On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:21:20 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
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
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 00:40:01 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
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
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:36:08 -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Just my two cents
(and pardon my cluelesness in many parts)
Just got the QDOS/SMS reference manual and begun (thanks partly to the work
of Norman with assembler and the good contributions of every savant one in
the list) to
On 1/8/02 at 2:11 PM Thierry Godefroy wrote:
Actually, the graphic cards device drivers are probably the most
complicated and sophisticated ones (especially when you take all
ancillary extensions into account, such as the pointer environment)...
I for one would hesitate to write such a
Thierry Godefroy wrote:
I don't deal with the present situation (there are still a few ISA cards
available), but with the _future_ one: if there is no PCI-based successor
to the Q60, then what the hell a future (say in five years) Q60 buyer will
be able to use with it ? No ISA card = no floppy,
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
