Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Nope, his website has moved here: URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/ This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene, because the website is so old that it doesn't even recognize browsers different from Netscape 3.0 of higher ;-)) Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
Dilwyn made the point that Quanta membership was based on a subscription to the magazine. Nothing could be further from the truth. The subscription is for membership to Quanta, period. Hmm, I must be mixing this up with another organisation. The sentence membership is by subscription to the newsletter is quite stuck in my mind. John is right, there is no mention of this in the constitution. Unless it was back in the eearly days, or one of the other groups (BBC micro, Oric etc) I was a member of back in the 1980s. I had a quick look at adverts of Quanta c. 1988 and no mention there either. WWonder where I got that from then? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:32:11 +0100,() Wolfgang Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Nope, his website has moved here: URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/ This does not necessarily mean that he has not left the scene, because the website is so old that it doesn't even recognize browsers different from Netscape 3.0 of higher ;-)) Wolfgang ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Maybe so, but Thierry's website entry addresses have remained the same since 1996 (which is not bad) Phoebus -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Dilwyn made the point that Quanta membership was based on a subscription to the magazine. Nothing could be further from the truth. The subscription is for membership to Quanta, period. Hmm, I must be mixing this up with another organisation. The sentence membership is by subscription to the newsletter is quite stuck in my mind. John is right, there is no mention of this in the constitution. Unless it was back in the eearly days, or one of the other groups (BBC micro, Oric etc) I was a member of back in the 1980s. I had a quick look at adverts of Quanta c. 1988 and no mention there either. WWonder where I got that from then? When I joined Quanta years ago it was to receive magazine. When the magazine degenerated I no longer renewed! Being a hemisphere away Quanta was never more than a magazine to me. I have probably got more from this list than I ever got from Quanta. Lafe McCorkle ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
Tony Firshman wrote: snip http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/048/qlink.htm Membership is by subscription to the magazine I do think I remember that very phrase from the dim and distant past. Would this have been the short lived SUB All the best - Bill ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Rich Mellor wrote: The problem is deleting or updating old links - there are still plenty of sites which point at my old website - I try to inform them and get them updated, but in many cases, it is impossible. Many of the updates can only be done by Thierry - and he does not have a lot of time to spend on websites. I can confirm that Rich is good at spotting and reporting faulty links! I haven't forgotten that one you just reported this morning, Rich, just waiting for cheap dial up time to upload the amended pages! -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Lynx282
Can't get Lynx to work on recent QPC2's. Any suggestions? Here's the boot program I'm using. It's Tim Swenson's cut down Lynx installation, asd I couldn't get the JRH full version to unzip without filling up my QXL.WIN and peppering the root directory with god knows how many files. No sign of Lynx starting with this program. Even a manual EX lynx fails with no error report. Not even a brief flashing console to suggest premature end. Nothing in JOBS list. Tried in QL mode as well as several other hires and colour modes. I'm sure this used to work fine on QPC2 when I tried it many moons ago. 100 REMark ** This section sets up the environment variables required ** 110 : 120 SETENV TERM=qdos 130 SETENV TERMINFO=win1_lynx282_terminfo_qdos 140 SETENV LYNX_CON=512x256a0x0_6_0_4 160 REMark ** This section runs lynx interactively; note the file name format ** 170 EX win1_lynx282_lynx;'/win1/lynx282/index.htm' 180 STOP 190 : This is a list of files in the directory win1_lynx282_ WIN1 QDOS 576929/1048560 sectors lynx282_lynx lynx282_fork lynx282_lynx_cfg lynx282_lynxrc lynx282_terminfo_qdos lynx282_lynx_BOOT lynx282_index.htm lynx282_test.htm lynx282_test2.htm lynx282_test3.htm lynx282_cp lynx282_mv anything missing that anyone knows of? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: (BTW-what does the R stand for?) Phoebe, That is a female version of my name ;-) Last time I checked I was male (of course the hair... well until recently could throw some off track but me and Roy know better don't we Roy?) :-) Same problem, for some reason some seem to prefer the female version of my name too. Transpose i and y, swap i to e, you name it, even when my name is correct further up in the emails. So I deliberately mis-spell their names in replies and I get an angry email back! I then tell them that if they are an English speaker, try to mis-spell it, if it looks wrong it's probably right! Welsh spellings always seem to 'look' wrong to English because of reversed stresses and so on (emphasis usually on opposite syllable of 2 syllable words, hence why we often mispronounce English words and sound like English gone wrong when there's no strong Welsh accent!) My name has been btw abused so much that I seriously think of reverting back to the Greek-English transliterated spelling. That way I won't be Pheobus, Phoebe, Fevus or whatnot ;-) Use the Welsh version, Ffibys for variety. Or even just ask people to call you Dokos as you seem to be the only one on this list, just as I think I'm the only Jones (for once). Using English, is the correct pronunciation Fee-bus ? If your case is like mine, once people know the correct pronunciation they seem to have less difficulty with sppelignz. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Lynx282
