10 years since I last used it and my
poor memory's not what it used to be :-(
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Click on 'View devices by connection'. Highlight the device, and
view
its Properties.
If they make sense it is OK. If not try an 'automatic' install, or
if
that fails a manual install. Then delete any unwanted versions, as
you
could end up with several - that is, if you haven't already
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ones to choose from.
Oh yes of course, but despite what everyone says about it, as long as
I am careful with working around the (sometimes serious) limitations,
I am reasonably happy with Lookout.
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, the joys of PCs!
At this rate, the Aurora will be back on my desk real soon!
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programs are there which use level 2 config!
But if it was used more widely your point would be quite valid.
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) and an 'Epson USB' (which it
doesn't). Yet the advice is: if the printer isn't automatically set to
USB, manually set the port to 'Epson USB' but that device is never
installed, so how can I???
This is gradually driving me up the wall.
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me privately and I will have
a
go!!
Been there, done that...still waiting for a reply from Epson. As I've
said in previous emails about this, other USB devices work fine so the
interface is working OK.
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Printer help
No, it still don't work. At least the PC recognises somethingis
plugged into it - the 'new hardware detected' appears when I plug
and
play is not perfect for all hardware circumstances.
That will be done when I get a chance. Start from scratch, adding one
card at a time.
Am on the verge of giving up and just using it on the parallel port
and to hell with USB (or rather, with Epson software)
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for informal discussion
and 'sounding out' to take place before things go through formal
channels to know the best way to (legally and fairly of course)
present matters in the most efficient way.
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of
Windows and all hardware one card at a time until it works. There has
to be something installed on it (software or hardware) which is
incompatible or interfering in some way.
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everything down and can put it all back
together one step at a time to really diagnose what is going on. Then
I can forget about the PC side of things and concentrate on QLing.
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is probably the most advanced Windoze this old PC will
run...the thought of trying to squeeze XP onto a 333MHz 64MB RAM,
8.2GB PC makes me want to reach for the Valium :-(
*!SULK!*
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but
it is !
Never mind, it's all been good clean and legal fun in the end, with
the possible exception of the breach of the peace when there's just
me and the computer in the house :-(
My PC could be a Weapon of Mass Destruction all by itself...it could
send half the population insane!
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It's not a driver, it's the Epson Status Monitor 3 utility (the whole
package) and it's same version as on my CD.
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From: Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Printer help
/service.html
Ah, good, got those to work...
Austrian QL site
hunting for it - since years...
:-)
Thank you for your help. BTW, where are you based? Austria?
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Ah, thanks, I will update my links page.
Dilwyn
His previous site address of
http://members.aol.com/nasta000/QL/ql.htm
is coming up with Not Found.
It is a wonder that even worked for this long - I've closed down the AOL
account 4 years ago.
A newer, but still woefully in need of
:
Dave Park's Spodmail site http://ql.spodmail.com
Nasta's site (ref. his email)
Jerome Grimbert's QL wensite http://grimbert.cjb.net
QLCF site
Austrian QL site
Mike Kilmeister's MJKsoft site
Nick Cheesman's site.
Al Boehm's site(s)
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You can see some of the results on the photos link on my web page (see
below)
Especially when I picked Jim Hunkins brain
TF (from Larchmont, NY)
Phoebus
Liked that one! I feel a caption competition coming on
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Does anyone know (or is Nasta reading this?) where Nasta's QL website has
moved to?
His previous site address of
http://members.aol.com/nasta000/QL/ql.htm
is coming up with Not Found.
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Photos from the Hove show are on
URL:http://www.firshman.co.uk/photos.htm
Thanks Tony,
I missed this show because I had to work this weekend, so it's nice to see
pics of the show pretty soon afterward.
Nice to see that
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How are you using Quill ? As the original Quill, or through XChange ?
Xchange, though I have tried Quill too. In fact, the problem isn't limited
to that, the whole of QPC2 slows down.
