On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
No we won't. Look. No one has to pay for SMSQ/E twice. If you have a
copy of SMSQ/E for your platform then upgrades are free. I feel that
many of you think that the rule that binaries should not be distributed
for free applies to
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:06:31AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter
Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy Wood wrote:
CAN WE APPROACH A SOLUTION HERE ???
Note that I said I 'was' in favour.
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood.
I seriously thought you were interested in a
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:18:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May I remind everyone that
by gaining access to the source, you will essentially be able to use code
that someone somewhere has paid for to be written, essentially for free. It
logically follows that any contribution
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 May 2002, at 23:22, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
this is reasonable - but it makes it even more clear that the license
has a problem. Someone buys HW with SMSQ included, his vendor/original
reseller goes out
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 May 2002, at 23:38, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Because instead of answering in a civil an unemotional way you get provoked
into escalating the flame wars, and often don't address the legitimate (in
their minds) concerns
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:34:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
On 22.05.2002 14:47:27, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
Roy you are playing with fire.
Everyone who goes into discussion with P. or C. Graf, is playing with fire!
And I know what I'm talking about!
You might consider beeing
and here the problems start. The people have already paid for
SMSQ so the new reseller is practically only supposed to distribute
upgrades and provide support. This appears even less interesting
for potential resellers because they can hardly charge very much
for an upgrade.
Most upgrades
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:01:19AM -0700, James Hunkins wrote:
Hey Guys,
I have finally decided to join this list as my work on QDT progresses
(thanks Marcel for recommending that I try this). Was putting it off
due to time constraints but now seems like a good time with a cry or two
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:31:38PM -0700, James Hunkins wrote:
Guys,
I am thinking of using rudimentary HTML file viewing capabilities for
the QDT help system. I could use some recommendations for programs to
look at (if there are any) that give the following:
1) works in normal
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:39:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 19 May 2002, at 16:40, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
unfortunately your inconvenience is only the smaller problem. The
bigger one - what happens if you are fed up and go out of business?
There are perhaps 100s of users
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 18 May 2002, at 1:22, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Wolfgang,
I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with
Richard's comments on the proposed licence.
I'm not cheesed off by the reply. I'm
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
than the license is very badly engineered. It enforces discipline
by rather brute methods that will only hurt people who would like
to help and leaves too many important points wide open.
I have proposed alternatives to
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 18 May 2002, at 12:13, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
(...)
so don't comment private correspondence and answer the
questions.
So rephrase the questions without reference to private
correspondence.
someone else happened
promised the code would be
free from non-68060 instructions, but I do *not* criticise Tony therefore.
Overall I am very happy with all the efforts Tony put into Q40 SMSQ/E!!!
Fine. (Richard Zidlicky was wrong here IMO.)
I appreciate his efforts but there is a few details that remain
to be fixed
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:50:06AM +0100, Dexter wrote:
If I end up handling hardware sales, would I have to become an SMSQ
reseller? I'm not qualified. But if the resellers declined to offer the
ZYXABC version of SMSQ (as they have done with the Qx0) I would have no
choice but to find
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:05:42AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
Interestingly, not all legitimate commercial interests
are served equally humbly here. When Peter Graf tried
to acquire the right to give away (for free) SMSQ-Q40
binaries in exchange for a substantial payment to TT
he was
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:52:06AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
This is surely not a problem because the technically advanced can have
the source code and do the fixes, pass these back to Richard and he can
get them into an 'official' UQLX SMSQ/E.
that is the optimist view. However there is
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:43:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a couple of spare manuals here (printed format) - sorry, don't know if
there is a version on a website anywhere..
thanks, I have forwarded the information.
Richard
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:18:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16 May 2002, at 13:28, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
can you say me how exactly the license requires
the resellers to provide support? In our private
discussion you went to great lengths to ensure me
how they are required
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:39:29AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote:
I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with
Richard's comments on the proposed licence.
I missed out on some of this because I have been trying a new spam
rejection program which was harder to
...
3/ No distribution of SMSQ/E may be SOLD, except
for the official distribution. This interdiction
includes that of including and distributing
SMSQ/E in Public domain libraries.
Official distributions will be sold in compiled
(binary) form, possibly together with the
official
Hi,
an UQLX user asked me where he could get Minerva manuals.
Any advice?
Richard
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:41:48PM +0100, P Witte wrote:
.
