Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Tony Firshman
Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20: Daniele/ I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator. Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5 (uninstall your current version from Control Panel, then install 2.5 from

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Rich Mellor
Tony Firshman wrote: Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20: Daniele/ I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator. Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5 (uninstall your current version from Control Panel, then install

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread gdgqler
On 21 Feb 2010, at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote: Maybe it is time to try QPC (8-)# Marcel - will it be happy under VMware running XP within Mac Snow Leopard and using a USB floppy? An HD floppy under VMware with Snow Leopard attached to a USB slot is read on my machine by QPC2 as flp2_

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread gdgqler
On 22 Feb 2010, at 09:42, Rich Mellor wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20: Daniele/ I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator. Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5 (uninstall your

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Tony Firshman
Tony Firshman wrote, On 22/02/10 09:10: Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20: Daniele/ I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator. Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5 (uninstall your current version from Control

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Tony Firshman
gdgqler wrote, On 22/02/10 10:26: On 21 Feb 2010, at 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote: Maybe it is time to try QPC (8-)# Marcel - will it be happy under VMware running XP within Mac Snow Leopard and using a USB floppy? An HD floppy under VMware with Snow Leopard attached to a USB slot

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I was rung by Martin Biddle, a Professor of mediaeval archaeology at Oxford. He does work with the Winchester Research Unit. That rang a bell, and I found that I had repaired a QL in Nov 1988. It was great to see the QL after 21 years, and all it needed was a kbd membrane. He wants files

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Geoff Wicks
-- From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:17 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator If you have the time, Tony, try Geoff Wicks's QL2PC for transferring QL DOC files. Free to

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Geoff Wicks wrote: If you have the time, Tony, try Geoff Wicks's QL2PC for transferring QL DOC files. Free to download from http://members.multimania.co.uk/geoffwicks/downloads.htm . It will convert DOC (and other QL formats) to RTF, preserving formatting. RTF will of course load to most

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Rich Mellor
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Geoff Wicks wrote: If you have the time, Tony, try Geoff Wicks's QL2PC for transferring QL DOC files. Free to download from http://members.multimania.co.uk/geoffwicks/downloads.htm . It will convert DOC (and other QL formats) to RTF, preserving formatting. RTF will of

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Thankyou Geoff - that is great - could you add a link to your website please as a reminder. It is a shame not to see you adding your valued input to this list -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services Oops, forgot that link in my first email. It is: http://members.multimania.co.uk/geoffwicks/advice.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Walker
All, Second choice would be Textidy, which will convert to plain text and you can batch many files to convert in one go. Note that TexTIDY will also convert to Wordstar (I know it is now obsolete) format preserving formatting. Some programs can still import Wordstar files. Another TexTIDY

[Ql-Users] Quill PAR

2010-02-22 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I'm sure this has come up before, but I can't for the life of me remember where or when. When using Quill, which has a driver for SER1, I know I can change this to _PAR (leading underscore intentional, doesn't seem to work without it) in the Quill Print dialogue, to send printed output to a

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Am 22.02.2010 11:55, schrieb Tony Firshman: Tony Firshman wrote, On 22/02/10 09:10: For .doc, last time I added a special character at the end of every paragraph. I then made a printer driver as follows and printed to a file: End of line - SPACE Special character - CR/LF/CR/LF £ - chr 156

Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator

2010-02-22 Thread Geoff Wicks
-- From: Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 7:07 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Qemulator OK for some reason, I could not find that link in Geoff's original email - the advice is on