[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

[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.

[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

[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,

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

2010-12-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
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

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,

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

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today today

2010-10-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
- 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

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

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

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

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

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.

[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

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

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 -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012

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

2010-03-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
! 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

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.

[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

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

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,

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

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 -- Jochen Merz Software -

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

Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday

2010-01-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Per, I'm sure it will arrive. There's one thing to learn from this: mid of Dec seems to be too late. This year, the Dec issue should be out beginning of Dec, to avoid this situation. Jochen P Witte wrote: SMSQ - Jochen Merz writes: Hello François, great! I am glad all the mags arrive

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-05 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hello Adrian, I am sorry to say that what YOU write about Royal mail is true for Deutsche Post too. They save on everything you can imagine: they took thousands of postboxes away, so that millions of customers have to go/drive longer routes to put their letters into boxes (and then they

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
... sorry, can't follow you here, Tony. Maybe clarification in a PM? Cheers Jochen Tony Firshman wrote: Tony Firshman wrote, On 4/01/10 11:34: SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote, On 1/01/10 13:36: Thanks Dilwyn may I wish the same to you and all the others on the list too. I'm a bit surprised

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-03 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Sjef, Any chance for another Eindhoven meeting this year? I hope for a meeting end April and the beginning of October. I will try my best but it isn't sure yet. That sounds good. But please not the first weekend in October - this is usually combined with a bank holiday in Germany. I

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-02 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Sjef, hope are well, or at least health is improving. Any chance for another Eindhoven meeting this year? And - I got a few more reports from QL Today which have already arrived, Germany and even France. And, even the mail to Canada to Jim Hunkins arrived BEFORE Xmas. I guess the post

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy New Year

2010-01-01 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks Dilwyn may I wish the same to you and all the others on the list too. I'm a bit surprised that there has been no comment about the QL Today issue 2 which I sent out middle of December - or was the post too slow to deliver before Xmas? Jochen Dilwyn Jones wrote: May I be the first to

Re: [Ql-Users] International QL meeting 2010 in Austria

2009-12-13 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Great! We are rather flexible and are able to come both Friday and Saturday, assuming at least one of them is the main day (with the visit to the railroad museum) :-) Cheers Jochen Marcel Kilgus wrote: Gerhard Plavec wrote: If you are interested by the meeting 2010 please have a look at

[Ql-Users] The next issue of QL is nearly ready to be shipped.....

2009-12-12 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
... and will be shipped next week from Austria as scheduled. This time, 25% extra pages, as we have another extremely interesting article from Tony Tebby ... and, of course, part 2 of the QL Rom Myths (really breathtaking). If you have not subscribed yet, then it's not too late: issue 1 of

Re: [Ql-Users] Test (Please ignore)

2009-12-02 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
ignored :-) Anton Preinsack wrote: ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel. +49-(0)203-502011 Fax +49-(0)203-502012 Email: s...@j-m-s.com

Re: [Ql-Users] The best date...

2009-11-18 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hello Gerhard, As you know (or not), I like robots beside of computers - I just learned that the Eurobot-event (look at eurobot.org - www.swisseurobot.ch) takes place end of mai 2010 in Rapperswil (Switzerland), so it is ok for me to have the QL-meeting in june... Oh, Rapperswil - just at the

Re: [Ql-Users] Using a QL Emulator on a PC with a USB floppy disk drive

2009-10-12 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
I can confirm that it works too. If you plug in two USB floppy disks, the first becomes A: and the second B: ... quite the way it should be. I wonder what happens if you plug in a third one :-))) Jochen Adrian D. Ives wrote: fyi. I'm running both emulators under Vista on a Sony VAIO laptop

Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files

2009-10-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Norman, first, congratulations on getting maried - or is it your first anniversary yet! ;-) Thanks ... getting close to a year soon :-) So send in your contributions as well, please :-)) I'm already typing mine up. I won't say exactly what I'm doing - it's a surprise. Very good - we

Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files

2009-10-05 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
P.S. The 'new look' magazine is fine; even if a bit thinner it has not lost any of its quality. Thank you. I did some tests and it really feels thinner because of the 80g cover paper instead of the 160g. However, using 160g would mean: losing more pages. Actually, the way it is, it was heavier

Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article

2009-10-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Dilwyn, (Hope you understand I was only teasing you, not complaining) Of course, of course - your complaints arrive directly in my personal mailbox :-) Actually, 12 months' worth of mail redirection is in use anyway, so it turned up with an extra label superimposed by the post office.

Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article

2009-10-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
More surprises to come in the next part :-) Dilwyn Jones wrote: QL Today has just arrived, today, in Edinburgh. In a week nor so copies will have reached Iceland I suppose. I hope they find Tony Tebby's fantastic article as amusing as I did. And yet we are all still using QL's in one form or

Re: [Ql-Users] Tony Tebby article

2009-10-03 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks John :-) Yes, you change addresses everywhat except for in your own database. This is not the first time it has happened to me, sorry, Dilwyn. Cheers Jochen John Gilpin wrote: It must be something to do with us editors being overworked, Dilwyn. I almost did the same thing or didn't

Re: [Ql-Users] The Tebby Files

2009-09-28 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Well, I brought ALL issues of ALL our readers (Bruces and mine) to the post last Tuesday in Austria, so they should arrive every day. Strange that they made it quicker half way through Germany to Ralf than to Marcel in the South. I have had already some inquiries: this issue is the start of

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-14 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Sjef, thanks a lot, and good to hear from you :-) Any chance for QL shows in Eindhoven next year? You know, it's not only us who miss them ... I've had several people writing to me who miss it! Cheers Jochen sjef...@iae.nl wrote: SMSQ schreef: Thank you very much :-) Nothing

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks Frank, and all the best to you and your family too :-) Jochen Frank-Guido Dibowski wrote: Mr and Mrs Merz - yes - I bet some of you did not know Jochen and Andrea have got married. Jochen and Andrea, my best wishes for your mariage. After 10 years and three children together with my

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Darren Branagh wrote: On 9/9/09, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com wrote: Thanks, Darren :-) (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had! Indeed!!! Fairly Sure

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-09 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Malcolm, yes ... amazing how fast time goes by... Cheers Jochen Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4aa6b191.9030...@j-m-s.com, SMSQ - Jochen Merz s...@j-m-s.com writes Hi Jochen, Already approaching the first anniversary then ... :-) Thanks ... hehee, it wasn't THAT recent - last

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-09 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks, Darren :-) (I hope the translation is not rude) ... and seeing Jim on the list, this reminds me of QDT and the jokes about it in the US, or was it Canada ... great time we had! I believe JM means something different, as Tony Tebby can tell in one of the next issues of QL Today.

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-09 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks Jim, I am amazed nearly nobody knew about our marriage ... up to you to make it to Switzerland for the meeting :-) CheersJochen James Hunkins wrote: Congratulations! jim On 08-09-2009, at 12:57 PM, SMSQ wrote: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks again ... let's hope we can meet at an Eindhoven show next year then :-) Cheers Jochen François Van Emelen wrote: SMSQ schreef: Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks ... hehee, it wasn't THAT recent - last November, actually :-) Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message 4aa68ced.6050...@j-m-s.com, SMSQ s...@j-m-s.com writes Hi Jochen, Congratulations on your recent marriage ... and have a happy life together. Thank you very much :-) Nothing mystic

Re: [Ql-Users] ql-mac Lucerne show

2009-09-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks as well ... yes, it's been a long time since we met last time (Italy...?). We both look forward to seeing you again too. Cheers Jochen The Dents wrote: Nothing mystic here, but we don't advertise this either :-D We thought after 10 years, we should know what we want ... so we got

[ql-users] J-M-S Update website

2006-10-21 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi everybody, just wanted to inform you that Wolfgang's latest update (fix of SMSQ/E GC/SGC Aurora with Home Directory) is alreday on the JMS Update page available - and so is the latest QPAC2, of course. Best regardsJochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet

2006-10-16 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Dear John, Sorry to learn of your bad news (not being at Byfleet) and both Sarah I wish you a speedy recovery. Thanks a lot. There won't be a kind of recovery, I have to live with it like I did in the past. Hoping to get it down to a level like 3 or 5 years ago. Yes, please ask about

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet

2006-10-14 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Malcolm, I am sorry to hear that you cannot make it to Byfleet. Although I hope that you get fit again soon. Thanks a lot. Just back from Eindhoven. Bernd and myself are quite keen on coming to the UK next year. Hopefully Marcel has finished his diploma by then and can join in as well.

