I'll get 'lambasted' for these awful puns
now :-)
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Dilwyn Jones
Hey - I'm willing to accept anything as payment - though preferably
only
sheep that have been slaughtered and carved up so I do not need a
new freezer...
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Rich Mellor
OK, I'll test this by ordering a program from you. 20 best Welsh sheep
in the post to you tonight ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones
permitting, I might put a little summary of recent changes and
version numbers into QL Toady soon.
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Dilwyn Jones
in particular) that is of
interest to me!
The software Peter is producing seems too important (...)
Not if it isn't made available.
Hmm, yes. Pity.
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Dilwyn Jones
On 18 Mar 2004 at 14:00, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Space permitting, I might put a little summary of recent changes
and
version numbers into QL Toady soon.
Want me to wend you a text file with the changes?
Wolfgang
I've taken what's on your website, unless you have more?
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Dilwyn Jones
more non-members cannot!
Exactly! There are plenty of lurkers on this list too, so let's see
what we can come up with, would be great to hear from members on this
list who don't write that often!
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Dilwyn Jones
many, many years ago, but never used
one and didn't really believe they would work anyway...surely a TV on
in the
background or something would make it not work?
(Back to my flat earth books...)
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Dilwyn Jones
try to use them in SBASIC,
either nothing happens or weird error messages.
(Using Easyptr part 2 v3.50 on QPC2 v3.12)
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Dilwyn Jones
releases alongside
the other versions.
Just a thought in passing to prevent all this rubbing salt into old
wounds and these matters going round and round in circles all the
time.
The software Peter is producing seems too important to allow the
endless argument to get in the way.
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Dilwyn Jones
who write mostly in compiled basic
could easily use it, and the assembler entries could probably be
easily made available to C programmers too.
Does this fall into the parameters of what you were looking for
Geoff - the possibility of paying someone to extend the SDUMP system.
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Dilwyn Jones
of the area into a suitably sized patterns
and blob or sprite
make this the current pointer for that channel
drop it when button released again
else
release partial save area
go back to normal
end if
else
normal actions
end if
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Dilwyn Jones
of the
day, drivers are largely filters which convert one form of data into
another. (Here's a block of QL graphics in memory, convert it into
Epson bit image data mr printer driver sir)
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Dilwyn Jones
Thank you.
Dilwyn Jones
...Easyptr only allows 8 character sprite names and 64x48
pixel sprites in 4 colour mode)
The last one is not correct. I can load without problems very large
true colour sprites into as well the old Easymenu as the new
Easymenu (by Marcel).
It looks a bit strange
I've now added a 'generic' disk system manual to my website, suitable
for most disk interfaces using QJump-FLP-type systems. It's as a Word
.DOC file because of the inclusion of diagrams, but I do have a Quill
DOC file version plus QL PIC files for anyone not able to handle Word
files.
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Dilwyn
/launchpad.html
and follow the link at the bottom to the Launchpad downloads page.
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Dilwyn Jones
and Flashback) worked for Skoglund at Medic
for a while. I seem to remember some horror stories such as being
taken to Ireland to work on the system software and having to work in
cold, unheated houses etc etc.
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Dilwyn Jones
used it, though I seem to remember it
could only cope with a very limited number of typefaces and text size.
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Dilwyn Jones
/dilwyn.jones/index.html
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Dilwyn Jones
before the Thor series of
machines? I'm
guessing that they were.
Cheers
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Adrian/Witchy
Yes, though I don't have the exact dates they were available.
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Dilwyn Jones
face soon lit
up once
the patch had been shown to work.
I think ESC K is a standard 'low-density' graphics code on Epson
printers, assuming the bit image data format is the same. Certainly,
much of the limited code set supported seems the same as early 9-pin
Epson dot matrix printers.
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Dilwyn
ql-users your_old_email_address
Put your old email address in place of your_old_email_address
obviously.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [ql-users] ql-users mailing list
Thanks, will add this to the manual.
I've seen articles about the printer and graphics in old QL magazines,
but decided that it must be an unofficial facility as it wasn't in the
manual. Now I know better.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Robert Newson has kindly sent me an update to the Ser8056 thermal
printer manual, which covers the graphics mode it supports. So I have
updated the manuals on my website's QL documentation page.
