like to remember his friendliness and the entusiasm he put to keep
the QL passion alive in Italy and abroad. We spent together great years.

Ciao Roberto, you will remain in our hearts forever.


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Re: [Ql-Users] A year ago today

2011-07-25 Thread Jochen Merz

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I received myNEMQLUG, reminder,
Thursday July 28th.2011 is the date of our next get-together. Things
will be just a bit different this month. This month Sarah has invited
the QUANTA Committee over for the evening . . . . .

Perhaps they will get your message .

Bryan H
UK.

Bryan
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Hello Bryan,

if you meet Sarah, please ask her to get the email fixed as well. I have 
sent five messages (from three different email accounts at different 
providers) in the past SIX weeks without a single reply.
I just hope it is only my mail which is blocked or filtered and not a 
general lack of reply (or illness or whatever) for such a long time.


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Re: [Ql-Users] Quantum Webring

2011-07-11 Thread Jochen Merz

Dilwyn Jones schrieb:

Rich Mellor wrote:

On 11/07/2011 18:29, Tony Firshman wrote:

Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jul/11 18:11 | Jul11:

Dilwyn/

Having been a member of the Quantum Webring since it's early days,
I am finding myself a bit frustrated with a problem which has crept
up in recent times.

Visitors to www.dilwyn.me.uk are sometimes (seemingly randomly)
redirected to the webring hub, which is hugely annoying for
visitors who do not want to use the webring.

I searched their forum and asked for help, but got what amounted to
a standard reply saying that rthey are unaware of any issues,
despite at least 2 others stating that this happens with their
(non-QL) rings too. The simple answer is to ditch the webring code
(bottom of the
page), but I'd rather try to resolve it first.

Anyone else have experience fo this and how to fix it?


Ah yes - I had this issue accessing your site as well only last week.
Thought it was me!
No idea though what causes it.
I did though use a Google search result. Maybe Google sometimes
lists the webring link rather than your site.

Tony

I have had this issue with the rwapsoftware.co.uk - I could not find
out what was doing it either - it looks as though someone has hacked
the webring code to redirect browsers to their website when it
appears as either the next one in the ring (or other ring link)

In the end I removed the code.

The notion of hacking occurred to me too, but it only ever redirects to
the Quantum Webring hub in the tests I've done anyway.


It also happened to me too when I tried to visit your site - I saw your 
site quickly but I ended on the hub a few seconds later. And even more 
annoying, there is no back navigation to the previous site, i.e. your 
site.


Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today

2011-03-28 Thread Jochen Merz

Apologies to George and the readers first!!! No idea how this happened.
And no idea why we did not spot it.

No, they went from Austria as promised - and I have received several 
renewals from over Europe, so they are arriving - pretty fast this time, 
just a week - I guess it is your Swiss post being slow this time.


Jochen



Urs Koenig (QL) schrieb:

gdgqler wrote:

The latest issue of QL Today has arrived in Edinburgh.

Getting your copy faster than the Germans and Austrians?
If so then where the hell did Jochen sent them from? Scotland?

Urs

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[Ql-Users] QL Today Issue 2 Volume 15

2010-12-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

... 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.

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Issue 2 Volume 15

2010-12-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] IQLR

2010-11-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] IQLR

2010-11-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Hrm

2010-10-26 Thread Jochen Merz

Morning Per  Norman,


It's been quiet in here for a few days, I thought I might start things
up again by asking Jochen why we never get a QL Today in pdf format. ;-)
Indeed - all has been said - and support for the Bridge module is 
ZERO simply no supporters. After that, the thread went completely 
quiet. But I never said never ...



Then again, perhaps it's better that I don't - he's already told us
quite a few times.

Indeed again. And it is pretty sad to see that Urs' effort did not get
feedback either... and it dates back about 2 weeks already.

Just this quick reply, then I'm out for this week - extremely busy
(taxes 2009 have to be finished by Sunday).

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] Hrm

2010-10-26 Thread Jochen Merz

Morning Norman,


Indeed - all has been said - and support for the Bridge module is
ZERO simply no supporters. After that, the thread went completely
quiet. But I never said never ...

