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: 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: Re: [ql-users] swedish keyboard

2004-11-09 Thread dilwyn.jones
Yes, I have it on the QL DOcumentation CD, not sure if it's on my documentation website (am at work at the moment). Will have a look... Dilwyn From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/11/09 Tue AM 01:01:27 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] swedish keyboard ???

Re: Re: [ql-users] Texas Instruments Omni Dot Matrix Printer - HELP

2004-11-09 Thread dilwyn.jones
David Tubbs wrote: Dont know what it is like round your way, but over here in Cambs the local recycling dumps hold quite a bit of old IT kit. One of my colleagues here used to work in a furniture recycling centre and he's told me that a lot of what goes into recycling depots in general is

Re: [ql-users] QXL Rams

2004-11-09 Thread dilwyn.jones
Anyone has extra (or a source to buy) the VRAMS for a QXL II? Mine are fried (Daughter played with the card)! Fried? What did she do - pop it in the toaster or something? Or was she just QLing so hard she put it into overdrive? Or did she discover a software overclocking poke or something???

Re: RE: [ql-users] QPC beta testers

2004-11-09 Thread dilwyn.jones
Duncan Neithercut wrote: Willing to be a beta tester Is there any training? Duncan Neithercut No, just the PC Bus to contend with (groan) Plane Sailing really ;-) Bad transport jokes...on your Bike Dilwyn ;-)) Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users

Re: [ql-users] QL users in Sweden

2004-11-09 Thread dilwyn.jones
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 it exists any more. Certainly I have not heard from it for a while. I can't remember the name of the man who used to run it, was it S.

Re: Re: [ql-users] Ain't that a shame?

2004-11-08 Thread dilwyn.jones
Dohh, thanks Phoebus. I'd be dangerous if I had a brain! Dilwyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QLDOS It's rather easy indeed but typing the above link will get you nowhere. The correct link is url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sinclair_qdos

Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers

2004-10-14 Thread dilwyn.jones
Rich-Jochen and I were discussing Canon bubblejets and Epson compatibility a few days ago. I haven't got the email with me here at work, but if you can wait until tonight I can look up the info he gave me on the last Canon he knew to have ESC/P or ESC/P2. Alternatively, try their website,

Re: Re: [ql-users] Canon Printers

2004-10-14 Thread dilwyn.jones
Darren Branagh wrote: I have a Brother injet printer, forget which model, which is esentially a rebranded Canon model sold under licence by Brother (it takes canon cartridges) It is the Brother version of a Canon printer Dilwyn owns/owned - which took single pages, ie. no sheet feeder.

Re: Re: [ql-users] QDOS

2004-10-14 Thread dilwyn.jones
The only other QDOS I've ever heard of was an old PC operating system, a predecessor to CPM I think, called Quick and Dirty Operating System. Don't know if that was the official name or just something someone made up about it in the same way as QDOS in Qludged early QLs were nickname

Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-10-13 Thread dilwyn.jones
One further thought inspired by a private email. How do we do feedback? I can bring a digital camera if that is of any use. Pictures will be no problem as several people will have cameras including me. I am just wondering if anyone would be interested in writing about various items.

Re: Re: [ql-users] Perfection

2004-10-13 Thread dilwyn.jones
George Gwilt wrote:- The version I have, which I amended so that it would print files, is v 6.01. What is yrs? From memory, I think it is v6.10 - but stand to be corrected. I will check this evening. Darren. Darren, on the assumption that the version you have is th emost up to date

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re imPerfection

2004-10-13 Thread dilwyn.jones
I've just decided to start a QXL section on the QL documentation CD. Mind if I add this to it, Per? You may, if you will overlook this transient lapse of tact on my part in my dumping a load of DOS bat code on this list :-| Per Hmmm. I'll send a flock of Welsh sheep in your direction to

Re: Re: [ql-users] Perfection: my take on it

2004-10-12 Thread dilwyn.jones
Rich Mellor wrote: David Batty and Sector Software are still around - see: _http://www.sectorsoftware.demon.co.uk/address.htm_ (http://www.sectorsoftware.demon.co.uk/address.htm) email address: _accordion AT sectorsoftware.demon.co.uk_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Which reminds

Re: [ql-users] WXQT2 and QLTools

2004-10-12 Thread dilwyn.jones
I eventually was able to unbzip2 unrar... both WXQT2, DLLs and QL Tools downloaded from Jonathan Hudson's web site. WXQT2 starts OK, I have moved QLTOOLS from the NT directory to the directory where WXQT2 was installed but I did not manage to read a couple of HD QL disks. Only the . and ..

Re: Re: [ql-users] WXQT2 executables

2004-10-12 Thread dilwyn.jones
This can happen if the path name is typed in for a QXL.WIN as opposed to selecting it in the browser box. It is very fussy about the filename syntax and does not exactly do much to help you get it right. I ALWAYS get it wrong first time, curse, then remember it doesn't work the way intuition

Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-11 Thread dilwyn.jones
Darren Branagh wrote: I know a few people - that can be arranged :-)) Why so? Not a Java fan? Marcel Kilgus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think its programmed in Java, so what are the chances of getting a QPC version? :-)) QPC in Java? Only over my cold, dead body. ;-)

Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-11 Thread dilwyn.jones
Dr Colin F Parsons wrote: Marcel, if you are so Java opposed, how big a job would it be to port QPC to the phone using C/C++ ? (virtual programming novice and all round idiot talking here!!) Cheers, Darren Branagh, HI, Being a bit of a devil's advocate, but just as a matter

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