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Another approach would be to make use of Chirs Cave's 'MView' which is
designed to allow views of several documents at once, rather than use
Quill.
Point missed here - it's not just Quill, the whole of QPC2 is affected,
Chris Cave's MView would be just as affected as Quill or Text 87 or
about.
Right, back to that QL virus I was writing ;-))
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Tony Firshman wrote:
I have a slave on my bbs system with 24 256mb partitions, as backups.
He he, not only is he Tony-two-sheds (or however many it was), he's also
Tony-24-partitions ;-)
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for foreground priority?
Have just done a very quick trial with QPC priorities (going to work 10
minutes ago!)
QPC2 was set to LOWEST priority in both fore- and background. Switching
foreground to NORMAL seems to get a better speed. More testing needed!
Thanks, Wolfgang.
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was there of course. Look forward to a
QemuLator review in a magazine near you soon!
Thanks to everyone who offered help with the QPC2 versus Word problem, once
again proves to me how helpful our friends in the QL community can be!
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Anyone know if it's possible to change the justification status (left,
right, centre) for a Easymenu created loose item in a program? I suspect
not, as it's set in Easymenu and there doesn't seem to be an extension which
can set this for a loose item.
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for display purposes with
MITEM#channel,loose_item_number,0,justified_txt$
while editing the text happens with MINPUT #channel,txt$
Which works well enough, just a bit fiddly and leaves me wondering if
there's a more elegant solution.
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number 1, I have had problems with menus with just one item before.
In fact, there is still a small bug in Lanchpad with an error reporting menu
which has only one loose item, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, now
I know why!
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When a simple MDRAW/MINPUT/MCLEAR would suffice.
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- Original Message -
From: Jérôme Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Justify a loose item
I HATE pop-up dialog with only one visible
Good luck with this project, it sounds very interesting and welcome.
A fairly low cost SMSQ/E compatible of this sort would eb a welcome addition
to the family of QL-type machines, especially if it could be a portable with
VGA LCD screen.
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that was with one of the
earliest CST interfaces), though I don't know if I was just lucky or of the
worst effect is that it simply doesn't work until plugged in the right way
round.
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disks
here to ask him to help again, anyhow I guess 90% of them will probably have
nothing useful on them. One last scan through them before they get disposed
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Thanks, the address to send it to is:
Dilwyn Jones
41 Bro Emrys
Tal-y-bont
Bangor
Gwynedd
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From: Christopher Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: [ql-users] 5.25 inch drive wanted
Oops, sorry, forgot to say: just send it by recorded delivery, that way
you've got some proof I received it.
Dilwyn
Thanks, the address to send it to is:
Dilwyn Jones
41 Bro Emrys
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afetr a change of state, then reset after
you press a SHIFT, CTRL or ALT key with nothing else.
Just thought I'd note this, and if anyone (Marcel? Wolfgang L?) can tell me
why, so much the better!
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it said Irish QL meat...didn't know QLs
were in Irish abattoirs...
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to try to have a look why?)
This might make a nice little Quanta group project perhaps - form a group of
interested members to chase up older software?
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of, and all it would take to
free it up in most cases is a nod from the right person.
Should this be on the agenda for QL2004?
I would say so. Get your request to the committee for inclusion on any
agenda for the show, and sound out those you think might be interested in
such a project.
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OCRed they might be small enough to put on my website I suppose. As it is,
the megabytes means they'll only be in the PD library and supplied on CD I
suppose.
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From: Duncan Neithercut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:45
the full evrsion, which is still cheaper than QPC2.
QemuLator provides and excellent halfway house between QLay and QPC2!
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engaging my brain (as usual). Rarely
have I seen Simon that stuck for words as he pondered over whether he'd
misheard what I said, but the sudden total silence in that room said it all.
And Darren's never let me forget it since.
