On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 at 16:13:29, you wrote:
(ref: <000501c10f9c$897efc00$b3075cc3@default>)
>New on the freeware software page on my website is a system called QH
>(QDOS Headers) which is meant for people like me wanting to store
>files on non-QDOS media. Many of us have bad experiences of losing
>executable QL program dataspaces and headers when programs saved on
>DOS or other 'native' format media have lost their executable file
>headers. QH consists of just two short BASIC programs which will store
>and restore the dataspace in a separate short file.
>
>This package was developed for use with the CD-ROMs I developed for
>Q-Celt Computing. I put the 'main' copy of programs in a QXL.WIN
>container for systems like QPC, QemuLator 2, uQLx, QXL, Q40/60 and
>others able to read QXL.WINs. I also add zipped archive files of these
>programs outside the QXL.WIN for users of systems able to read CD-ROM
>media via the host computer and transfer the zipped files onto QDOS
>floppy disks or other media, then unzip them on a QL.
>
>QH provides another method. You cannot use programs directly from a
>non-QDOS medium, but at least you can copy them to a QL, run a short
>BASIC program to restore the executable file header and execute them
>from there.
>
>The program which creates the _qh file in the first place can if
>required process every single executable file on a medium, creating a
>matching _qh file for each executable program. I hope this little QH
>utility will prove popular with anyone wishing to distribute QL
>software on CDs without being restricted to just the QXL.WIN systems.
Laurence Reeves (I think) did such program (qdos_hdr_bas) way back in
the 80s and I have used it for 14 years QBBS to allow users to download
an unzip program (or uncpt).
It is good though to re-invent the wheel (8-)#
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