into practice because it's some time since I
last produced a working version, Darren Branagh has contributed a lot
of ideas, even if the Users and MyQL sections have caused me most
work!
Next thing I need is a good free graphic of a rocket on a Launchpad to
use as a skin or BGIMAGE!
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?)
N, M and S - network devices (assuming these count)
(DEV, SUB, PTH etc don't count as they could I suppose be anything)
Any more known directory device driver names?
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Jones
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:14:57 -, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
URL:http
*_ in addition to the
likelihood of no clashes with existing directory names, hence the
original suggestion. But of course, that's why it's configurable, you
can use whatever short name you want!
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ware.html
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001c01c2d39e$8a4b9d60$8d36fd3e@blackpc, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Several people have had trouble with this. I made a mistake when
uploading the file which may have created the problem. I've
completely
uploaded the files again to make sure they are in the right
place. The
program
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FREE=(PEEK_L(163856)-PEEK_L(163852)-1024): PRINT FREE/1024
Bingo !! But, does this return the free memory or total installed
memory??
I think the former...
In SBASIC or Minerva speak, could also be:
sysv = 163840 : REMark QDOS
IF v$ = 'JSL1' OR v$ = 'HBA' THEN
bugs.
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm
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Better get a second drive, then they can both live in there together
to keep each other company ;-))
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- Original Message -
From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: [ql-users] QL Today CD
Just
/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm
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of the command generated followed by an exclamation mark
which will allow them to multitask, although they'll be suspended if
their windows are buried.
This email has turned out a bit longer than I thought (sorry
everyone), but might give you a clue as to how to write one to suit
your needs.
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Dilwyn
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
These new functions, written with much appreciated advice from
Marcel
Kilgus,
Glad you didn't mind me lecturing ;-)
Lecturing? I wouldn't exactly call that very helpful email being
lecturing!
Nice one regarding programming style: I have just spent
Likewise, have a look at Display2_cde now on my website, where I have
implemented the GD2 detection function and a few other useful
extensions.
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- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users
of it came onto land for some
reason (probably the weather). A black and white picture of it looked
not so much like snow, more as if firemen had sprayed the area with
foam or somethng.
Oops...how do I get back on topic after that?
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John's got some hope...it's been pretty good here most of the day,
although our driver ran into some snow a bit closer to John this
morning!
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Norman Dunbar wrote:
Re:
===
It's just like being in Wales !
Cheers,
Norman.
==
Go for him
it has
to do x and y clever things' requests which will involve creating
extra bytes in the file or some form of index file stored in Trash.
Trash is simply 'Move File Into A Directory Rather Than Delete' not a
full recycle bin.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins
Far too complex for what is a fairly simple compiled basic piece of
code as outlined. No chance whatsoever of this being done - Q-Trans
has no date handling routines or file stats facilities anyway, plus
the simple minded approach means the Q-Trash (or whatever you call it)
can be manipulated by
that was his
excuse for talking to himself, it drowned out the babble from the rest
of us!)
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Marcel Kilgus, who tells me that he
will consider a small change to the DOS device in future versions to
help me make Q-Trans more robust with the DOS device.
This latest Q-Trans can be downloaded from
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware.htm
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.
http://utenti.tripod.it/Sinclair
or
www.sinclair-ql.it
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tested on QPC2, I hope someone will be kind enough to
download and try it out on other platforms, especially on a system
with level 1 file handling.
The Decimal Invaders game mentioned by Darren on this list is also on
the same page. This is a pointer driven game.
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to add and start adding those before I finish
the other bits!
(Jim, hurry up and get QDT out, it might spur me on to finish
Launchpad more quickly).
I'm starting a new job on January 2nd, so there's another incentive or
obstacle depending on how it goes!
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the streets ;-))
(Darren has disappeared to his girlfriend's place for a week to escape
Decimal Invaders...he he)
BTW, any chance of a copy of the new improved snake...or are you still
working on it?
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and here in UK the better English is spoken by some of the Scots and
the
better English orators comes mostly from the Welsh.
Seasonal greetings to all - Bill
I notice no mention of Geordie, Bill
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and then proceed to
write perfectly understandable texts. Javier, Francois and others, we
understand you perfectly well even if we don't all speak fluent
Spanish/ French/ Dutch/ German/ Italian/Norwegian and all the other
first languages of members of this list
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Thanks guys. For being so nice about the program, once I've got the
directory versus filenames issue sorted out, you can have the sources
Phoebus!
Dilwyn
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject:
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware.html
or can be emailed to you if simpler for you! (It's part of Launchpad,
I'm releasing the stand-alone compnent programs separately, as they
are finished).
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL
change filenames when copying between directories. Copying a file
called letter_doc from win1_quill_ to win1_abacus_ will sometimes give
you win1_abacus_quill_letter_doc. This is something I'm working on!
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to collectors if nothing else.
I'll see what I can do ;-))
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!
It might be interesting to try to contact Mr Otridge to see if he
could be persuaded to allow this program to be put into P.D. as it's
quite a good program.
