RE: [ql-users] Q40 people incompatible?

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Peter, (RE Subject - I'm staying out of this one by the way !) I've not forgotten about the Trump Card - I just haven't found it yet :o) I'll let you know ASAP. Cheers, Norman. PS. ROY : I think it was Peter who said the list was a waste of time. -

RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Darren . Branagh
Sorry Guys. Looks like my attempt to be funny has backfired!! ;-)) We do write is with a period here too, not a comma - I was just trying to be funy suggesting 2,000 euro = 15.99 Sorry ;-)) Darren Branagh, Consumer Lending Business, Bank Of Ireland Card Services, Nassau House, 33/35

RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Darren, Oh, I thought the Euro had gone down the toilet again :o) Anyway, £15.99 = EUR2000 is not a bad swap. - it'll be interesting to see if the Euro symbol comes across on email :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx

[ql-users] Open source

2002-03-21 Thread Christopher Cave
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no axe to grind as regards any particular platform on which to 'ql' (new verb). BUT I do hope that the arrival of open source, in whatever form, will be recognised as an opportunity not just to CHANGE the OS etc. but also to improve (or indeed to create)

[ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-21 Thread Christopher Cave
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter I am sorry if this is a time waster (I was off line for some days courtesy BT) but DID you get hold of a configurable TKII and a TrumpCard? Christopher Cave

RE: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Christopher, I've offered Peter a Trump Card - I just need to find it in the attic :o) Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL:

[ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Grunditz
Hi My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know how. I have no commuincation software on mdv, and I have never seen such serialports. The ql doesnt have a floppy interface. Any suggestions ? /Michael Grunditz

Re: [ql-users] Jochen Merz - Forwarded email

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 20 Mar 2002, at 18:44, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Why should it? In opposite to the other platforms QPC is still actively developed by me. This doesn't mean that you necessarily won't be able to build SMSQ/E for QPC. I could provide anybody who wants to do something with the necessary bits,

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Mar 2002, at 12:43, Michael Grunditz wrote: Hi My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know how. I have no commuincation software on mdv, and I have never seen such serialports. The ql doesnt have a

RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Mar 2002, at 9:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Guys. Looks like my attempt to be funny has backfired!! ;-)) Yeah well, we all know about irish 'humor'.. Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Mar 2002, at 9:08, Norman Dunbar wrote: Anyway, £15.99 = EUR2000 is not a bad swap. - it'll be interesting to see if the Euro symbol comes across on email :o) If you send it as EUR, it certainly will Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] Q40 people incompatible?

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Mar 2002, at 6:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 100% agreement from me Phoebus. If people want the QL/QDOS/SMS industry, albeit that it is small, to survive then there is no point in these protracted discussions about which is right or wrong. We must ALL learn to accept that different

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Grunditz
And how do I transfer sernet to the ql ? /Michael In message 3C99E729.19474.EEF91@localhost you wrote: On 21 Mar 2002, at 12:43, Michael Grunditz wrote: Hi My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know

RE: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
But I didn't send it as 'EUR' I sent it as SHIFT+ALTGR+4 which is the currencly symbol. Must have been changed by LookOut prior to sending. Cheers Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Claude Mourier 00
By typing all the code ;-) -Message d'origine- De : Michael Grunditz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : jeudi 21 mars 2002 15:03 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice And how do I transfer sernet to the ql ? /Michael

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Darren . Branagh
You'd probably be better off picking up a trump card or similar 2nd hand floppy I/F and a cheap drive unit - would probably be as cheap as getting cables made and trying to get SERNET on a MDV cart. Darren Branagh, Consumer Lending Business, Bank Of Ireland Card Services, Nassau House,

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Grunditz
If anyone has one he/she doesnt use , ... please conntact me. /Michael Grunditz In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: You'd probably be better off picking up a trump card or similar 2nd hand floppy I/F and a cheap drive unit - would probably be as cheap as getting cables made and

[ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Jerome Grimbert
A serial cable is all you need, with the right connection... One of the two must be a DTE and the other DCE. Best thing is to use Ser2 on QL with normal QL serial cable, (if you have one for a printer for instance). Then setting same baud rate and parity on both machines. copy_n (or just

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: How about sernet? Sernet needs SMSQ/E. I don't think the QL he refers to has that. Marcel

