Re: [ql-users] Test

2005-08-31 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please ignorejust changing my email address - checking done it right. Hmmm. If I read the original email and follow the instructions to ignore it then I haven't actually ignored it have I ? On the other hand, if I simply ignore it without reading it, then I

Re: [ql-users] QL Stick

2005-08-10 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops, Device is un-formatted But I was using it last night, QXL_WIN and all. Don't format it !!! I have QPC on a stick too and it works on my laptop under XP Home and Linux. It works at work on Windows 2000 Pro SP4. (and SP3 and ) It refuses to be recognised

RE: [ql-users] QL Stick

2005-08-10 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd argue that comment. I think its more to do with the quality and manufacture of your stick. The disgo brand (I work from 'em, so am = probably biased!) are guaranteed to work on any USB enabled environment Mine's a Crucial Gizmo 256 Mb. Guarenteed for live and no

Re: [ql-users] Free to a good home - the saga continues

2005-07-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
to the tower. This is so that tourists can get the time and the inclination :o) groan See you all when I get back. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Free to a good home - the saga continues

2005-07-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
, but forgot to do the date. Silly me. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[ql-users] Free to a good home - the saga continues

2005-07-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
for a fortnight, then I promise to sort things out when I get back. Thanks. Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 267.8.8 - Release Date: 30/06/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

[ql-users] Free to a good home

2005-06-07 Thread Norman
, WWF (not the wrestling, the World Wide Fund for Nature). Alternatively, buy a Big Issue from someone in the street ! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete

2005-05-26 Thread Norman
ago.) Bear in mind that my memory isn't all that great (I need a RAM upgrade to my head, probably a CPU upgrade as well) but as I said above, I'm almost 100% certain. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: Re: [ql-users] Internet on the QL

2005-04-29 Thread Norman
- who's clever now then ? Still, and in an attempt to at least mention our esteemed platform of choice, at least we don't have to worry about virusses on the QL do we ? Apart from the one I wrote many years ago :o) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing

[ql-users] Ffibys version 2.0

2005-04-28 Thread Norman
you've just had a child and I don't have any, and I never have enough time for anything ? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Perfection

2005-04-25 Thread Norman
from him again. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Perfection

2005-04-22 Thread Norman
too. I used to do some work for him - which never came to fruition as he vanished before it was complete - conjverting old 128Kb programs to run on expanded systems plus removing the copy protection routines etc. We had many a long chat in those days :o) Cheers, Norman

Re: Re: [ql-users] QStarter, QFiles

2005-04-13 Thread Norman
, this is the utility that was supplied with WinBack - Directory_bas - I extracted from it because it had less clutter compared to the similar routine within WinBack itself. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] QStarter, QFiles

2005-04-12 Thread Norman
traversal routine which opens the directory and reads entries from it. I suspect the code in there may be useful. I cams across a similar problem when I was writing WinBack all those years ago. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [ql-users] QStarter, QFiles

2005-04-12 Thread Norman
Check out lines 1250 and 1255 in the following extract from Directory_bas which is the utility to build a SuperBasic file which rebuilds you Win_ directory structure. Cheers, Norman. 1140 DEFine PROCedure check_dir (d$) 1145 LOCal name_len%, curr_d$(40), curr_f$(41), entry$(64), loop 1150

Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Norman
was still selling my stuff. HTH Cheers, Norman. I'll need to spend a bit more time on it when I'm less tired. Actually, this is a good advert for the little USB Memory Pens which were discussed here a few days ago. I can just dump the sources and a copy of QPC2 and QLiberator in my USB memory

Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Norman
know ! Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-06 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:21:48 +0100 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: Hi Norman, We may never know ! No problem, there are more things we may never know ;) Indeed - such as : Why did the chicken cross the road ? What came first, the chicken or the egg

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-05 Thread Norman
to something like 4-5000 words or a couple of pages, [most] people wouldn't mind. But, then again . Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
remotely like this for the QL, who knows - the very thought of it might spur someone with the talent to do the job, on to actually doing it. Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 05/04/2005

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-04 Thread Norman
was referring to the esteemed QL Toady periodical. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
hitchies wrote: Re: - Called shut up, ewe! Well, it did have Anthony Hopkins in it Darren. Sorry Darren that was the Glasgow version, and it was called 'shut up ewes' which is Glaswegian for 'please, be quiet.' :o) Good try though - welcome back. Cheers, Norman. -- Internal Virus Database

Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
could have an irregular 'off topic' column in which articles of interest could be published - even if not related to the QL. Or would that be unacceptable ? Cheers, Norman. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release

[ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour

2005-04-01 Thread Norman
and Dai * The Sheepsh*g Redemption * Breakfast at Taffanys * Look Back in Bangor * Evans Can Wait * A Fishguard Called Rhondda * Where Eagles Aberdare * Dial M For Merthyr :o) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Stick

2005-03-29 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent little tip! Mind if I publish this in QLToday? You already have - I wrote up my experiences with QPC and a USB drive some time back. :o) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk

Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Stick

2005-03-28 Thread Norman
confirm the above, but I think Windows 95 will work as well, if you install the correct driver to make it able to work the USB port/stick drive. NT3.5 and 4.0 will not work as it doesn't support USB devices 'naturally' - although there might be a driver somewhere for it. Cheers, Norman

Re: [ql-users] SQL on QDOS

2005-03-21 Thread Norman
is I'm very much self taught as a programmer, and without any resources to call on, I tend to get very dis-hearted when it all goes horribly wrong and I've got no-one to consult who knows better. (This was before the internet !) Cheers, Norman. PS. I never did get the 'code generator' written

[ql-users] GCC on QDOS

2005-03-11 Thread Norman
but what the hell. This project will take me some time and may not even appear (like many in the past) but it could prove to be very useful if it does. Anyone fancy a copy of Oracle running on their QL ? Cheers, Norman. PS. Only joking about Oracle

Re: [ql-users] GCC on QDOS

2005-03-11 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find qdos-gcc at: URL:http://thgodef.nerim.net/qdos/english/frames.html Thanks. How about mysql ;-) Close, SQLLite. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Suggestions on a postcard ....

2005-03-09 Thread Norman
at present plus, my 'music' knowlege is far far less than my graphics knowlege - so it is unlikelt that I'll ever be able to do a sampler. (Assuming the hardware limitations allowed it!) Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [ql-users] ATTN: Roy Wood re my Subscription

2005-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy, did you get my request to renew QL Toady 'in the usual fashion' - I sent it to sales*qbranch. Cheers, Norman. I did and a receipt is on it's way Thanks - receipt has been received. :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found

[ql-users] ATTN: Roy Wood re my Subscription

2005-03-04 Thread Norman
Roy, did you get my request to renew QL Toady 'in the usual fashion' - I sent it to sales*qbranch. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] CTRL ALT left/right

2005-03-04 Thread Norman
, the same key can be used for multiple programs - so CTRL+S in Notepad does a 'save current document' while it may do a completely different action in another application - it all depends on which one is the active one. Cheers, Norman. (At work - I now work for the UK government

Re: [ql-users] foo

2005-02-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
FUBAR = F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition. FOOBAR is a 'soundalike' used by programmers as an in-joke. Foo() and Bar() are the programmers example functions which seem to have stuck around for a long time now. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
systems ! He's no longer the technical director - he didn't have any technical knowlege at all. I'm no longer the Oracle DBA there either - I work for myself now. :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8

Re: [ql-users] Fred Toussi

2005-02-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
The bit that puzzles me is the fact that it is written in Java, but described as 'fast' and named 'Hypersonic'. Must be a different Java to the one I've been used to. All Java applications are s...l...o...w ! :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti

[ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
I was reading the archives and noticed that Rich Mellor was after a copy of my BlackHole device driver - the one which 'does nothing' as someone succinctly put it - and I was wondering if he (Rich) had managed to get hold of a copy of the source. Cheers, Norm. -- No virus found in this

Re: [ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
have) On that note, could I use it in freeQDOS? (Please?) Ffibys... Of course you can. Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 10/02/2005 ___ QL

Re: [ql-users] ProForma Filter

2005-02-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Actually it is my belief that it should be part of the OS (as a nul device like most OSes have) Erm, what's wrong with SMSQ/E's NUL device? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

[ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Greetings Earthlings. I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list. I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again. Here's hoping Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Greetings Earthlings. I'm testing to see if I can once again receive mailings from this list. I've been off list for over a year and I'm trying again. Here's hoping Cheers, Norman. Yippee It finally works ! (I suppose it's considered 'strange' to reply to one's

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Phoebus Dokos wrote: Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-) Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet. This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o) Cheers, Norman. -- No virus found

Re: [ql-users] Testing testing 123 - am I working again ?

2005-02-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norman Dunbar wrote: Phoebus Dokos wrote: Ffibys (Long story... ask Dilwyn) :-) Hmmm. Dilwyn has replied to this email - I can see it in the web archives (that was quick) but I don't have it in my email cleint yet. This means that this reply, is really going to confuse things. :o) Cheers, Norman