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unzip them and copy them to MDV for a bit of 1984 nostalgia.
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my QL Documentation
page in the Assembler Stuff section for now, until my Other Software
Page has a new home.
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/qldocs/qldocs.html
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Dilwyn Jones
and tried running them. They did run OK on
the 128K QL (well, run OK is perhaps stretching it a bit for those
old V1 programs!). If anyone wants copies for posterity...surely not!
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday
time! We may have said not nice things about
microdrives in their time...but they've proved reliable for me in the
long run!
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of weeks ago (not checked since)
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the full list, just your suggested
additions (or changes). The protocol that I use is:
A very inclusive list already ... well done !
I would add :
The Editor 2000
Some of Mark Knights programs ...
QTrans by Dilwyn Jones, and other programs by Dilwyn.
If you must, just my pointer driven programs
for many display modes, i.e. unless the mode was equal to pixel width
DIV 4 or something like that certain parts of the program got a blank
black screen.
Dilwyn Jones
-Message d'origine-
De : Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Envoye : samedi 30 novembre 2002 14:45
A : ql-users
Objet
Now up and running, the revised Dilwyn Jones QL website!
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/index.html
Webmasters, please update any links you may have to my old page on
Softnet, which will shut down soon.
I've updated my site in the Quantum Ring system. When I set about
doing that, I
Win drive)
Hmm, wouldn't have noticed this as I don't have unlinked win/dos
device son my system (all 8 win and dos devices used!). I'll try it at
work where only dos1_,dos2_,win1_ and win2_ are used.
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it will still be there.
Thanks Tony, I must be mistaken, anyone know where I could get a copy?
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Dilwyn Jones
Library Gen48
disk.
Hmmm, so what else do I have I don't know about ? ;-))
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of
the system under nowadays though.
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wanted to until I
remembered...)
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A help request from a user trying to run an old game on QemuLator.
Anyone able to help - in the hope he might register his copy if he
gets it to work! (I had a brief look and couldn't solve it)
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: John Leifer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
available from (um Dilwyn's web site ?)
Ummm, no, but I think I have the sources of some of Chas's
programs,
which he sent me when re released his ex-DP programs. Not sure if
that
includes compare...must have a browse. -- Dilwyn Jones
I have the source for Compare, but can't
, it was JM like my QL (Jones Mind).
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of the CDs without those files for N AMerica. This
will be most helpful.
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Dilwyn Jones
OK, those who looked into this when it was decreed that the QL ROMs
could be distributed, anyone know status of Tyche now? Or how to
contact Jonathan Oakley to see if he is able to release it?
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: TonyTebby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
not really difficult. Just a lot to master in one go. And a lot
of terminology to get used to. Norman's tutorial is a real step by
step basics guide.
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and
anyone is free to copy it (like the QL Emulators CD it was released
simply to try to help further the QL cause).
I had suspected that there was no 'official' reading method, as all
the information I'd seen seemed to be (vaguely) along the lines of
peeking information from this block.
Dilwyn Jones
from 98 to NT and 2000 (no Jonathan any more
AFAIK). No wonder I moan about the firm all the time is it ;-))
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Dilwyn Jones
. Thank you Marcel for allowing the dos devices to be redefined
to work around this!
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of Chas's programs,
which he sent me when re released his ex-DP programs. Not sure if that
includes compare...must have a browse.
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for Spectrum users. I would love to set up something like it for the
QL. At the moment, the QL DOcumentation CD is the best I can offer,
but at some point in the future I may get more web space if ever I
think I'll have the time to organise it all.
Wolfgang, do you have a QL website at all?
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Dilwyn
He he, the email he refers to had been sent just before I read
this...Norman knows me too well! (Sorry Norman)
Dilwyn
Ah, training for the job as a technical writer for the SMSQ/E
project,
jolly good :-)
Fraid not, I find it hard to find enough time to get articles
written - I'm
behind as it
It might make a nice short article for QL Today actually...a brief
explanation of what Tyche is, and what you need to do to get it
running in QemuLator plus the screen shots. QemuLator tends to be the
forgotten emulator which gets least mention, but version 2 is really
worth the money you pay to
!)
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and forgotten
I'd done the job!). Sometimes, some days, my brain just goes AWOL.
I blame nobody but myself and my own stupidity for once in my life!
At least, it helped to sort out a problem I would have had downloading
PDFs because of the PDF reader problem with IE5.
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run however and executes basic programs and its a little
faster (with a small
test I run) than MGx roms
Was sent to me by Simon Goodwin. Don't know much more about it and
have never seen it running.
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Dilwyn Jones
of the
archived files Marcel's kindly pointed us to.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Mouse
Phoebus Dokos wrote:
I've asked about this awhile ago but lost the reply
Thank you...I even did a news article for QLToday about this. Oops!
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Andrea Carpi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] GD2 programs.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am trying to draw up
routines?
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Wow, since my recent reformat of my hard drive, I've now got 705
messages in my email system, most of them from ql-users I think and I
know I've deleted quite a few as well. Of late, this list has got very
busy and very interesting!