Well, I couldn't offer support for the bridge as (a) the description of
it was all in German which I cannot read (I'm afraid and ashamed to say)
or understand.

Well, I don't think Tobias was referring to this kind of support.
As we know (and your German was good enough to figure all this out :-)
there is no test version.


Indeed again. And it is pretty sad to see that Urs' effort did not get
feedback either... and it dates back about 2 weeks already.

I gave feedback! Honest, I did! At least, I'm sure I did! (Note to self,
check the archives!)
Oh, I checked this before I wrote it (as I did not remember a reply) and 
I cannot find anything in this thread after Urs' message, 14th of Oct.
But I guess Urs, you and Wolfgang did not really count as we were on the 
active side, not the demanding side ;-)



In fact, I gave the feedback that Urs had produces a nice bitmapped PDF
which I was able to extract text from and create a smaller (ie a few
pages rather than the whole of issue 1) PDF where the text was text and
not an image. Which I thought was the problem - Calamus creates
bitmapped PDFs which are huge and we really need text based ones which
are much smaller.

Yes, they are way too huge - they should be text-based AND smaller.
And the only possible solution seems to be the Bridge Module (back in 
the circle).



Just this quick reply, then I'm out for this week - extremely busy
(taxes 2009 have to be finished by Sunday).

Good luck. I've not long finished mine for end of year. Just got my
Company Tax bill in as well. Sigh!

Not much to add. I feel as well: sigh!!

Cheers   Jochen

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

2010-10-07 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Tobias,


Per, all,
Even if I personally prefer any printed matter to .PDFs, (There's simply 
places you won't take your computer for reading...), another word on that:
Me too - and that was the essence from our readers when we did the 
survey some years ago.
An electronic version should not replace the paper version completely, 
otherwise we would have too many unhappy readers. It could only be an 
additional feature.


if I recall it right (It's been years since I have last used Calamus) 
the in-built PS driver did _not_ do the RIPping, but instead relied on 
Calamus to send already pixelized data - I'm afraid we'd (again) end up 
with huge, unsearchable bitmaps, something wich is barely an improvement 
upon simple scanning.

This is what I keep saying.

Opposed to that (also from limited memory) Bridge Pro, went in /before/ 
the actual image processing and should be able to export much smaller, 
and also searchable files.

A bit of searching reveals _this_ (German, unfortunately):

http://www.calamus.net/modules/bri.php
(It's not free, but Jochen mentioned he'd be willing to support the 
maintenance of that software... ;-) Ideally, he'd find some other 
supporters in the QL Toady audience, I guess)

Thanks. We found this already.
No, it is not free ... and there is no demo, unfortunately. Bridge lite 
is part of the delivery, but I cannot test the pdf there. PDF is only 
available in the full version. Let's see if we find supporters...


Cheers  Jochen

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

2010-10-06 Thread Jochen Merz

The only way seems to be a plain paper scan...
That is a pity.  Mind you a simple scan would do for me.  Anything to 
save you postage or the long walk.


Still other issues here, all explained already... whatever I do in 
ADDITION to the paper, it costs me more time... and 100% of our readers 
do not want to go for electronic only anyway.


Jochen

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

2010-10-06 Thread Jochen Merz


I know it's a bit like stating the obvious, but have you tried running 
an Atari ST emulator (such as Gemulator - 
http://www.emulators.com/gemul8r.htm) on the PC and then using a pdf 
printer driver?

Calamus has an INBUILT ST Emulator, otherwise it wouldn't work on a PC.

And of course, both Norman and I tried pdf printer driver (but that was 
explained earlier in the thread somewhere).


Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
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.
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-04 Thread Jochen Merz

Hehee, yes, but the question is: who pays for the travelling?

Cheers   Jochen

Dilwyn Jones wrote:

Jim Hunkins wrote on 24.09.2010:

Arrived in Canada today.


Mine arrived here in Switzerland today. So for me it's QL Today, for 
many of

you it's already QL yesterday. I will have a first read later on today.