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qldocs.html
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Dilwyn Jones
.
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Dilwyn Jones
ql-users your_old_email_address
Put your old email address in place of your_old_email_address
obviously.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [ql-users] ql-users mailing list
on, I thought the existing 30 or so TV channels
was the maximum!
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Dilwyn Jones
...also QL connection of underdog taking on bigger
brother...Top Up TV vs Sky).
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Dilwyn Jones
of the software costs
too.
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Dilwyn Jones
Thanks Tony, will add it to the QL Documentation CD ... when I get an
hour or six to download it :-)
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Dilwyn Jones
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:46:35, Tony Firshman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is for 'witchy' (I wonder who he is (8-)# ) and Dilwyn
especially.
A zipped pdf
what's on that EPROM now, probably
the Superhermes code or something like that?
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Dilwyn Jones
-To-Air I should be able to get it
from the Sky box too (I'm too mean to subscribe to Sky!)
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Dilwyn Jones
.
Wow...my PeeZee actually managed to go for a whole 9.34MB download
without crashing once...I'm in shock!
Now to try unzipping it before I get over-confident...
I'll add it to the QL Documentation CD as soon as I get a chance!
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Dilwyn Jones
THOR MANUAL
Thanks to Tony Firshman, I have now added the Thor manual PDF file to
the QL Documentation CD, which is now at version 2.7.
The PDF file is about 10MB long, you will of course need the Acrobat
file reader or similar utility to read and print it.
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Dilwyn Jones
always subscribe to
QL Today magazine (plug plug again).
[Geoff Wicks for Quanta chairman or editor if he retires from trading,
now that Robin Barker is stepping down!!!]
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Dilwyn Jones
%=timeout to return
MCALLT only works with SMSQ/E from v2.84 or WMAN from v1.52
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Dilwyn Jones
on the use of control
codes from QL to printer for the magazines? It's been done before, but
can never have too much information on tricky subjects like this!
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Dilwyn Jones
Select. ESC! n;
While this would work, it shouldn't be necessary - just sending the SI
code above should be all you need!!!
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Dilwyn Jones
text list of Epson printer control codes to
match the HPCL (Deskjet) one I once did. I'll post it on my website if
ever I finish it! Older Epson sets aren't bad if you ignore graphics
commands, the ESC/P2 command sets tend to take longer to document and
understand!!!
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original
of course.
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Dilwyn Jones
(Tony Tebby: brain the size of a planet) he got his QL at 4,
mastered SuperBASIC before 5, pure machine code by 6. ;-))
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Dilwyn Jones
not remembered
the exact date!)
As it is now 20 years of the QL, let us try to make this a QL year to
remember!
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Dilwyn Jones
cable (9-pin D connector) to have a go at the software.
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Dilwyn Jones
not sure about the north American situation, I shouldn't have
thought it applies here though as surely Frank and Paul only have
rights over the original Sinclair products. Freely distributable.
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Dilwyn Jones
Page is viewable, but I can't upload or modify it for the rest of the
month. They only allow a very small bandwidth and volume of traffic to
it.
I have more material to place on the site, but am stuck now until
February.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: François Van Emelen
: 19.8 mb per day
- Monthly: 600 mb
TopCities have disabled my QL documentation web page for the month, it
seems the monthly bandwidth got exceeded. I hope this is because of
how much material I uploaded, as it hasn't had that much download use
yet!
Ho hum
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Dilwyn Jones
that email. Darren sends stuff like this from the Bank Of Ireland from
time to time, I sometimes wonder if he does anything there other than
run QPC and compile joke emails ;-)
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Dilwyn Jones
the right person...consider
a Freddy (bear?) hug though :-|
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Dilwyn Jones
typposs...;-)
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Dilwyn Jones
disks.
Next step will be to reorganise the main site as there is now some
overlap of material, then update the software downloads site after
that to put much more of the QL PD Library online.
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Dilwyn Jones
on the CD and try to ensure it's
all appropriately indexed then send it to you sometime in the new year
and see where we go from there.
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Dilwyn Jones
Are you using QL or PC format? If I recall correctly, if your
floppy
is PC formatted only, it is Much slower than if you first format it
to
QL.