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:09:26 -,() Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Can't get Lynx to work on recent QPC2's. Any suggestions? Here's the boot program I'm using. It's Tim Swenson's cut down Lynx installation, asd I couldn't get the JRH full version to unzip without filling up my QXL.WIN and peppering the root directory with god knows how many files. The cut down installation is not working right :-) You HAVE to use the latest Lynx. Regardless if you *really* don't want to wait for my upcoming article I will make a small distribution zip and upload it somewhere No sign of Lynx starting with this program. Even a manual EX lynx fails with no error report. Not even a brief flashing console to suggest premature end. Nothing in JOBS list. Tried in QL mode as well as several other hires and colour modes. I'm sure this used to work fine on QPC2 when I tried it many moons ago. You need to EX Lynx;'switches' to make it work anything missing that anyone knows of? I guess you need the distro :-) I will build a zip and upload it shortly Phoebus P.S. It also works on QemuLator :-) -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:10:30 -,() Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: (BTW-what does the R stand for?) As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's first name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more precise, Phoebus Dokos, son of Romylus :-) Phoebe, That is a female version of my name ;-) Last time I checked I was male (of course the hair... well until recently could throw some off track but me and Roy know better don't we Roy?) :-) Same problem, for some reason some seem to prefer the female version of my name too. Transpose i and y, swap i to e, you name it, even when my name is correct further up in the emails. So I deliberately mis-spell their names in replies and I get an angry email back! That's a good idea... I will start using that too (see below) I then tell them that if they are an English speaker, try to mis-spell it, if it looks wrong it's probably right! Welsh spellings always seem to 'look' wrong to English because of reversed stresses and so on (emphasis usually on opposite syllable of 2 syllable words, hence why we often mispronounce English words and sound like English gone wrong when there's no strong Welsh accent!) snip Use the Welsh version, Ffibys for variety. Or even just ask people to call you Dokos as you seem to be the only one on this list, just as I think I'm the only Jones (for once). Now that's an idea :-) I will then start to use that ;-) Using English, is the correct pronunciation Fee-bus ? Yes exactly :-) If your case is like mine, once people know the correct pronunciation they seem to have less difficulty with sppelignz. -or they could just open a Dictionary ;-) - Ffibys :-) -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:11:10 -,() Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Imagine you been called Divad (or Vlade Divac for that matter ;-) -or other obvious anagrams ;-) Hey, Phoebus, David is rather close to Dafad or Davad in Welsh, which means sheep... Or one could play a little anagram with last names (heehee) ;-) We'd better take care of the spelling of his name in future, Ffibys! Nah! I think I beat that subject to a pulp! This is so often the case. Either the ISP won't allow access to 'kill' the site or the owner has not kept a record of the password after account expiry. Which isn't the case... I have the password but cannot get on. I will try to contact them today to see if they can kill it somehow. Sometimes the ISP will delete it if you thank them for giving you free publicity after you stop paying for the account, a bit of irony or sarcasm often works - try sorting out a cocked-up order from firms like EBuyer any other way! Now I know the '50megs' is a 'dead' account even though it's still there, I've removed it from my QLNet page. Will upload later tonight at cheap call rates, assuming Tesco.net is not having one of its all too often off days. I had sent you an email a long time ago when that happened (remember we moved everything to my dokos-gr.net site until the then host killed that in a fit of rage (I'd imagine ;-) Ffibys ;-) (Hey I like that) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
Dilwyn made the point that Quanta membership was based on a subscription to the magazine. Nothing could be further from the truth. The subscription is for membership to Quanta, period. Hmm, I must be mixing this up with another organisation. The sentence membership is by subscription to the newsletter is quite stuck in my mind. John is right, there is no mention of this in the constitution. Unless it was back in the eearly days, or one of the other groups (BBC micro, Oric etc) I was a member of back in the 1980s. I had a quick look at adverts of Quanta c. 1988 and no mention there either. WWonder where I got that from then? When I joined Quanta years ago it was to receive magazine. When the magazine degenerated I no longer renewed! Being a hemisphere away Quanta was never more than a magazine to me. I have probably got more from this list than I ever got from Quanta. Lafe McCorkle Maybe it was like that some time ago and I'm thinking of a quote rather than advert or past constitution entry. Either way, I didn't mean to start Quanta-bashing again! -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