I don't raise the question of how can it be that it takes 11 days 
longer for

Austrian/Swiss post to ship from Austria to Switzerland than it took from
Austria to Canada. In those 11 days I could walk to where Jochen sent 
it of

easily.

Urs
Well, there we have it. The ultimate cost-saver for Jochen. He would be 
able to walk all over Europe to drop off copies knowing that in most 
cases he'd get there quicker than the postal services could manage ;-))


Dilwyn Jones


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

2010-10-04 Thread Jochen Merz
Lucky you. Mine (Belgium) hasn't arrived yet. Last time I had to wait 
for more than a month. But I learnt to be patient... I know I will 
receive it.


I'm sure you will :-)

Jochen

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

2010-10-04 Thread Jochen Merz

Dilwyn Jones wrote:


- Original Message - From: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1




Hehee, yes, but the question is: who pays for the travelling?

Cheers   Jochen

Who said anything about PAYING for the travelling? You're WALKING - a 
few good pair of shoes is all you need (and some friends at the border 
checkpoints maybe).


(and perhaps a QL to pass the time while waiting at the checkpoints...)

Dilwyn Jones


Hard to deliver to the UK by WALKING ONLY ...

Cheers   Jochen

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

2010-10-04 Thread Jochen Merz
Yes, I know... I even used it three times and went back using the 
ferries - cheaper, more flexible ... well, until they decided to add 
high surcharges when you reached the ferry EARLIER than planned.


I guess if anybody attempts to get into the tunnel by foot,
he will be locked away, being treated as terrorist or illegal immigrant...

Not to forget that the tunnel is quite dangerous - flying doors every 
now and then ... I remember that happened an hour or two later to a 
train after we used the channel tunnel the second time.


Cheers   Jochen


Petri Pellinen wrote:

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com wrote:

Hard to deliver to the UK by WALKING ONLY ...


There's a tunnel nowadays ;) Which means that since we drive on on the
wrong side of the road here on the continent we should probably soon
switch to the left :D

/Petri
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Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday UK

2010-09-25 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

2010-09-24 Thread Jochen Merz

Great - that was quick again.

So the critical time for delays seems to be the christmas time...
we'll find out with the next issue.

Cheers   Jochen


James Hunkins wrote:

Arrived in Canada today.

jim


On 22-09-2010, at 12:46 PM, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:

:-) Glad to read this ... I hope that the other issues arrive
quickly at their destinations - they are all on their way.

I am happy to deliver another issue with many bonus pages next time too - 
provided, we get enough material for the next issue in time!!!

Cheers   Jochen


Anton Preinsack wrote:

Am 19.09.2010 um 13:06 schrieb Frank-Guido Dibowski:

QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1 arrived here(Germany, Eifel) yesterday.
I like it 

Regards to all,

Frank-Guido Dibowski

QL Today arrived here in Vienna/Austria (and I like it, too;-)).
Regards,
Anton
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Re: [Ql-Users] Epson EPL-6200 compatibility with QL

2010-09-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today - Volume 14, Issue 3

2010-06-18 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Malcolm,

I hope it was issue 4 ...
many of the readers have received them within the past 4 days or so - I 
actually got some renewals already - thanks a lot :-)


Cheers   Jochen



Malcolm Cadman wrote:

Hi,

Just received the QL Today - Volume 14, Issue 3 - today Friday 18th June 
2010, in London.


So any postal delays are now fixed ?



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Re: [Ql-Users] USB Floppy Disks

2010-06-14 Thread Jochen Merz


I think it probably is a Windows 7 issue - I never had the problem on 
Windows XP, but then I never had a USB floppy drive with XP


Worked fine here with Win XP all the time - with two different USB 
floppies which I used to bring to the shows in the past 6 or 7 years.


Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-10 Thread Jochen Merz

Dear George,


Marcel's and Jochen's comments made me think twice about considering adding 
information about my TurboPTR on Rich's site.

I was referring to self-advertising for commercial products.

I regard any encyclopedia (online or offline) as something which 
should be as unbiased as possible, and writing something about your

own commercial product could not be regarded as this ... that's how
I feel about it.

Please do not regard this as criticism to anybody who does so (Rich,
for example, is doing a great job and I cannot imagine how much time
it takes him), but I would rather NOT do it for the products I sell.