[ql-users] Eindhoven and Byfleet

2006-10-13 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi everybody, just wanted to say that I'll be at the Eindhoven QL meeting tomorrow, Saturday - same venue as always (St. Joris College, Eindhoven, NL). Will bring the usual range, but if you want anything special please let me know today. QL Today will hopefully be ready for Byfleet. I had a bad

[ql-users] Eindhoven meeting next Saturday, 17th of June

2006-06-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Dear QLer, the next Eindhoven meeting is coming up, and JMS will be there! I will bring the standard range of products, QL Today back-issues etc. ... and if you have not renewed for Volume 11, there's a good chance to do so! The usual range of CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs etc., empty cases and some

Re: [ql-users] ***

2006-05-20 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
That was too clever by far. I don't think we choose where we live by street names (8-)# I didn't realise winkel was corner, or indeed the meaning of his surname. March translates to März, not Merz! The name Merz comes from Merzeler... which was a name for small traders several hundred years

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-05 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
To be PRECISE, DP holds (or held, or whatever the situation might be) the right to sell the ENGLISH version of QMON. The agreement version with TT was that I can continue selling QMON/JMON with German manuals, and do upgrades from QMON to JMON for both languages. Jochen Marcel Kilgus wrote:

Re: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange

2006-01-05 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Maybe you should try fiddling with the Extended properties of the printer, e.g. disable the spooler and send contents directly to the printer. I had to do this to connect an EPSON POS printer, program it via QPC and get immediate reaction on every byte sent to the printer. Jochen Bill Waugh

Re: [ql-users] Printing with QPCprint via XChange

2006-01-05 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
with programming. I just MENTIONED that *I* had to do this to get my ESC/POS printer working, i.e. reacting on every byte sent without having to open and close the port all the time. Cheers Jochen Bill Waugh wrote: - Original Message - From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ql-users] screenshoots

2006-01-02 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
I have the impression Tesco.net's spamfilter is not properly working ... My mails to other tesco.net users bounced back, correctly written, but tesco.net reported wrong errors. I tried sending from different SMTPs which were not blacklisted (at least not in public databases). If you were using

Re: [ql-users] Quill Makeover

2005-11-08 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
It was publicly available, not just for Quanta members. In fact, Erling Jacobsen and Gunther Strube wrote in the readme file We hope that you will enjoy XCHANGE - and - it is YOUR responsibility to distribute XCHANGE to every QL user you know! The full archives were available on the JMS BBS and

Re: [ql-users] The QL is an adult computer conference

2005-11-01 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
I also had problems sleeping on Friday night due to the noise from the heating system (I had left my window open all evening so the temperature itself was okay). Saturday night wasn't so bad, which probably had something to do with getting to bed late after consuming plenty of Guinness and

Re: [ql-users] Which game would you like to be writen ?

2005-08-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
PSII: Are there any QL User in Germany left, of even an Club of QL Partys ? A few like me are still around and somewhat active. There has even been a meeting once a year, but this year it looks like it won't happen again. Therefore the nearest location for me was Eindhoven. I spoke to

Re: [ql-users] Update to QSpread

2005-07-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I read somewhere in QL Today that there has been an update recently to QSpread. Does anyone else know of this, or did I imagine it? If there has been an update does anyone know where I can get it please? Hmm, as you refer to QL Today: it's all in there -

Re: [ql-users] was... Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-27 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
H! I now wonder what I bought from Jochen when he sent me QPTR. I thought that was the Pointer Environment by itself. What I got was the QPTR Manual (now much used), a set of Qmac macros for programming assembler pointer programs using Qmac, QPTR extensions for programming Pointer

Re: [ql-users] Celebration restarter Pack

2005-04-26 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Malcolm, Alternatively could there now be another 'offer' in time for September 2005 ? heheee, although there might have been a hint in one of the many previous mails, all I say is: watch the ads ;-) Cheers Jochen -- Jochen Merz Software - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 302 - D-47169 Duisburg Tel.