Tony Firshman wrote: snip http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/048/qlink.htm Membership is by subscription to the magazine I do think I remember that very phrase from the dim and distant past. Would this have been the short lived SUB All the best - Bill Ah yes, the Super User Bureau. Newsletter produced with a mixture of DP's DTP and my Page Designer 2 programs IIRC. Run by Richard something...anyone remember his full name? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 at 18:36:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) There's a shop in Bangor called Quantum Leap Tattooing (how do you spell that last word???). Wonder if I asked them to tattoo a QL on me if they'd know what I meant??? Reminds me of the advert seen in a tattoo shop in Oldham: Tattoos while you wait There's a village near Oswestry called Quinta (not sure of the spelling, I remember it's one letter different to Quanta) Not quite - it is a Christian centre near Oswestry: http://www.touchshrewsbury.com/comdir/cditem.cfm/2658 There are endless quanta sites, with our Quanta nowhere to be seen: Aurora Quanta (photos) Amazingly nothing to do with the QL! http://www.auroraquanta.com/ Web development tool: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Science fiction mag: http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta/ Video capture cards: http://www.quantacorp.com/ Share dealing: http://www.quantaservices.com/ Computer manufacturer: http://www.quantatw.com/ 3D modelling: http://www.accelrys.com/quanta/ networking toolkit: http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/quanta/ Job seeking: http://us.quanta.com/quanta/0102.asp IT training: http://www.quanta.co.uk/ ahha on the third page, -the- questionnaire: Quanta 2004 Membership Questionnaire (online form). Quanta 2004 Membership Questionnaire (txt). Quanta 2004 Membership Questionnaire (pdf). We now have about 90 replies. It looks like the Quanta site needs to do more work on getting a better text area at the top of the site. It is vital that search engines pick up text that summarises the site in as few words as possible. This search engine snippet is totally useless - it doesn't even mention Sinclair or QL. Mine comes up much more relevantly: TF Services. Sinclair QL support. Tony Firshman's Home Page. December 5, 2004. This page holds details of/links to current TF Services ... http://www.quanta.co.uk/ -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: (BTW-what does the R stand for?) As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's first name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more precise, Phoebus Dokos, son of Romylus :-) Hmmm. So my equivalent would be Dilwyn ap Ifor Jones (or ab Ifor as dad's name starts with a vowel) BTW, Ffibys, I didn't tell you that Bys means finger and Ffi isn't really a Welsh word but is sometimes used in parts of Wales for the English word Fee. So wave your bys and get a ffi I've changed some of your website links, including removing the 50megs link. I didn't remove it originally as it still seemed to exist after a while, so I assumed you must have changed your mind. Can you check that I've got them right, as you only seem to have place holder pages there at the moment. And what's the situation with the software download database pages now - should I add a link to that? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 26/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?
Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:44:07 -,() Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] /wrote: Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: (BTW-what does the R stand for?) As per Greek convention our middle initial stands for our father's first name. In this case it is Phoebus Romylus Dokos (or to be more precise, Phoebus Dokos, son of Romylus :-) Hmmm. So my equivalent would be Dilwyn ap Ifor Jones (or ab Ifor as dad's name starts with a vowel) BTW, Ffibys, I didn't tell you that Bys means finger and Ffi isn't really a Welsh word but is sometimes used in parts of Wales for the English word Fee. So wave your bys and get a ffi -or as any Greek with his sense of humour intact would translate it, it could mean... give me money or I'll give you the finger ;-) hee-hee I've changed some of your website links, including removing the 50megs link. I didn't remove it originally as it still seemed to exist after a while, so I assumed you must have changed your mind. Can you check that I've got them right, as you only seem to have place holder pages there at the moment. And what's the situation with the software download database pages now - should I add a link to that? The link should go on. I have little things to clean up and proper graphics to add... finally the code works properly (it worked enough for me to get a graduating A -although I scraped the Summa Cum Laude due to a really obnoxious prof and I ended up with a Magna Cum Laude...pah!- In any case I am putting links that work in the database and plan to add a feature that would email the author if their email exists in the database (although such information won't be available to the user- if their link to their software is dead). Unfortunately, the record size is rather long and the only semi-properly organised list available is Thierry's, and that still has to be filtered and modified (ie French descriptions removed) etc. etc. I will be sending emails in a few days to software authors for permission to include themselves in the database (so you can search by Author, email the Author (via sendmail) etc.). Unfortunately, due to my provider not using InnoDB as the mySQL engine of choice, several things are missing that could add to the experience such as stored procedures, triggers and referential integrity between tables, however most of this is done using php code (which adds to the overhead of course but it's not important). My major obstacle was to be downwards compatible enough to be able to access the database using lynx so that users of uQLx, QemuLator, qlwIP, QPC2 v.3.30+ and even soQL-PPP can use it(although the latter should enter directly the IP address as I think -cause I haven't tried it yet- browsing works via lynx if IP addresses are used) Ffibys :-) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] SMSQE Gold Card 3.07 Lack of Icons
I seem to remember somebody complaining on the group that the standard icons are missing on the Gold Card version of SMSQE 3.07 Nobody was able to help him if my memory is correct. Well George has solved the problem which is all to do with the dev7 change. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Lynx282
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:10:08 -0500, Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cut down installation is not working right :-) I did work on my JSU QL years ago when I created the cut down version. I don't even want to think about how many years ago that was. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