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Another way to create a 'quick and dirty' text files is with OPEN_NEW and
PRINT#
OPEN_NEW#3,filename
PRINT #3,'A line of text'
CLOSE #3
A bit clumsy, but OK for making a very short text file without needing an
editor.
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From: Michael Berger [EMAIL
with the QL, want to
learn something about how it works or just play around with it for a
while.
If I look back at my very first steps into QL world then the most
valuable
ressources from the beginning on were probably QLAY and the website with
QL
documentation by Dilwyn Jones
than on the CD) the situation might be less than
clear cut.
Over to the legal team for advice!
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Thanks, will fix that in a moment.
Dilwyn
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From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spanish QL ROM
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:21:38 +0100, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
, for posterity!
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to recreate MenuConfig's dataspace, my copy has dataspace
of 10240 bytes (10KB)
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and the various toolkit extensions have so many keywords the help
files might fill an unexpanded QL perhaps!
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Price???
Might be interested if still unsold at the end of the month - no spare cash
this month! Have broken my Fuji's battery compartment (dropped it), which is
held together by sellotape at the moment :-(
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To: [EMAIL
Anyone trying to contact me by email this weekend may have difficulty -
Tesco.net have chosen this weekend to get their broadband service up and
running and the service seems to be at best intermittent!!!
Apologies in advance if I take ages to respond to an email.
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No - QPAC2 is the most modern, although if you are really looking for a
desktop, then you might consider just using Dilwyn Jones' launchpad which
uses
the Pointer Environment and is designed to run on standard QLs (or so I
believe)
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1. QPAC1 and QPAC2 were were completely
this with either a QL or
Aurora computer, is to look for a second user QUBIDE interface, which will
allow you to hook up most IDE hard drives to a QL.
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. (and trying to find ways to bring threads back on topic!)
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could find it for
you. Or even come up with a Geordie version of QPAC2 or something... :-)
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version, it must
be good (Welsh is not the easiest language to master).
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assume a filename extension of '_obj'. Obviously, only do this with a COPY
of the program in case it doesn't work properly! NEVER patch a job with a
plain text editor, you'll lose the dataspace and possibly add unwanted
linefeeds and so on.
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From: Malcolm
Reply Coupons still exist, otherwise just send a padded envelope and I'll
send it anyway) and I'll post it on to you on QL floppy disk.
Dilwyn Jones
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus R. Dokos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:38:52 +0300, Costas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
sent it via every email address possible and hope at least
one will get through without error)
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I anyone is prepared to write a bit about the event for us, please
do let Jochen or myself know.
I might do it.
Wolfgang
Greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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QL in
Eindhoven.No help needed from Echelon!!!
Does all this talk of 'hijacking' make Geoff Wicks the official
ql-users and Quanta terrorist???
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at the ottom of
the pile of jobs.
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think the version you have is distributable
(perhaps Dave Gilham might pop his head above the parapet and stop
lurking to let us know...) send me a copy and I'll pop it on the
website.
The email address might help you contact him to ask what the situation
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version that is),
I'll certainly make it available
via PD library and my website.
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' or something like that if
it's checking. It's usually off when I'm on ql-users thank goodness.
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, or vice-versa
And just imagine the field days lawyers would have if they'd had to
plead
whether something was moral or not. Shudder.
Wolfgang
I thought you were a lawyer, Wolfgang?
Or is that what you meant???
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. in Ireland!
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in
touch electronically!
Good luck in your new job, Darren, whenever you start, and let me know
your new email address!
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And an Irish QL show in Galway...now there's something to look forward
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That was probably Bernd Reinhardt then. I'll come with him to
QL2004.
OK, s we know what HE'll be doing on that day...:-)
Wolfgang
He he, I feel a Data Design workshop coming on at QL2004. Either that,
or lock Bernd in a room by himself not to come out until it's sorted!
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getting it settled (Darren, are you listening? What's your
view son this - is the time right to do this?)