Jim
QL format.
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Dilwyn Jones
and a larger if less used collection onto the new site? (Not
too keen on this new site because of the adverst etc - it is free
space after all). If space permits, I'd be quite happy to add any
useful documentation people might wish to contribute and make freely
available.
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Dilwyn Jones
?
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Dilwyn Jones
(by me) and Page Designer 3 (by Barry Ansell)
spring to mind, no doubt there's more.
The routines I wrote for Image Processor and Graphics Viewer were in
compiled basic, I can probably find the sources for these dumps and
send them to you if you'd like to try to update them.
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Dilwyn Jones
read CD-ROMs (Yet to find a recorded CD-R which
it will read!), 256 colours max. and so on. Guess it will get used for
very basic applications and that's it!
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Martin Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003
was persuaded to
alter the way Launchpad behaves, it makes it that much more flexible
even though it was a bit more of a chore to make it adapt itself to
whatever it found itself running in.
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Dilwyn Jones
need Bill to help out here.
Georgie...I seem to remember something Darren Branagh sent me about a
Geordie version of Windows, or Windaz as I think it referred to it.
Quite funny. Think the smsq/e module could be called Monkey or
something.. :-)
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Dilwyn Jones
is entitled to distribute all or only
part of the source code and may also distribute, at his
convenience,
the source code via other media.
The site is set up by me (wearing my regoistrar hat).
NO breach of the licence here.
Wolfgang
Well said, couldn't be clearer!
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Dilwyn Jones
you started this by now you never will be.
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Dilwyn Jones
)
(damn! off topic again)
Dilwyn O Gymru
or
Dilwyn Y Cymro
No, I don't think so, Phoebus, leave the 'in Wales' bit to John
Hitchcock.
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Dilwyn Jones
For anyone using (or trying to use) my _PIC to .BMP graphics file
conversion program in QL Today October 2003 issue (Vol 8 Issue 3),
David Bunbury has kindly written to point out that there is an error
in line 270 of the listing on page 43.
In line 270, the GET #3 statement should fetch a 16
unbeknown to me and so the correct screen size
details are not returned!
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Dilwyn Jones
) picture of
myself which might well go there...watch that space at the bottom of
the page!
I accept that people have a right to see who is responsible for that
dreadful gallery!
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Dilwyn Jones
feature of QDOS in a forthcoming QL Today, a useful little
spin-off from subjects discussed almost in passing here!
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Dilwyn Jones
Do Not Set for
colour depth and display resolution. Sadly, as John found out,
although it is now better behaved it is rather naughty in that it
doesn't set resolution but tells you it does (i.e. doesn't show Do Not
Set as the option you chose). This will be improved int he next
version.
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Dilwyn
option is now default.
I'm glad to say that John, Marcel and others who impressed this on me
have managed to make me see sense at last!
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Dilwyn Jones
Its
perhaps the dodgiest passport photo I've EVER seen!!
Must scan it and get it up on the web :-))
Cheers,
Darren.
OH NO
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Dilwyn Jones
to catch up!
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Dilwyn Jones
If anyone has any news or articles for QL Today, we are now (rather
later than hoped) starting to compile the next issue, so please send
in any material as soon as possible to Jochen or myself.
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Dilwyn Jones
be local to Wales North West (or areas served by
Stanlow) as I haven't seen anything about it in the papers or on the
news. If anyone has any info, please let me know.
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Dilwyn Jones
onto this list guys, it was meant to
help me find out if I could make it to the Quanta workshop after all!
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Dilwyn Jones
or not!
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Dilwyn Jones
~~
Jim Hunkins JDH Software Technologies
~~
On Nov 1, 2003, at 4:44 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The trial version of Launchpad 0.91 is on my website now. Hope I
get
the URL right this time!
Details
look forward to being able to compare
products one day when they're both finished!
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Dilwyn Jones
Protection Faults even in Launchpad! Hate to think what they do to
browsers! (Ta for finding those John)
Anyone else found any bugs in Launchpad v0.91 I can fix while I'm off
work tuesday! Very much hope to start demonstrating and selling it at
Byfleet this weekend, bugs permitting!
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Dilwyn Jones
for the
display size and colour depth. The Clock is now positioned correctly
after a Move, icon names can be longer than the original 9 characters
if display size permits it, longer command line strings.