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel, are you sure it needs SMSQ/E - I used to use Sernet years ago before I had QXL, and I used it with no problems to transfer between my PC (windows 3.1, 4 MB RAM and 20 MB hard disc compressed to '40mb', 386DX running at 10 or 40 Mhz - how times change) to my QL (128 KB RAM, 68008 running

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Darren . Branagh
It wasn't sernet you were using I think, must have been some other serial transfer program. SERNET was written for QPC by Bernt Reinhard not that long ago... (I think, anyway!!) And yes, it does need SMSQ/E. Cheers, Darren Branagh, Consumer Lending Business, Bank Of Ireland Card Services,

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Um ! 'What the hell was it then?' I ask myself. I think it was DiRen who sold me it all those years ago. Thanks for correcting me (again). Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Darren . Branagh
Ah I vaguely remember Robin Barker (Di-Ren) doing a thing called QL Fileserver I think about 9-10 years ago. I think it connected a QL and PC and had software and the cables, and cost about 19.95. Actually, I almost bought it prior to getting a (then) cheap trump card from Steve

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 09:21:28, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Phoebus is referring to a problem his wife had cashing a bank draft I sent him to pay for some CF adapter samples. The cashier then asked Whats Ireland? (I kid you not, 40 million americans claim Irish decent, I am sure you

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
I think that's the one ! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From:

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 14:40:46, Jerome Grimbert wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) A serial cable is all you need, with the right connection... One of the two must be a DTE and the other DCE. Best thing is to use Ser2 on QL with normal QL serial cable, (if you have one for a printer for

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 13:59:05, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: (ref: 3C99E729.19474.EEF91@localhost) On 21 Mar 2002, at 12:43, Michael Grunditz wrote: Hi My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know how. I have no

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:10:15, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This may or may not work [someone else will tell you whether this is worth trying OR you can just give it a go] ... When I looked at the NETwork ports on the QL a long time ago, I (lacking the hardware expertise of

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Al Feng
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:46:34 + Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:10:15, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) snip THAT suggests that if you ascertain which SERial pins are in play, you _may_ be able to simply run a SERial connection from your

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Norman Dunbar wrote: [Sernet] are you sure it needs SMSQ/E Yes, it needs separate channels for sending and receiving. Only SMSQ/E provides that. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 21 Mar 2002, at 14:03, Michael Grunditz wrote: And how do I transfer sernet to the ql ? /Michael Well surely somebody on this list still has a QL with an mdv! Oh, and Marcel just said that SERNET needed smsq/e. Sorry.. wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 09:04 ðì 21/3/2002, you wrote: Norman Dunbar wrote: [Sernet] are you sure it needs SMSQ/E Derek Stewart on QLT Vol 5 Iss1 May/June 2000 p 31 says that it can work with a Trump and some serial extensions. Is that true or didn't I understand what the heck I was reading? :-) Phoebus

RE: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dunno - sorry :o( - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From:

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:57:29, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:46:34 + Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:10:15, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) snip THAT suggests that if you ascertain which SERial pins are

Re: [ql-users] Q40 people incompatible?

2002-03-21 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article GEHC5175S8287TSIF1XSOYXSLKWSR.3c994179@quantum-central, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ??? 20/3/2002 6:37:23 , ?/? Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: Snip One thing I would like to say... In light of the fact that we are probably in front of one of the most significant

Re: [ql-users] Open source

2002-03-21 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no axe to grind as regards any particular platform on which to 'ql' (new verb). BUT I do hope that the arrival of open source, in whatever form, will be recognised as an opportunity not

Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-21 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter I am sorry if this is a time waster (I was off line for some days courtesy BT) but DID you get hold of a configurable TKII and a TrumpCard? Christopher Cave Yes, someone did ask about

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Al Feng
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:33:28 + Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:57:29, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:46:34 + Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 08:10:15, Al Feng wrote: (ref: [EMAIL

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread ZN
I mentioned that I did not know whether or not the Q40 had the NET ports. THAT is why I suggested that a connection between the Q40's serial port and the QL's network port might work ... Al It doesn't really matter why it was suggested because it wouldn't work (not without serious extra