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I'll put an appeal in the next issue of Toady to see if anyone knows
of is whereabouts these days.
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From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take
to Turbo-PTR
myself in the near future.
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But then, we in the QL World are always in favour of the KISS
principle,
anyway.
Wolfgang
Keep It SmSqe?
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.
This is obviously quite a task ahead of us. Throwing a bit of
negativity into the equation will hopefully help encourage list
members to fire ideas at Wolfgang to help produce the best possible
solution.
Dilwyn Jones
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
What I would like to know is just from WHAT people would
Hmmm, must have been for the entire vanful you sold at the show then.
Seem to remember something recently about a French sandwich seller who
came here to sell French sandwiches but used bread he'd bought at M
S over here, wonder if they were the ?50 versions as well :-)
Dilwyn Jones
There's also some instructions on the mailing lists page on my
tesco.net website:
http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/emaillst/maillist.html
Dilwyn Jones
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From: wolfgang mühlegger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:04 PM
.
Editing is quite easy - you just click on the Edit This Page tab and a
text box appears with a little toolbar to control what you add to it.
Adding links was quite easy - I added one to my site on both pages and
I notice that several of us have already been doing the same!
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or something???
Dilwyn Jones
Nope! Pulled them out one by one and after she stuck them in her
mouth,
rubbed them on the carpet to dry them :-)
Fried!
Phoebus
H, that's a new one. teaching your kids how to remove chips from
circuit boards and removing excess solder in their mouths!
Guess you'd
This was Dilwyn Jones with misconfigured attribution!
Tesco webmail versus Carter's Removals Windows XP service pack 2 at a
guess!
How many are we in Sweden , is it time for a QL show here ?:)
There used to be a Svenska QL Gruppen (hope that's the right
spelling)
, but I don't think
there isn't that much competition out there for QL
and such subjects as long as we're careful to get the search keywords
right. The more publicity for the event the better. Attendance at QL
shows is lower than it used to be, but well publicised events can
still work well as QL2005 showed.
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minute.
QLCF +33 (0) 498-430320= engaged first time, did not answer
2nd time
Holbern View = gone
Add Nene Valley (Phil Borman) and QUBBE (Ron Dunnett) to the ones
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ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer
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.
What Joachim says makes good sense and I hope something will come of it. Glas
this discussion got into so much detail, at least all possible ideas seem to
have been thrown around!
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was turned into
a £25,000 estimate by careful wording to 'trick' the validation
process. I was quite glad of that...
Maybe somebody will 'break' your work to show there are millions of
QLers responding to the Quanta questionnaire ;-)
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have nothing else with a
through connector for my QL, so the only options are microdrive,
network or serial link to get the eprom image to the QEPIII system.
Shortage of QL-suitable EPROMs is my main problem, not that I use that
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of the QL Advanced User Guide by Adrian
Dickens. Might help with example device driver code, how to trap file
(directory device) operations which make no sense on a non-directory
device and so on. It's well commented assembler.
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volunteered to review Wolfgang's
program for Toady in response to my request!
Mischief-maker-in-chief.
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and start again.
Other than that, well done! I remember how long it took me to get
something similar going for my employer a few months ago!
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From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [ql-users
Try telling Norman Dunbar nothing happens with his software!
;o)
Dilwyn Jones
Its on Dilwyn Jones PD CDROM
If you dont have that let me know I can zip you a copy.
All it does its create a device to which you can send
print output. Does nothing with it.
Tested it last night on QPC2 with QD
mail from me.
They are PDF files, and the text can be extracted in the usual way,
but it becomes an unformatted mess. I created a minimalist plain text
Epson codes list but this is rather less comprehensive than the Epson
PDFs. The text version is more easily emailed etc.
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fine
between two PCs with the usual serial leads, but most people are put
off because they can't get it to work out of the box.
Usual on-going QL problems which never get fully solved.
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Sent
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