I think, on the whole, it would be more sensible for programs that expect
an unknown - possibly vast - quantity of items as in my original example,
to be more elegantly written with that in mind..
depends, if 'xargs' is good enough
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:46:45AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Apr 2002, at 22:59, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
nope, the problem is more complicated, I guess you have formatted
that QXL.WIN file on a QPC drive.
That's true.
On Q40/Q60 and Atari the IDE bus is connected
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:12:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of this can be done with xargs as well ...
I haven't looked at xargs yet, in fact I've played with Unix very little since I've
had the Q40. I must try to find the time to install it on a spare PC here at work -
won't be
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:15:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 24 Apr 2002, at 11:28, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Wolfgang,
it's not 'stupid' it's Intel 'little Endian' format.
I know, I know, it's still stupid.
OK, it *is* stupid :o)
Yeah right. Why doesn't the same thing
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:08:33AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
There is no standard way to get a file re-directed to be treated as a
command line in c68.
You can do file level re-direction and then process the input as though it
comes from stdin. The standard c68 start-up code will handle
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:15:39PM +0200, Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Hi,
I am moderately optimistic about GTK, next version of it is rumored
to be able to run on simple framebuffer devices and that would be very
simple to do in QDOS.
Richard
I'm new in the users-group, Richard (or who else),
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
??? 6/4/2002 3:10:11 ìì, ?/? Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??:
Qpaintshop Pro
Now why would you want a PaintShop Pro clone on the QL...? Paintshop is one of the
worse graphics programs I've ever used (and
trust me I know my
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:34:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(soundforge)
you don't have to, but there is nothing in the copyright statement
that would forbid anyone from keeping an inofficial mirror on Sourceforge
or wherever. Your paragraph 5 appears to allow that explicitly.
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:34:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Thank you all for your patience whilst waiting for me to read and
digest all of your comments. I hope most of your concerns will be
addessed below. I now have had enough time to read all your replies,
requests
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:11:32AM +0100, P Witte wrote:
was Re: [ql-users] DIANOUX [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Waugh writes:
No need for tantrums lads, I think I started this merely by mentioning
that
I had received a virus twice from the same source, would you rather I had
kept quiet
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:25:46PM +0100, P Witte wrote:
Hiall,
This is the third virus Ive had from [EMAIL PROTECTED] within
the last couple of months. So far I have escaped, but sooner or later
someones going to take a hit.
to be more precise, someone using the unfortunate email
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:09:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 02/04/02 00:05:37 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two problems which I am unable to solve exist (do far), namely
Deathstrike and Hoverzone - both of these
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:08:08PM +, Roy Wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
BIG SNIP
I DO believe though that potential developers should be able to
distribute their builds of SMSQ/E for free if they choose so. (Emphasis
on free) because
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:24:13AM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
1. The copyright for SMSQ/E is retained by Tony Tebby (Nothing weird here,
just like Linux)
1. There are (currently) two official distributors of LICENSED binaries and
ONLY official Distributors can SELL SMSQ/E.
2. The
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:39:27AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Following the discussions at EIndhoven,here is what has been agreed upon,
Tony TEBBY also having agreed to it:
In short:
Whilst Tony Tebby will retain copyright over the code, anyone may have a
copy of the
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:22:53PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 26 Mar 2002, at 12:25, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
as far as I could understand the statements I am not sure whether it is
allowed to give away SMSQ in binary form (whether or not acompanied by
sources), can you please
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:18:27PM -0500, ZN wrote:
On 2/27/02 at 7:50 PM Dave wrote:
There were two types of mouse interface...
One was a 9 pin serial mouse, and the other was a DIN socket that also
used a serial mouse, but I don't have the pinout. I recall most were
the 9 pin
Hi,
anyone here having programing experience with Mac OS X ?
Bye
Richard
Hi,
I have uploaded a new UQLX version yesterday, among other
changes there was an incompatible change in the TCP/IP stack:
previously the names of the devices were 'tcp_','udp_','uxs_',
'uxd_','sck_', this has lead to far to many conflicts when
programs expected files with similar names so the
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:40:20AM +, Robert Newson wrote:
Stupid question: how is the soft-remapping stored?
I only ask as it seems obvious that this has to be constantly re-written
each time a sector's physical location changes - or am I thinking too much
in terms of disk
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:45:28AM +, Roy Wood wrote:
In message K$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
It seems you just stick with the one that you used first.
