It's almost like we need some kind of public "infobase" or "programmer's wiki" to make these nuggets easily searchable and reference-able.
Where might we find something like that? PS: I offer free web hosting to anyone willing to run it. On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:47 AM, pjwitte via Ql-Users < ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> wrote: > On 14/04/2018 20:01, Marcel Kilgus via Ql-Users wrote: > >> pjwitte via Ql-Users wrote: >> >>> If those who "wrote the book" on these matters arent able/willing to >>> pipe up, then we'll have to waste some time R-ingTFBs and doing the >>> tests ourselves. I'll be back. >>> >> "The books" were written so long ago, even the people who wrote them >> must usually spend some serious time to answer questions like yours. >> >> Regarding your question in the forum, the internal save area format >> always has a "spare" long-word after each line, fuck knows why. So >> that is why every line is 4 bytes longer, because it just writes out >> the internal format. But it doesn't matter really, the "increment" >> field in the file header is what's important, for all it's worth it >> can be one 65kb per line and should still work, the field must just >> match the data. If you construct a file yourself, use whatever line >> increment pleases you. >> >> The fog is slowly clearing :) Thanks for your input. I > assumed anyone "in the know" would just know the answer and > not have to waste precious hours figuring out what was > already known, as I did - and presumably many before me. > Trying to derive the rules from the various implementors > proved frought, as it seems that, for pragmatic reasons (or > perhaps to compensate for other's non-compliance) they > mostly have their own rules for outputs and acceptable > inputs. Anyway, once Im certain, Ill write it up, so no one > needs to ask or answer this again. > > Per > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List -- Dave Park d...@sinclairql.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