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Dilwyn Jones
saturday night
shift at work so I can travel down saturday afternoon I hope to be
there to demo it in person.
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Dilwyn Jones
more aware of the problems they
face in manning (personning?) such helplines.
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Dilwyn Jones
Nicely done, apart from the 3 broken links:
Pictures of Supper, Roberto Orlandi and Eros Forenzi Roberto
Orlandi!
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: [ql-users
I believe I bought my EasyPtr direct from Albin himself. Since hes
no longer
in business, would someone else (Roy, perhaps?) be prepared to
update me?
Per
I didn't get my Easyptr from Roy, but he did update mine.
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Dilwyn Jones
codes are -
probably the 8 job events allowed by SMSQ/E and the
enter/escape/help/move/resize/sleep/wake events (dons flameproof suit
ready for corrections!). I haven't actually explored this at all, in
my programs only event%=0 is used.
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Dilwyn Jones
. Since you are able IIRC to take ordinary GBP payments, why did you
get a Eurocheque for a British order, or did the customer not know?
Can you let me know what forms of payment you can take, as it will be
easier to direct European orders for Launchpad to you, as customers
can pay you in Euros.
Dilwyn
this
first 'public' version so that I can try to include any changes
arising from feedback into the first commercial release version.
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Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I haven't looked yet, but I suspect the Rich Mellor SuperBASIC
Reference Guide might have insights on this. I can't find any
reference to it in Jan Jnoes's book, though.
Oh, here there is one:
WHEN
used in the non-implemented WHEN construct
;-)
Marcel
E
(How did Dilwyn put it? Ah yes... A brain the size of a planet that
lad!)
Err, I think I was quoting Tony Tebby originally IIRC.
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Dilwyn Jones
?
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Dilwyn Jones
writing
this up for QL Toady and my QL Documentation CD if I can get some
definitive documentation.
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Dilwyn Jones
at the time.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] error lines
On 16 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Well, it wasn't the error tables I wanted
Welsh bands on tour about 10 years ago.
And as for radio, how long have you got???
Dilwyn Jones. Star of stage, screen, radio and flowerbeds. Not.
After reading the above, do you wonder I got fed up of broadcasting
after 20 years with the BBC?
And now, some 5 years after giving it up, it all comes
Now...should that be license or licence??? Can never remember which is
verb, which is noun :o/
Roy would...yes, nice pun.
Err, 1 pound per copy royalty like I used to pay on ptr_gen, wman and
hot_rext ;-))
OK back to my pram to play with my rattle...
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message
is formally credited as Copyright (C) Roy Wood
sometime in the last 3 years :o|
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Dilwyn Jones
Thank you.
$C8 is described in my book as number of watched WHEN variables
It doesn't matter that it doesn't work on QDOS, it is only for my own
debugging use on QPC2.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
than rewrite it all on separate lines.
I'm having problems with one of these programs running OK interpreted,
but not when compiled.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject
or released on VHS/DVD.
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Dilwyn Jones
#channel
PRINT #channel,'AT LINE ';ERLIN;':';error_statement
It's probably stored in the basic variables area somewhere, though I
can't seem to find it.
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Dilwyn Jones
. Anyone any idea what's going on?
Interestingly, the one unaffected program with large-ish files is
QPC2. I wonder if this is because the QXL.WIN is a fixed size Windows
file in a fixed location on the disk, so fairly unaffected by
fragmentation?
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Dilwyn Jones
and Marcel, Tony, Jochen, Wolfgang and all with the OS. That's all
we needed to know.
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Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: SMSQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor
Most Q60
system involve - can anyone explain this in
terms I'd understand?
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Dilwyn Jones
set or whatever is only a start, you'll still need to tinker with
printer drivers etc, but then, that's half the fun of QLing isn't it!
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Dilwyn Jones
However, what printers are people actually using nowadays
with their
QL??
I stick with the 850 - but am I correct
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
You can have more than one par port too, never tried it but I
wonder
if they could be tied to different printers...print to PAR1, PAR2
etc?
Of course. Otherwise, what would be the point of multiple ports?
Marcel
Well, I was thinking more in terms of how many programs
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