Re: [ql-users] Soundfile

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi François, Thank you, Wolfgang You're most welcome. Can you include the new keywords in you database? I had hoped to see you at QL 2004 - were you there at all? Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] tk2_ext file

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 16 Nov 2004 at 21:06, wolfgang mühlegger wrote: is tk2 free? I don't think so. Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 16 Nov 2004 at 23:10, John Gilpin wrote: Quanta sponsored Workshops are covered by Public Liability Insurance until 16th April 2005 when the policy is due for renewal. And it is still getting more expensive every time we renew!! Even though, I presume, you never had to call on the

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 16 Nov 2004 at 20:11, gwicks wrote: The trouble is that you can't trust any damn lawyer! (Quickly dives under desk.) No, of course not, only trust the good ones... grin Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

RE: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 16 Nov 2004 at 22:24, Duncan Neithercut wrote: (...) However I now have problem 2 : once the filter program is called by the GUI and the message screen is displaying that it is starting to process the file the filter quits with a QLIB error that indicates it is missing a SBAS extension

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Sjef van de Molengraaf
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:24:42 +0100, you wrote: On 16 Nov 2004 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think isnurance might be a major reason why(...) Just a quick question: was QL 2004 insured? Wolfgang Yes, the school took full responsibility. We were, in the school's opinion, trustfull people

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim OK, I see - however, surely that is where the new device driver could come in - it could take data sent to the PAR device (or whatever it is to be called), and through it into the pipe - if it presents a START DATA tag and END DATA tag, the Proforma Filter

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:27:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, Joachim presented it the other way round: The job sends the data to a pipe which is then sent to the printer/device driver. As Joachim also said, it's difficult to avoid contention (two jobs

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:50:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have thought that with that hat on the question would not be necessary. Not necessarily easy - you can get a list of the email addresses subscribed to the user list, but Quanta does not necessarily

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
Resending this email cos it does not appear to have appeared on the list for some reason. In a message dated 16/11/2004 20:19:27 GMT Standard Time, dent freesurf.ch writes: How about testing if a £10 subscription would bring in new members by launching a special offer for

Re: Re: [ql-users] tk2_ext file

2004-11-17 Thread dilwyn.jones
Where can I get a tk2_ext file for uqlx ? /Michael Email me if you have one Not too sure what the status is now on this Tony?? There is a copy provided with some of the emulators and on the emulators CD (oops)... If it is still copyright, you can always buy a second hand

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread dilwyn.jones
Geoff Wicks wrote : I don't think a reduction to £10 would bring in any new members, but £4 per member invested in QL development might encourage one or two more people to join. I suspect it might have been better for a 'first year £4 off your membership' offer, but it isn't so long ago

Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-11-17 Thread dilwyn.jones
Actually, John, I thought all the committee were going to be at Byfleet. I thought we agreed at Hove that we would have a committee meeting there. After all there is a lot of business piling up and some things from the last meeting and from our February meeting still have to be resolved,

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 07:15:23, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:50:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have thought that with that hat on the question would not be necessary. Not necessarily easy - you can get a list of the email addresses

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread dilwyn.jones
Quanta sponsored Workshops are covered by Public Liability Insurance until 16th April 2005 when the policy is due for renewal. And it is still getting more expensive every time we renew!! Even though, I presume, you never had to call on the insurance. Ha, who said Lawyers were

Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread dilwyn.jones
3. The program Wolfgang provided. This will then regularly check the accounting thing to know if something needs to be printed. If there is, then it goes ahead and prints stuff. If a new print job arrives for a printer which is already being printed on, the job is delayed (this would

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:47:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would actually assume that you need three components to get this to work. 1. A thing which allows you to create a new pipe and do some bookkeeping. 2. A device driver which when opened, uses the

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: hOn 16 Nov 2004 at 20:48, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: However, you could just throw the in a pipe and have a resident job checking for that pipe once in a while and print the stuff. The main problem with this solution is figuring out a mechanism to make sure that two

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:27:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, Joachim presented it the other way round: The job sends the data to a pipe which is then sent to the printer/device driver. Rich, I think you misunderstood me. Also the

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Kemmett
Quite agree Rich.. I have cancelled my standing order to Quanta as it has nothing to offer me for my subscription. The mag, now it is only produced bi-monthly, (and then late) only gives half the information that has already been published in QLToday! I have no transport, so getting to a

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Kemmett
Yes Duncan .. Its all gone VERY QUIET about that one again ... Flurry of hot air a few weeks back, but I've given up all hope of ever seeing it resurrected Brian Kemmett - Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16,

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:08, Tony Firshman wrote: Sorry, Rich. I know you are tied into an unconfigurable AOL mailer, but I reckon you could handle the problem of quoting text a mite better. Oh yes, please! Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com

Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming it's a filter program which for example copies the file printed to ram1_ to a chosen printer... 1. Reserved filename, say ram1_prtfile_dat or similar. (Would allow printer drivers to be configured to this filename if this is the

RE: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Nov 2004 at 12:28, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Sorry, later in the day I'll recompile it with the toolkit and put up the new version on my website. Done Wolfgang www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com ___ QL-Users

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Nov 2004 at 16:35, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: (..) On another subject, what are the chances to get you to write a Proforma Ghost/Postscript printer driver? None, sorry. A couple of reasons. I was afraid of that :-(( 1. no time. Even though I am at home because of illness

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 17 Nov 2004 at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want the ability for Proforma to print in Postscript or to take Postscript input and convert it to any other driver?? Guess the former is easier to do... I'd definitely like ProForma to be able to print in Postscript. This would

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 16:05:21 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Nov 2004 at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want the ability for Proforma to print in Postscript or to take Postscript input and convert it to any other driver?? Guess the former is

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 16:10:24 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 17/11/2004 15:59:25 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:08, Tony Firshman wrote: Sorry, Rich. I know you are tied into an unconfigurable AOL

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 16:17:24 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... and ditto for the rest of the email. It was, I am afraid, pretty impossible to work out what was what. Tony RM said: I agree - when I type the reply in AOL browser I see quoted text as either

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 16:17:52 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 17/11/2004 11:27:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, Joachim presented it the other way round: The job sends the data to a

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 17/11/2004 16:17:35 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: hOn 16 Nov 2004 at 20:48, Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: However, you could just throw the in a pipe and have a resident job checking for that pipe once in a while and print

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 at 11:09:35, wrote: Rich Mellor---^ (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In a message dated 17/11/2004 15:59:25 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ^ I hope the user group archive removes these email addresses. On 17 Nov 2004 at 14:08, Tony Firshman

Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-11-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: dilwyn.jones Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 Byfleet is just over a week away. Everyone do your best to publicise that workshop and encourage people to visit. My newsletter has a nasty habit of turning up on the monday or tuesday FOLLOWING a workshop, so

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Duncan Neithercut
Yes, I dont quite understand that if you already own a legal copy of Perfection why cannot be allowed to get hold of the upgrade. Happy to provide proof of purchase. DP are not trading so loss of profit should not be an issue, loss of support for previous commercial programmes is an issue to me

RE: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Duncan Neithercut
Dont walk away : Quanta is sitting on a stack of cash that should be used for the benefit of Quanta members and QL users in general, I guess that most who are left on the scene must have been members at one time. Geoff Wicks is right to try to identify a way of spending some of that cash to help

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Problem is that not all programs can be altered to print to anything other than par or ser1 Well, then they couldn't be altered to use the other device driver either? The new device would need a PFF_USE command (Proforma Filter ??) similar to PAR_USE, so that it could be set to replace

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Kemmett
The problem is Quanta IS JUST sitting on a stack of cash - I have contributed to their coffers since 1986! To Geoff Wicks, thanks for the concern, but you tell me, what can Quanta do for me? - I live in a QL World black hole! The monthly mag was like a lifeline but now I rely on QLToday because

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Kemmett
Watch this space - Your disbelief and mine will ammount to ... well, no action. and I believe that is why the QL World is dying, or as I said before on this issue, elitist. best wishes.. BK - Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread P Witte
Rich, I find your quoting - or rather lack of it - difficult to follow. Please could you do something about it? Per - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 In a message dated

Re: Re: [ql-users] tk2_ext file

2004-11-17 Thread P Witte
Dilwyn Jones writes: The permission I got to use the older, cut down TK2 witht he emulators CD was just that, permission to use it with the emulators on that CD! It was NOT permission to freely distribute TK2. The main problem with the cut-down version of tk2 is, in my view, that it doesnt

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RM Wrote: Hmm I see Joachim's point (is it me, or does everyone else not receive these posts from the QL-Users server in the right order???) Rich, it is not you, most mailers by default display mails in the order of time the mail was sent. Someones clock is not very

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 14:08 17/11/2004 +, you wrote: The quoted text above looks actually -slightly- better than it appeared when I was reading it. What I saw was --- I would have thought that with that hat on the question would not be necessary. NO PARA BREAK MAKES FOR CONFUSION. Not necessarily

Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-17 Thread David Tubbs
At 23:57 17/11/2004 +0100, you wrote: RM Wrote: Hmm I see Joachim's point (is it me, or does everyone else not receive these posts from the QL-Users server in the right order???) Rich, it is not you, most mailers by default display mails in the order of time the mail was sent. Someones clock is