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-( You are. His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot. Thanks Tony, makes one wonder if that is read at all... maybe we should, if it is a show invitation, just put the show and the date in...? Jochen

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
The link *always* was and still is http://smsq.j-m-s.com No www! Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: David Tubbs wrote: At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: JMS from your site leads to a blind alley. It doesn't - tried it just now. Tony Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!! Too many worms are installed by clicking on links. Use Text only and no HTML, if you really want things to be read!! It *WAS* text only. And putting all the contents into the main email is not really helpful either - if

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Jeremy, Tis true! I use thunderbird. It allows you to inspect thesource; and it is plain text. However under normal display it converts text strings that start with http: into a URL. Similarly, it converts all the and at the start of the line into pretty formatted coloured sidebars. There

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hooray!!! And to help for the future, I've added a proper signature from now on :-) Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: The link *always* was and still is http://smsq.j-m-s.com Ah. That's better. At Last !!! Jeremy No www! Jochen Jeremy Taffel wrote: David Tubbs wrote: At 14:11

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi David, then try this one Jochen Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~godefroy/english on this server. Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.imaginet.fr Port 80 Well, it seems that the link to Thierry's website is broken, (will remove it, unless somebody has a working, but ... what has this to

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
David Tubbs wrote: At 00:18 22/04/2005 +0100, you wrote: Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote: We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ... did we get

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ... did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No! Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it. It was sent out by email to the newsgroups, advertised by TF's mailshot, placed on

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Ich glaube es ist ausgekauft, Ich kann es nicht sehen bei http://www.j-m-s.de/index_e.htm ... und natürlich http://qpc.j-m-s.com Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-21 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be any future for the platform! Very encouraging discussion ... how many new

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-21 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Tarquin Mills wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: As I said above, I think you got it wrong here. The fact that you choose to answer the questions or that these users call, has NOTHING to do with Support schemes. If you choose to answer, well that's a credit to you, but not the software author's

Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-20 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:22:36 +0100 Jeremy Taffel wrote: Thoughts? Flames? I really cannot imagine that a price of 45 pounds is unaffordable. One visit to a restaurant with your family is likely to be more expensive. Exactly. And what Jeremy suggested has ALREADY happened some

[ql-users] QPCPrint othe releases

2005-04-19 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
QPCPrint has been released at Hove :-) ... price is EUR 39,90 plus postage. ... and so was QL Today issue 6 and EasyPTR 4 ... I will update the website soon, but we just returned last night from the UK and it seems I catched Roy's cold. If I feel better tomorrow, I'll send the QL Todays out

Re: [ql-users] A QL in Spain

2005-01-26 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
TRUE! I don't have a problem with the Eindhoven date, but it could be a lot of travelling for Roy, Tony Marcel. Well, in this case it would be best to limit it to the first week in June, i.e. 1st to 8th. Flights seem to be cheapest on Wednesdays anyway :-) Jochen gwicks wrote: - Original

Re: [ql-users] Pointer Environment and TK II

2005-01-22 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Nope - the Level 2 drivers weree seaparate unfortunately Can't remember who did them - Jochen do you recall? I think the Level 2 drivers came with the ATARI Emulator and GoldCard and QXL... too long ago for details. Done by QJUMP, of course... Cheers Jochen

Re: [ql-users] QPC with flopy disk F: ?

2005-01-02 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Jon, the first USB floppy (or USB stick with floppy functionality/bootability) becomes drive A: if available, otherwiese drive B: That's how it worked here on several laptops. Cheers Jochen Dent wrote: Sorry if this is an FAQ but it's quicker to ask here than search for a reference that may

Re: [ql-users] How many repeats this time?