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Don't worry Darren, we have a guy from Co. Cork working with us this week...he's causing all sorts of problems too ;-) Now I just hope no Americanised Greek turns up while he's still there ;-)) (Nice story about the American bank emploee though...) -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 14:23:49, ZN wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Observing the ports in question (with not entirely adequate equipment!) may have resultind in the impression that the signals are the same - they are not. Also, the net port only has two pins, really - one is ground and the

[ql-users] QPC and ProWesS

2002-03-21 Thread RWAPSoftware
I have now downloaded the latest version of ProWesS from the progs website. I am still having problems running this under QPC - in QL colour mode, the ProWesS buttons are not drawn until after the button frame disappears on my boot program (not too much of a problem), but in high colour mode, QPC

Re: [ql-users] QPC and ProWesS

2002-03-21 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
Rich, You might have to check your PROforma_cfg file to see if you have all the bitmap drivers which are needed. You also need a mode33 driver (should be installed when doing a new install, but not on an update). Joachim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ql-users] Eindhoven

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 03:49 ìì 21/3/2002, you wrote: Don't worry Darren, we have a guy from Co. Cork working with us this week...he's causing all sorts of problems too ;-) Now I just hope no Americanised Greek turns up while he's still there ;-)) In that case I will make it a point to come and annoy you ;-)

Re: [ql-users] QPC and ProWesS

2002-03-21 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 21/03/02 22:10:03 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich, You might have to check your PROforma_cfg file to see if you have all the bitmap drivers which are needed. You also need a mode33 driver (should be installed when doing a new install, but not on an update).

[ql-users] QPC and Qascade

2002-03-21 Thread RWAPSoftware
I have now fixed my problems with running Qascade under QPC too!!! I went to Jonathon Hudson's site (Roy - you need to change your link on your website) and downloaded Qascade again. It was listed as v1.13 (same as mine), but thought I would give it a go. It is in fact a later version which

Re: [ql-users] QPC and Qascade

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Ôçí 21/3/2002 5:39:28 ??, ï/ç [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: Rich, note that your floppy problems may be on your Aurora end of things. Since the KnightSafe compresses files anyway, try to format the disks from the PC as regular DOS ones and then use these. SMSQ will write them allthough extremely

Re: [ql-users] QL Stuff needed

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 12:42 ìì 21/3/2002, you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter I am sorry if this is a time waster (I was off line for some days courtesy BT) but DID you get hold of a configurable TKII and a TrumpCard?

Re: [ql-users] QPC and Knightsafe/HD disks

2002-03-21 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 21/03/02 22:52:44 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich, note that your floppy problems may be on your Aurora end of things. Since the KnightSafe compresses files anyway, try to format the disks from the PC as regular DOS ones and then use these. SMSQ will write

Re: [ql-users] Looking for advice

2002-03-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Grunditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi My son (7 year old) is programming basic on a plain standard ql. Id like to give him some files from my Q40, but I dont know how. I have no commuincation software on mdv, and I have never seen such serialports. The ql

Re: [ql-users] Q40 people incompatible?

2002-03-21 Thread Roy Wood
I think that it's time to put away the knives and recognize that QDOS/SMS/whatever will die out unless we all pull together. I Totally agree. Come on people, grow up. I would completely fall in with the idea that we all get on and work together. Indeed I have said this on many occasions in

Re: [ql-users] QPC and Knightsafe/HD disks

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 07:02 ìì 21/3/2002, Rich wrote: No, Phoebus, I am definitely formatting HD disks on the Aurora (2440 sectors). The figures I gave were filelengths... I tried formatting the disks on the PC as well and this did not work either. Hi Rich, My bad... I misunderstood you... Playing too much

[ql-users] QPC 1.x and Win ME

2002-03-21 Thread Phoebus Dokos
Hi all, speaking of WinME, if anyone needs to make WinME boot in DOS in order to use QPC 1.x (I don't see why but you never know sometimes), contact me so I can send you a nice hack that will remove the #$@$#$ DOS hide feature of Windows. (This can help you also run BeOS Personal and dos-based

Re: [ql-users] Q40 to ql transfer

2002-03-21 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 at 20:26:30, Timothy Swenson wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) With a null modem cable (or Ser1 on the Q40 to Ser2 on the QL), it should be fairly simple to send ASCII data (and possibly binary). No no no no (8-)# Null modem cables are no good at all - in the UK at least they