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Dilwyn Jones
to make it run with QLAY your qlay.rc should look like this:
-r c:\roms\tyche-tra.rom
-c [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-l win2@sub2\qlay.dir
-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-f 11538.46
Replace the -f with the appropriate one for your machine
Phoebus
Hi Phoebus,
I've added this info to
Jones QL CD-ROMs, which
should make it easier for north Americans to get hold of those CD-ROMs
from him rather than struggle with dollar/Sterling/Euro conversions
getting them from Darren or me.
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Dilwyn Jones
: Re: [ql-users] Q-Emulator 2
??? 11/11/2002 3:10:55 ??, ?/? Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
??:
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Tyche ROM?
Marcel
According to Dilwyn that sent that to me, the Tyche was the
codename
for the
Super QL that was developed by Sirius
Ah, now I thought I was subscribed to ql-developers, but it's a long
time since I last had an email from it.
Would you mind sending me a copy of the email if you still have it?
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday
this site. IE just locks up each time I
try. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
I would love to download the QL manual PDFs!
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Dilwyn Jones
Thanks John.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: John Sadler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Today news
- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users List [EMAIL
Manual in Adobe PDF format in the Technical Docs section.
By following the link from my QL Net page to Javier Guerra's Sinclair
QL Spanish Resources page, you can also find a copy of the QL Service
Manual in HTML format.
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Dilwyn Jones
://www.soft.net.uk/dj/qllogo/qllogo.html
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Dilwyn Jones
and others.
These types of documents may well go on my QL Documentation CD. I
still welcome any further contributions for this - watch out for
something in QL Today soon.
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Dilwyn Jones
!
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Dilwyn Jones
with multiple section screens and PIC files.
I think GD2 has been around long enough by now for us to have a
serious go at documenting what's available.
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Dilwyn Jones
download zipped files OK. Once I got the Adobe/IE bit updated I
managed to download it OK.
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Dilwyn Jones
you are across this list.
Hopefully, your authority and knowledge will help to speedily clarify
and resolve this matter, to the good of all concerned.
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Dilwyn Jones
most of it.
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priceless.
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Dilwyn Jones
there has experience of using it,
if you'd like some info. Not absolutely sure but I think that uQLx and
QemuLator were both written from the same sources, but can't remember
which came first.
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Dilwyn Jones
of screen printing software with the
OS of other computers writing these is probably a dying art!)
Not sure if Prowess graphics routines can print high colour graphics
yet (Joachim?)
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Dilwyn Jones
like that ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones
Hello everyone,
It is time to start putting QL Today together once again. I'm a bit
short of both news and articles this time, so if anyone has material
to include in QL Today please send it to me as soon as possible.
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Dilwyn Jones
in :-)
Sounds great. Id like to order now. How much? ;)
Per
I am afraid you'll need to wait a little bit and in any case you
should contact Rich ;-)
It's been splashed across Rich's adverts for a while now, albeit with
no real information on what it was other than the name itself.
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Dilwyn Jones
that the Super
Gold Card, QIMI and Q40/Q60 demand was known yet did sell.
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Dilwyn Jones
if he does decide to pursue this any further.
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Dilwyn Jones
Usually every toolkit has a name. IMO the prefix should be derived
from that. This can as well be the name of the author (anybody
remember Beule-Tools from Peter(?) Beule?).
As we're talking about SBASIC, I have spent much time
in the near future to get in
touch with you to help you to gauge demand for them.
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Dilwyn Jones
is still present.
Weird.
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Dilwyn Jones
on working fine without them apart from issuing a message to say
they weren't found! Unzip 5.32 for example will complain sometimes
when it starts but seems to work fine for general unzipping.
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Dilwyn Jones
...)
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Dilwyn Jones
, Phoebus's suggestion of removing
the Office 97 item from the Startup menu seems to have cleared the
problem, I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks guys.
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some thoughts. I can check out the
scenario on
NT4/W2K/XP if you want - but you seem to think that you do not have
problems
on those OS.
No. It's known not to happen on NT and 2K. Not been able to try XP
though.
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on my website
www.soft.net.uk/dj/software/other/other.html
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completely fail to start, the SGC gave a 'contact
Miracle Systems' message and stripes ont he screen.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 September 2002 00:08
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Weird problems with Aurora/SGC
At 06:58 ìì
programs
will of course be available from my PD library service.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
and will be added to the PD library and CD-ROMs on which it appears.
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Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
using backplane power supply or
QL power supply, as stated in the manual.
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Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
updated by Phoebus...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
any idea what I've removed or damaged in error? I hate having
to restart the PC every time this prevents me using QPC2!
(Don't like the thought but I may well end up reinstalling!)
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Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
is good, and between them Peter and DD seem to have such
a good product on their hands.
Accordingly, by all means get this off your chests lads, but don't
forget also that the Q60 is such a wonderful system when you actually
get to use it!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj
documentation). If you really want to
make work for yourself ;-) use Jonathan Hudson's CATDOC port for QL to
extract text from the Word files.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
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