No. I used Turbo but got so fed up with having to rewrite code to cope
with its foibles, that I got
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:07:52PM +, Michael Grunditz wrote:
Is there any elf producing compilers for qdos/sms ?
elf object code? No. qdos-gcc does exist (see Thierry's webpage)
but it produces output for as68 which in turn produces normal
SROFF files. It won't be hard to use gas and ld
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:55:53PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 7 Feb 2002, at 16:11, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
Btw, out of 821 messages I have (selectively) archived of this group
a mere 172 were sent using Outlook. Eudora 262, Turnpike 68, Bat 37,
sylpheed 24, Lotus 6, Calypso
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:14:38AM -, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Please don flame proof clothing before reading this !!
BEGIN RANT MODE
Bye bye then Peter.
I think your attitude sucks (to be quite brutally honest) but you have made
your choice to go, then so be it.
I think your hardware
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:51:08AM -, Norman Dunbar wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Phoebus R. Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] List etiquette. (Was: ms-users-and-smalltalk-list)
5. No
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:48:03PM -, Norman Dunbar wrote:
[RZ]If the general consensus (as you claim) is that more than 80% of talk on
[RZ]this list should be devoted to some M$ virus nonsense he won't be the
last
[RZ}one to quit.
Well, I never claimed 80%, or indeed any figures,
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:10:22PM -, Norman Dunbar wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Richard Zidlicky
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] ms-users-and-smalltalk-list
[ND] I think your hardware
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:48:05PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:27:56PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
One of the superb features is mail routing - which creates a newsgroup
like tree based
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:27:56PM +, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
One of the superb features is mail routing - which creates a newsgroup
like tree based folder for groups such as this.
Yes, the tree listing of emails in a newsgroup is amazing to watch !
interesting to read that basic MUA
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:35:10PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
At 08:12 ìì 1/2/2002 +, you wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus
R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Just to add a little something to my previous announcement,
The next version will have also support for RLL
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:15:35AM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
P.S. We also have one tug-of-war going on with them... I am trying to
convince them to compile for m68k (Q40) Linux :-)
I can compile it if I get the sources.
Oh I know, but it's closed software and that is very very
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Richard Zidlicky wrote:
NT/MS having stricter access policy than Unix?
Well, I don't know how that's handled by Unix, but on Windows it's
The caller must have administrative privileges for the operation to
succeed on a hard
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:10:43AM +, Michael Grunditz wrote:
Hi
Thanks for all help , my serial mouse works perfectly and the q40 runs
like a dream.
Now , one more question.
Is it possible to read qxl.win files on my q40 ?
qxltool will read them. Depending on your setup you may
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:04:26PM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
P.S. For QPC2 v. 4.00 ;-) do you plan to access native SMSQ/E or QubIDE
partitions??? (Say for QL formatted media like a Zip drive or a.
CompactFlash card?)
No. No way I can get direct sector
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:19:32AM -0800, Fabrizio Diversi wrote:
One question : at this point how difficult will be to
write a software to write cd-rw on smsqe ?
it might be even easier than reading it, as long as you
don't attempt to generate ISO9660 with all bells and
whistles.
Thierry,
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:16:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
On 13 Jan 2002, at 19:22, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:45:05AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
NOT AT ALL !!! This is perfectly documented: the documentation for the
IOSS (see the QDOS/SMS
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:01:05AM +, Dexter wrote:
Hi again :o)
I think it would be really useful to get QLs connected to networks more
easily. Therefore, I've commenced the following project: EtherQL. I know
nasta has a similar project in late planning stage, but I think Goldfire
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:45:05AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
NOT AT ALL !!! This is perfectly documented: the documentation for the
IOSS (see the QDOS/SMS reference manual) DOES says that A0 must stay
unchanged or at least be restored if the device driver did not recognize
its own
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote:
we have FAT fs support in SMSQ, are you saying it didn't work with
the CompactFlash?