It would, however, not worry me, for non-commercial products, as you
do not (really) want to compete, so I would not regard this as
advertising.

Cheers   Jochen



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Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-10 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Rich,

Believe it or not, there is still a burgeoning market out there for 
retro computers - I rely on them for my main source of income at the 
moment (since I was made redundant in December) and have successfully 
brought several new products to market (or made old ones available 
again), and all this helps.
I understand this, although I did not sell any old hardware in the past 
few years,
but that was never my aim anyway. When QPC came out and the QL hardware 
emulator ended, there was no point in me elling hardware.



Over the past few years, we have sourced and brought to market:

Yes, you are doing a very good job.
That is why I forward interested people to you, by the way ;-)

2. The internet may be aimed at providing information, but 99% of sites 
(including wikis) are used for promotion of business - after all, not 
many people can afford to set up and maintain a website longterm without 
it providing some source of revenue.  If someone is interested in 
reading about QPC2 for example, why leave it open ended as to where they 
can now obtain a copy from ?  That is like telling someone about a 
wonderful product which will change their lives immensely, but if they 
want to get hold of it, sorry - just look on google and see if anyone 
else has listed it for sale...


Please see other mail. Advertising is advertising, and a lot of internet 
info IS advertising. A Wikipedia (which I regard as some kind of 
Lexikon where you look up things and they are explained, but in an

unbiased, non-advertising way) is something different in my opinion.
THAT is a place where I do not expect (and do not want!!) advertising.

It is OK to use a website, where it is clear one wants to sell 
something, for advertising, and advertise by being found through google 
etc. ... but that's something different.


Even a link or something like (taken from J-M-S webseite to SHOW it
could be advertising) is something different.

Cheers   Jochen


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Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future

2010-06-09 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] Austrian pictures

2010-06-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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



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Re: [Ql-Users] Vienna show - first pictures online...

2010-06-03 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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
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Re: [Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 in Vienna - More News

2010-05-26 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Per,


Holiday Inn is probably Out unless a) someone would like to share a
smoking double bed with me. No? I thought so, or b) someone out
there would like to purchase a super QXL2 card from me, now, sadly,
surplus to requirements (see separate mail)

Tony, you didnt mention whether you were staying at HI City or South.

City - Margaretenstr.

Cheers   Jochen

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Re: [Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 in Vienna - More News

2010-05-25 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Per,


Although living in Bergen, Norway is a bit like living in Timbuctoo,
as far as the rest of the world is concerned, I hope to be there ;o)
Flying in late on Friday and out on Monday.

Fine :-)


It would be nice to stay somewhere where other QLers are holed up;
alternatively somewhere cheap (and preferably both) Whats the best
advice on this, please?
Contact Gerhard? I assume he would know best who is coming and staying 
in his area.


Cheers   Jochen

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[Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 in Vienna - More News

2010-05-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 in Vienna - More News

2010-05-24 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Anton,


I will be there, too. There is a little chance, that Peter Graf will be there, 
too.

Wow, more and more visitors :-)


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 :-)

Great! If you do so, please don´t forget about me (I have an Abo).

Of course not - you'll get yours :-D

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Re: [Ql-Users] International QL-Meeting 2010 - Latest News

2010-05-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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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
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Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3

2010-03-23 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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

2010-03-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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


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

2010-03-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
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 :-)

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[Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 14 Issue 3 is on its way to all the readers

2010-03-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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

2010-03-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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?



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

2010-03-06 Thread Jochen Merz

Hi Rich,


The manual does not explain that I needed to pass WIN_FORMAT 3 - silly me!!

Doesn't it? Yes, it is not 100% clear. The text states allow the drive
to be formatted, and the example shows WIN_FORMAT 1 for drive 1...


Is there a minimum size for a QXL.WIN file?  1MB or lower?

I have never tried FORMAT Win1_0.5   :-)

Cheers   Jochen




Rich

SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:

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?








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Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-03-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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.

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Re: [Ql-Users] Anniversaries

2010-01-11 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday

2010-01-11 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday

2010-01-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz

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

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