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From: "Roy wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
>
> I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an
> upgrade to Text 87 and suggested that he could pro
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 at 22:45:55, Roy wood wrote:
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Qliberator was another story but Ian Stewart, who was my only contact,
had only a small part in writing it. The other author, whose name
escapes me,
Adrian Soundy
had long since disappeared and the sources were not avai
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I think if QLiberator and Text87 were achievable, I suspect Roy Wood
and/or Jochen Merz would have secured them by now.
This is indeed true. I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an
upgrade to Text 87 and suggested
> > Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for
> > Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP
system.
>
> Of course, a small(ish) job, but one that could be incoporated into
a lot of
> programs. Perhaps we should start thinking of what sort of routines
we wo
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
> Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for
> Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP syste
- Original Message -
From: "Jeremy Taffel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You have said that Quanta is heading towards a £1000 a year structural
> profit. I am also interested in how much Quanta has in realisable assets.
> The reason I ask, is that as has been pointed out, the pond is now a
pud
> This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to
spend
> on QL development. How should they spend this money?
>
> In fact Quanta would have two possible ways of financially
stimulating QL
> development. Major projects (SGC successor?) could be financed out
of the
> capital. T
From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:52 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
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>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:22:18 +0100, Wolfgang Lenerz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't answered on this thread until now mainly because (in the first
attempt...) I wasn't sure whether that kind of money would conceivably
around
in this matter.
Now that Geoff has given more details, here's my
- Original Message -
From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [ql-users] £ 1000 to spend! (2nd attempt!)
> SNIP<
> I don't know whether offering something like 1000 pounds for software
would
> be a good idea.
>
> The reason is that it is, in my mind, too much and too l
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Geoff Wicks wrote:
This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to
spend on QL development. How should they spend this money?
On march, 8th, Laurence Reeves answered::
1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;)
That seems like a lot of cash
Geoff Wicks writes:
> Remember your subscription is your money, not Quanta's. How would you like
> them to spend it on your behalf?
In a way, hardware development is more deserving as hw developers have real
outlays apart from spare time, ie their "profit" can go negative rather than
just zero.
gwicks wrote:
> This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to spend
> on QL development. How should they spend this money?
> Remember your subscription is your money, not Quanta's. How would you like
> them to spend it on your behalf?
>
> Geoff Wicks.
>
>
Hi
Take a look
Geoff Wicks wrote:
This means that Quanta would have a sum of about £1,000 each year to
spend on QL development. How should they spend this money?
On march, 8th, Laurence Reeves answered::
1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;)
That seems like a lot of cash for what is a pretty trivi
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 23:37:39, Roy wood wrote:
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>
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>
>>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote:
>>(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>>
>>>
>>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
>>>
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote:
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or
so
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 at 20:00:03, Roy wood wrote:
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>
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>>The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or
>>so including VAT.
>It is 117.30 at Novatech
>
>and at
>
>www.hamil
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The 1430 is particularly good value from www.novatech.co.uk at £118 or
so including VAT.
It is 117.30 at Novatech
and at
www.hamiltone.co.uk
it is 113.50
Really, Tony, you not always sling money at these big organisation
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 12:53:19, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
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>
>
>> OK, I don't know much about Epson printers, I admit, but as to HP
>>printers, they
>> all _still_ understand direct (HPPCL-) commands and you can print
>>plain text to
>> them without a problem from the
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 at 12:28:33, Jérôme Grimbert wrote:
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>Only option so far is to be picky when buying the printer, checking
>that there is at least a parallel port (and one that does not need
>ECP/EPP, but plain good old parallel port, mono-directional... and no
>fan
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked
him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far
as he knows) it is bec
ql-users] Re: [ql-users] RE:
[ql-users] £ 1000 to spend!
> This is only part of the story. There is also a general move by the
> computer industry to have fewer interfaces and, by extension, fewer
> drivers on a system. USB II is much faster than Parallel - actually even
> USB 1.1 was.
>My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked
>him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far
>as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned
>by centronics, and royalties must be paid, whereas USB can be ado
This is only part of the story. There is also a general move by the
computer industry to have fewer interfaces and, by extension, fewer
drivers on a system. USB II is much faster than Parallel - actually even
USB 1.1 was. They also want to lose the PS/2 ports and use USB for
keyboard and mouse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked
him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far
as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned
by centronics, a
Dave P wrote:
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have to use OpenOffice on a PC to print QL documents, why not get
rid of the QL altogther and just use OpenOffice to begin with?