No, I ain't saying that. Just thought it worked only with floppies.
would be worth trying, the code doesn't look like its limited
to floppy. I
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:25:04AM -0500, ZN wrote:
2) How far does the design move from the GF implementation to an ISA (even
if only Q40/60 ISA) implementation. This impacts interrupt line routing and
base address selection (which in turn impacts the PnP initialization
values), 8/16 bit
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
Also you wouldn't have to remove or disable the IOSSS module (possible
according to TT) and at the same time effectively kill the slave blocking
mechanism... no block devices no slave blocks ;-) hehe
Slave blocks are NOT
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:47:36PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Also for QPC users a CF could hold either a QXL.WIN file or been seen as a
DOSx_ device, (and you get the added bonus of using it for a PC).
I don't know if QPC can directly read Q40/60 or QubIDE formatted media but
if it
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:57:31PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
With memory sizes what they are today, we could also just dedicate an
amount of memory for slaving only, no need for any overlaps. Overlaps would
only happen if the actual RAM was smaller or equal to the maximum slave
block
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Hmmm another undocumented feature... nothing in the SMS reference manual
:-) Or at least I didn't see it. Thanks Richard
it is documented (like any other undocumented feature) in Hans-Peter
Recktenwalds Programmieren in
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:23:17PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote:
Hi Claude,
Any chance to get USB (for digital still camera for instance, as even fast
RS232 is very slow) ?
Our QDOS/SMSQ software development shortage practically prohibits to work
on USB host hardware. And even the hardware is
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:53PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
Yes, free.fr is EXCELLENT (and I am pretty demanding on the ISP quality);
the only grief I got against them is that they do not allow you to setup
a telnet (or ssh) account on their servers (therefore I cannot transfer
a my
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:00:33PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
I don't use the non-directory device driver IOT implement the CDROM device
driver (which will indeed be a legal SMSQ/E directory device driver): I use
a FAKE non-directory device driver so to intercept the long filename,
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:35:12PM -, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
What, the driver? Not really.
Wrong question... what I meant is... is it read (the status of the
mouse)
at the same addresses as QIMI ?
Certainly, if you're using a QIMI interface. But not on QPC,
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:38:48PM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
maximum name length (including directory path) 36 chars
I already explained on this list how to circumvent this problem under
SMSQ/E. In fact, with my trick, you can use up to 32765 characters
(QDOS string
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:32:14AM +0100, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
the problems are QDOS specific:
- drivers can be practically written only in assembler,
True, but as far as I am concerned (I don't want to restart the assembler vs
C flame war), this is not a problem but a GOOD THING !
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:58:08PM +, Dexter wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Peter Graf wrote:
PCI instead of ISA on Q40/Q60 would give you:
*No* expandability under QDOS/SMS at all.
Peter, thanks for explaining where the problem lies...
Could you just fill things out a little
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:16:42PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote:
The reason why we don't emphasize the slots are the current lack
of QL software drivers for anything but IDE, FLP, SER, PAR.
The only thing I can see missing from that list that I consider important
is ethernet.
We have
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:22:34AM -0500, ZN wrote:
Actually, the biggest problem with the 68k family is that Mot. does not
want to sell the licence to anyone else, so that even FPGA cores that
implement the same instruction set are, strictly speaking, illegal.
Besides, there are compatible
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:08:18AM +0100, Urs König wrote:
Does anybody know what sector per cluster gives the best
performance in a QXL.WIN File? respectively what if at all
the user can control in this aspect?
SMSQ has a maximum of 65535 clusters per filesystem it can
address. Iirc it will
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:51:49AM +, Tony Firshman wrote:
W98 died at the first sign of problems - blue screen saying cannot read
from drive C - and that was it. W98 never even started to load from
then on.
Under Linux, things continued apparently normally for a very long time.
The
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:13:46AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
I have found at a local store two (!) different ISA card
that would provide additional IDE drives for my Q40.
(ISA is really becoming hard to find !)
But before I buy one of them, is there something particular
I should
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Richard Zidlicky wrote:
The price is about 260 FF ( that 25 £, or 40 Ecus/Euros).
Is-it normal price, or can any of the dealer provide me with a
cheaper and warranted solution
seems like a good price. Also the relatively low
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:19:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...(although Ian Pine does that to me via the mailing list each time).
