Hi Peter, I believe I may have had the same problem myself. Let me explain. I use QPC2 regularly, and have an elaborate boot file, which gets occasionally modified. Some time ago, I made some changes, and saved the boot file. The very next time I started QPC2, it crashed, and was totally unusable. What I then needed to do to recover the situation was to re edit my boot file to reverse the changes. But how could I do this, when every time I started QPC2, it crashed. That was the problem.
If this is the problem you are having, there is a way around this. On QPC2s front panel, select the devices button, which is at the bottom left corner. Under Boot options, there is the choice of selecting either from floppy disk, if one is loaded, or choosing a win directory, in which to look for a boot file. There is a choice of eight of them. And even if all that fails, you could always blank out the win1_ entry under Win/Dos connections. Once QPC2 starts, you then have access to everything, and can sort out all your files from everywhere. I hope that helps. Kind regards, Michael >----- Original Message ----- >From: peterfox <peter...@cix.co.uk> >To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com >Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016, 17:15 >Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] More Help Please > >Tobias, > >Thank you for coming back to me. I did not know that attachments did >not go through so apologies. > >What I have managed to do is find a much better boot file which solve >all my problems provided that I can get it into QPC2 which is not >working at the moment and without a floppy drive available.> > >Have you any ideas? > >TIA & Regards, > >Peter > > > > >On 16.06.2016 12:47, tobias.froesc...@t-online.de wrote: >> Peter, >> >> I assume you are talking about an attachment you were adding to your >> post - Note the list does _not_ forward attachments, so we cannot see >> it. >> >> I am a bit at loss why you would want to explicitely want to load >> SMSQE.BIN (or SMSQR, which could well be a re-configured one) in your >> boot. QPC2 loads SMSQ/E without being asked for it, after all it's >> the >> only OS it has and that must be already running before BOOT time . >> You >> do not need that and it seems to be a sign of very responsible >> programming by the original authors that this used to work at all. >> >> What IPCEXTUK is supposed to do escapes me as well - I'm afraid we'd >> need the BOOT embedded as text into an e-mail to further look into >> this. >> >> Regards, >> Tobias >> >> >> >> -----Original-Nachricht----- >> Betreff: [Ql-Users] More Help Please >> Datum: 2016-06-16T10:51:07+0200 >> Von: "Peter Fox" <peter...@cix.co.uk> >> An: "ql-us...@q-v-d.com" <ql-us...@q-v-d.com> >> >> Hi there, >> >> In an effort to change a few things in my boot file in QPC2, I have >> run into a very large >> number of problems. >> >> Firstly I have SMSQR dated 2003 and 65K bytes. My boot file working >> perfectly well until >> I disturbed it. SMSQE was in the boot file but now it does not find >> either SMSQE or >> SMSQR. I have REMarked it out at the moment. Will this give me any >> problems? >> >> In addition, I have been having problems with IPCEXTUK which is in >> line 180. The calls >> are in line 200 and are shewn in the screen shot to have the wrong >> parameters. >> >> These parameters did work but what please should I do next? >> >> TIA & Regards, >> >> Peter >> >> p.s. I have a nasty feeling that these problems may well continue but >> I will have to try >> and deal with them one at a time. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