2004-12-06 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
No problem with Mozilla 1.8 ... and 32k emails in a single folder (my mail folders count a total of over 700MB, so I doubt it's a size problem either). I thought they were both based on the same code, working on plain ASCII email text files. Just put the large ASCII files into the local inbox and

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership

2004-11-20 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Tony Firshman wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 20:13:18, gwicks wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership BTW is it now policy not to send the mag to advertisers? The last one

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hello, Roy wood wrote: Just to put another issue into the mix here, John Mason called me last week and asked if I would organise the 2005 Hove show so it could be the AGM. I have looked into dates for this that would fit Quanta's schedule and I am preparing to book the hall for 17th April.

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 version 3.23

2004-11-15 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks for keeping up the good work... However, whenever a new version is released, I have to set up my configuration settings again - is there a way around this? Of course, Menuconfig - for a long, long time!!! Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[ql-users] QL Meeting in Spain

2004-11-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Why not in Spain the next year? We will celebrate the 20 aniversary of the QL Spanish Version. We have already place. It will be in Madrid, on March 5. would you like this? Well, we would like to come! Roy Wood, Marcel Kilgus and I have already discussed a possible meeting in Spain some months ago

Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers

2004-10-20 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Put another way my life is not dominated by the QL. When I have to buy a new printer there will be a lot of things I shall take into account in making my choice and the QL is just one of them. I am not going to waste time or money looking for a QL compatible printer when the QL community has

Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers

2004-10-19 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
studies to scrap direct printing from the QL completely.) Why? I use an Epson 740 connected to PC by usb and at one and the same time (can't spell simutainly) connected to a QL by parallel port ( it has a mac port also ), although I can't say if this model or an equivalent is still out there,

[ql-users] Menu_rext

2004-08-02 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Tarquin Mills wrote: Marcel Kilgus wrote: Michael Berger wrote: Completely agree. Having the configuration information within the executable file itself is a messy and error prone thing. Why's that? What's error prone about this? And once you're used to this, it's actually a piece of cake. Level

Re: [ql-users] Email problem

2004-06-13 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Thanks - seems to have gone through this time. Cheers Jochen Davide Santachiara wrote: The email address is actually ginosestilliATjumpyDOTit without the dot between gino and sestilli (I have called Gino on the phone to have this information) Please let me know whether this works or not Davide

Re: [ql-users] Printers

2004-05-09 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi Ian, Any suggestions about which colour printer to choose? Try to get an EPSON Stylus Color 900 or 980. They *DO* work. They are fast. The ink is dead cheap. Ebay is usually a good place to get them. Jochen ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] What happened at the AGM?

2004-05-04 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Oh well, I didn't get a copy of the report... was it posted on the ql-users mailing list?? Any news on the US show?? This and much more will be in the next issue of QL Today - which I hope will be ready for pick-up at the Hove show. If you have not renewed your subscription yet please do so, so

Re: [ql-users] Crumbs

2004-04-24 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
So, I blame Wolfgang for writing that game and Jochen for selling it. It seems to waste more time in this household than anything else. Still, if it wasn't for The Wall she'd never use QPC2 so I should be grateful I suppose. Glad you did not complain to your electricity company for delivering the

[ql-users] Email problems

2004-04-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
Hi everybody on the list, I read about missing emails. Well, very strange things are going on. I ran several tests with Wolfgang Lenerz, for example, and only 3 of 4 mails from Bruce arrived at j-m-s.com Mails from some sources do not arrive at j-m-s.com at all, although they are whitelisted

Re: [ql-users] Email problems

2004-04-10 Thread SMSQ - Jochen Merz
NOT all bounces are actually that, One of the methods used Spoofs just that, Bounces ! Of course, Bounces with a size 30k and ZIP attachments (or other nice things) have to be Virus spoofs - but I get the full range :-( Masses!!! Jochen ___ QL-Users