Unfortunately this is not something I have any control over. Our
company email system adds the text attachment to all outgoing emails
after we've hit
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:44:46PM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
The best solution would be to use a better mailing list package. Majordomo
doesn't make temporary absences easy to cope with from the subscriber's
POV - you have to unsubscribe. Most of the mailing lists I use a lot are
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:39:22PM +0200, Peter Graf wrote:
Per wrote:
I would probably have followed a similar policy. However, I do it for
the silence. Admittedly it is not ideal. A 128 Mb flash disk would be
nice ;)
If you're willing to use something not 100% tested, I could provide
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:57:17PM +0200, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Richard Zidlicky wrote:
uhmm, I assume you set the drive asleep using some of the sleep
commands. Don't do this! Life expectancy of drives is measured
in spinup cycles, not hours of idle operation. Modern drives will have
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:37:50PM +0200, P Witte wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question regarding the SMSQ/E Hard disk driver on my Q60.
The issue is outlined in the correspondence quoted below. Any idea,
anyone?
When my hard disk has stopped, and some access attempt
wakes it up again,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:46:09AM +0100, Derek Stewart wrote:
The Q40 SMSQ/E does not say that anthing other than WIN1_ can be used with
the WIN_FORMAT command.
But if you enter WIN_FORMAT 1 and try FORMAT WIN2_, you get a Access Denied
error message.
So the correct syntx for
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:06:19PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote:
But in mucking with my system, I seem to have totally blown all partitions
(even Linux). All I did was disconnect the HD and run a bit with just the
Syquest attached. Is it OK to run with just a Slave IDE device and no
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:37:00PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote:
At 12:10 AM 7/11/2001 +0200, Richard Z. wrote:
I have reformated my /dev/hda2 today with
qxltool -W /dev/hda2 0 xx xx xx
and it worked perfectly.
I tried it using 256 instead of the 0 (since it's 256 MB partition). That
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote:
After my adventure with the Syquest drive, I thought I would use qxltool
and see if I could get my second QWA partition working.
I figured I would use qxltool to format the second partition and then see
if I can accesses it.
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:24:16AM -0400, ZN wrote:
[snip]
I wonder if dual channel IDE controllers are supported on the Q40, if so,
that may solve your problem, you could have all the devices hooked up
permanently.
both SMSQ and Linux support at least 2 IDE controllers, I use 2 of them
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:25:18PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Yes, they are meant to be viewed on a QL.
There are several PC to QL file transfer programs available (Discover
from Dave Walker running on a QL, WXQT2 and WXQLTool from Jonathan
Hudson both running on Windows or Linux systems,
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:21:47PM -0400, ZN wrote:
On 7/1/01 at 7:15 PM Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Executables can be tested via the FTYP function (type 1 is executable)
of Toolkit 2.
Yes, they could also be identified (and some more interesting info gleaned)
from the first couple of bytes,
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:59:12PM +0200, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
A small progress reports:
It works... :-))
great!
I now can get direct access to a CD-ROM on my Q60 with:
OPEN #3,cdr1_*d2d (for 512 bytes blocks access, or *d4d
for 1024, or *d8d for 2048)
I assume
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:06:17AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
My DiscOVER can already read CD's if it can get direct sector access (it
can also handle DOS format hard disks if the same can be done).
Unfortunately it appears that none of the current emulators give this level
of access to the
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:13:41PM -0400, ZN wrote:
Well, I hate to be a party breaker, but guess what: all standard CD file
systems have a deeper directory structure and/or longer names than the
QL
is capable of handling with it's 36 character path+name limit.
Wrong! ISO9660 is
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:42:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was going to suggest accessing unsupported filesystems by reading the
device as a stream, but seem to recall trying something similar in the
past and finding that because the partition it represents is a fixed
size (and
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:01:02AM +0100, Q Branch wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry
Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60
(I think I can announce it officially now as things build up nicely and
I will
At 04:52 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
Richard wrote:
there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN
Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files
inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS.
Time
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Derek Stewart wrote:
Hi there,
Well OK, the long struggle is over, I will look at the Atapi tape streamer
??? never seen one of those yet. They have always been Floppy or SCSI.
I have installed a Quantum DLT 8000 at work, but that is SCSI 3 and
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:13:23PM +0100, John Hitchcock wrote:
As I said earlier in this thread -
I'm getting fed up with such thoughtless attacks on everything MS...
we aren't exactly an MS fanclub here. Otoh Nobody will bother
to comment the quality of MS products as long as they don't
SNIP
Anyway it will only affect people who are foolish enough to run M$
mailers.
SNIP
Tony, that will only stop it from spreading outward from your, ahem, PC. It
won't stop it running its payload - which is apparently to delete a few
files at random then later on, format your hard
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