[ql-users] Dilwyn Jones' Mirror

2001-03-08 Thread Phoebus Dokos
For North American QL Users: A mirror of Dilwyn Jones' excellent QL pages are now hosted in the US and maintained by me. A preliminary speed test I did from Pennsylvania that I am located showed a speed improvement of about 25-30% over the regular DJ site (UK). For me (broadband connection) th

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Bill Waugh
Tony Firshman wrote: > > BTW my uncle had a farm in Rhydlewis, nr Llandysul, and I spent many > happy hours as a youngster on his tractor. He was a rocket engineer most > of the time in Aberporth. An interesting man (8-)# > Wicked Can't help wondering Tony, did he have any sheds (left) (;-) All

Re: [ql-users] COMPLETELY OT: Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 05:40 ìì 03/08/2001, you wrote: >What a gentle list this is, I apologise for the OT subject, no excuse >but we had a rough sort of week. >Last year on another list (Brit motorcycles, mostly american input) I >got a little too fired up when some of the good old boys started asking >for support

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Bill Waugh
Malcolm Cadman wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Waugh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Nothing personnel Malcolm > > No problem ... no offensive taken at all. > > A good discussion, unfortuneatly too OT for the QL list to pursue for > long :-) > > -- > Malcolm Cadman What a gen

RE: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Arvid Borretzen
I am the leader of a little laboratory testing food and water, and many of the things we do, can be made much more efficient with the aid of a computer. The official programs that we have to use, solve only the basic needs we have, and I have great joy (and use) of making programs solve the other

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Dilwyn Jones
>> At least your downloaded SMSQ/E stuff is extremely unlikely to suffer >> virus infection! (there...back on topic!) > >Mr. Jones, may I remind you that on 25th April 1998 in Selston Parish Hall >in the County of Nottinghamshire you did wilfully and with malice >aforethought infect my QXL with a

Re: SV: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I'm not 100% sure, but I think there was a program supplied with Turbo (written by Phil Borman?) called MAKE_KEYWORD_bas. I know Turbo can't directly create new keywords, although it's a feature I suggested to George Gwilt as a possible long term new facility to be looked into. -- Dilwyn Jones [E

Re: SV: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Timothy Swenson
On Mar 8, 7:40pm, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > I agree that programming on the QL is in fatc quite a joy - once you > have made the effort to learn how to do it. Programming on the PC (either in Windows or Linux) is easier from the aspect that there is more documentation, more tools, and more people.

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Geoff Wicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At least your downloaded SMSQ/E stuff is extremely unlikely to suffer > virus infection! (there...back on topic!) Mr. Jones, may I remind you that on 25th April 1998 in Selston Parish Hall in the County of Nottinghamshire y

Re: SV: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >At the risk of severe flaming : Why :-) >I am basically (no pun intended) a programmer at heart. >I like to program. >On the QL, programming is fun because yoy know how to get close to the >hardware - if you want to - and

Re: [ql-users] Nut cutlets - NO QL

2001-03-08 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Malcolm Cadman wrote: >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Branagh >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >Hi All, >> > >> >By Now, you all will have noticed my absence at the Hove Show - >> >unfortunately this couldn't be h

Re: [ql-users] Hove Show Apologies

2001-03-08 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <00d901c0a74e$4873a500$df075cc3@default>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I am taking advantage of the extra time to add more free QL software >to the CD to make best use of space (Darren will love me, it will now >take him twice as long to burn each CD!) > >>The Emulators CD

Re: [ql-users] coulours on SMSQ

2001-03-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Westbury wrote: > Thanks. BTW I have one small query about SMS.RESRI error return. QA.RESRI. > QDOS does not return any error (according to docs), but SMSQ can > return ERR_OM. The problem is; if there is enough space already on > RI stack then SMSQ code doesn't return d0=0. Can I guarante

Re: [ql-users] coulours on SMSQ

2001-03-08 Thread Dave Westbury
Marcel wrote: >Sure :) But sincerely, you know that I don't bite. Before you waste >your time again disassembling parts of SMSQ/E it might be worth just >to ask. Sure, I'm not allowed to give the sources away, but a keys >file here and then or a helpful code snipped shouldn't be a problem I >supp

Re: [ql-users] Wristwatch QL/Linux

2001-03-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:16:39PM -, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > >Not quite new but I found this page which claims that the prototype > >really runs X11R6 so UQLX would be no problem :) > >Pitty they didn't include any screenshots of X apps. > > > >http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/fact

Re: [ql-users] Wristwatch QL/Linux

2001-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 7 Mar 2001, at 19:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Not quite sure of such devices gaining wide acceptance, but it's a > brave experiment certainly. Do they speak with a Dalek voice? Wolfgang