Hi, I still disassemble programmes now...
Regards, Derek -----Original Message----- From: "Caroline Mathieson" <caroline.mathie...@hotmail.com> Sent: 04/12/2014 10:46 To: "ql-us...@q-v-d.com" <ql-us...@q-v-d.com> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Assembly eMagazine - Latest News This is excellent work Norman. It brings back many memories of QL dissassembly and programming from back in the late 80s for me. Caroline > On 3 Dec 2014, at 20:43, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: > > Christmas is coming, > Norm is getting fat, > Time to put something, > In everyone's hat! > > Ok, I'll stop doing the "poetry"! > > Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up if > you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the previous > articles that were published in QL Today over the many years, and merge them > together (with George's corrections of course!) into a small PDF book of > about 300 odd pages. > > The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as "dot" files which then get > converted to png his is images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can get > your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws it for > you. > > All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper images > now. > > The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which > takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a pile of > "latex" files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as opposed to an > English lock!) > > These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and (most > of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you will find > at: > > http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf. > > I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received since > March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!) that some > people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps! > > Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate. > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > -- > Norman Dunbar > Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd > > Registered address: > 27a Lidget Hill > Pudsey > West Yorkshire > United Kingdom > LS28 7LG > > Company Number: 05132767 > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