1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;)
Dave
That seems like a lot of cash for what i
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Simon Goodwin mentioned in the last QL Today that there are plenty
of
> > compatible printers out there, as Linux faces a similar problem
>
> Either this was not in QL Today or I really have missed something
here.
Letters page, page 36 of volume 8 issue 5.
The print
And use SBasic instead of Java :-))
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Dave P
Envoyé : lundi 8 mars 2004 16:41
À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : Re: [ql-users] RE: [ql-users] £1000 to spend!
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you have to use OpenOffice on a PC to print QL documents, why not get
> rid of the QL altogther and just use OpenOffice to begin with?
1000 pounds to the person who ports OpenOffice? ;)
Dave
OK : I misunderstood
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Marcel Kilgus
Envoyé : lundi 8 mars 2004 13:58
À : ql-users
Objet : [ql-users] Re: [ql-users] RE: [ql-users] £1000 to spend!
Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
> Alternative way (rat
Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
> Alternative way (rather then writing printer driver obsolete in a
> couple of month) : to provide a way to export documents with all
> attributes and print then with tools like, saiy, OpenOffice ..
The thing Jochen is talking about is not another printer driver but an
i
Last EPSON laser-color 600dpi 4/16 pages/mn SER/USB only costs 500EUR (A4 only,
without Ethernet card) : the price for a 300dpi b&w in the recent past ! Don't know
cost for replacement toner :-((
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Jérôme Grim
Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
Alternative way (rather then writing printer driver obsolete in a couple of month) : to provide a way to export documents with all attributes and print then with tools like, saiy, OpenOffice ..
That would help me a lot.
François Van Emelen
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De
OK, I don't know much about Epson printers, I admit, but as to HP
printers, they
all _still_ understand direct (HPPCL-) commands and you can print plain
text to
them without a problem from the QL.
I just checked the (German) HP homepage. I have not found
a single printer where the technical dat
Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities which we
have, unless you have specific printers - most modern, low cost printers
(eg 99% of the EPSON range) will only print graphics !! They do not
recognise a
string of plain ASCII text sent to them - this is why we are faced wit
Hi Jérôme,
Side-question: is the text87 patch available for Q40 ? (I read about it
for QPC). I'm lacking text87 in 1024x512 so far...
(And at which price... )
I don't know how many inquiries have been passed on to Marcel
and at which level he decides to invest more time...
I guess that non-QPC us
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
Prove me wrong but most of the "documents" would be a listing here
and
a small letter there. These can be printed without a problem using
the
small driver utilities we have for HP and Epson.
Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities whi
My "brother in law" works for lexmark (senior sales director) and I asked
him why Parallel has become extinct on "cheap" inkjets - he said ( as far
as he knows) it is because the Parallel interface is copyrighted and owned
by centronics, and royalties must be paid, whereas USB can be adopted for
Prove me wrong but most of the "documents" would be a listing here and
a small letter there. These can be printed without a problem using the
small driver utilities we have for HP and Epson.
Sorry - they cannot be printed with the small driver utilities which we
have, unless you have
In a message dated 08/03/2004 10:11:40 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
Heheheee, you might as well tell some of the customers:> alternative
way: write it down yourself using a typewriter.>>
Jochen>> Claude Mourier 00 wrote:>>>
Alternative way (rather then writing pri
In a message dated 08/03/2004 02:34:19 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> Simon Goodwin mentioned in the last
QL Today that there are plenty of> compatible printers out there, as
Linux faces a similar problemEither this was not in QL Today or I
reall
Heheheee, you might as well tell some of the customers:
alternative way: write it down yourself using a typewriter.
Jochen
Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
Alternative way (rather then writing printer driver obsolete in a
couple of month) : to provide a way to export documents with all
attributes and
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Heheheee, you might as well tell some of the customers:
alternative way: write it down yourself using a typewriter.
Jochen
Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
Alternative way (rather then writing printer driver obsolete in a couple of month) : to provide a way to export documents with all attributes and pri
Alternative way (rather then writing printer driver obsolete in a couple of month) :
to provide a way to export documents with all attributes and print then with tools
like, saiy, OpenOffice ..
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SMSQ - Jochen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Simon Goodwin mentioned in the last QL Today that there are plenty of
> compatible printers out there, as Linux faces a similar problem
Either this was not in QL Today or I really have missed something here.
> - however, I checked the link to the website he mentions
>
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