Re: [Ql-Users] Remote Assistance
A lot of nicely coloured and interesting ink flying about at present... Here's my blot: 'Remote Diagnosis' p62f Computer Active : Issue 277 of 2-15 October 2008. Thanks to you all for education, diplomacy and lafs ;-) John in Wales (it rained yesterday Norman) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] London QL & Quanta Group Meeting - September 2008- cancelled
Combining Tony and Malcolm with my Welsh origins then - --- "Borough Welsh Congregrational Chapel" + PS - The building is an architectural gem, for anyone interested in historic buildings --- reminds me of a nearby galvanised steel constructed country chapel known locally as the "Corregationalists"! AveAgooDaye all of ye, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] sub-£100 notebook
Thanks Richard for your informative and helpful machine assesments. However, about "(8GB) SSD..." I am ignorant! SSD? please Richard. TIA Greetings to all John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Changing the printer port on Prowess
Hi folks,
Set: TECHNICAL MODE = 0
---
Set FEEL_GOOD_FACTOR =1
Proceed.
"Comprehension has broken out and it is wonderful. "
Peter
.. did us all :) good, did that one Peter!
=
"I'm not a native speaker"
François
I'm supposed to be [a "native {English} speaker"] - but I , for one,
François would
never have guessed, on the evidence presented, that you are not!
=
Isn't the Q-Ling World marvellous!
John in Wales
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Re: [Ql-Users] C48 cartridge
Re; Dilwyn's I've just had to scrap my son's old Epson Stylus C48 printer, which is beyond economic repair. We have a single unused TP066 black cartridge for it, which I'll happily post to anyone to avoid binning the cartridge. = Me too ditto, with a unopened HP cartridge '29 Black' (516 29GE). recyQLing! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] (no subject)
Hello Norman (Cook) Welcome to the list. Exciting days lie ahead for you and your QL! Re your question - Is this (Gold Card) the sort of thing you need to beef up your QL? [Short] Answer: yes! But be aware that there is another and better version - 'Super Gold Card'. Is there a list member who can point Norman to the current web-pages of QL tech info - rather than me re-inventing the wheel for him? :-) Please. Have fun Norman(C) ... and, of course, all other #Normans hereabouts - and especially, do I like the 'kilter', of the newest web-site - just announced here ;-) Look forward to more @ same. Thanks. Regards to all John (in Wales) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] BJ-10ex Quill driver
I received 4 identical copies of Chirs' mail. All seemingly 'sent' at 1803; but received 1806 to 2107. A record? 'Course, could be my ISP :( Chris said - 'I have just had to re-setup my little Canon BJ-10ex printer to use with Quill - no apologies for using such ancient kit - and wonder whether I have made it more complicated than necessary? The problem arose with the UKPound sign.. = I've more relevant 'til the middle of the night experience than I can bear to remember! - but never with a Canon. I suggest that you discretely try your option-1 OR option-2 but not AND. Have fun - hope you crack it. Please post. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Tony said (of me) - = Oh dear you misunderstand again I am afraid. Isn't text ridiculous. I have not intended to criticise or patronise or insult or anything else. I was just saying what I had experienced. I am sorry if you have read something else into the raw text. . I think I had better withdraw and not say anything more in the future = Thank you Tony; I fully accept that this originated in a hurried misunderstanding. If you withdraw, you will be sorely missed. :( My best wishes John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
hitchies wrote: > Tony said - > > What a con! > === > > I'll take that as an apology then. Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising anyone. Tony === ..that's enough patronising. Thank you Tony. Regards to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Tony said - What a con! === I'll take that as an apology then. Also, why separate DELL only for the (valid) flaming? - surely MAXTOR need to learn something too regarding their own advertised product support which they honour not? Not raining in Wales though! John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Re; This does not apply to Seagate (and Maxtor) or Western Digital. They do not ask for any information other than disk serial number. Tony === Tony must think I imagined it ;-) But, in case it is of further interest ,I copy two correspondences (from April 2004) below. I have a lot more including something 'formal' from Dell's legal dept! Regards to all, John in Wales == >From ME .. Can you help with this please? I bought from DELL (as I have told them) because I knew that they used only the best third-party suppliers. I have explained to them that surely (as it is stated by you on the device) it is underwritten by you - so why should DELL hesitate? In effect, to put it starkly, this situation puts MAXTOR - as well as DELL- in a bad light. . = >From DELL - Please include the following line in all replies. Tracking number: ET20040309_006363 Dear John. Thank you for contacting Dell Hardware e-support and services I understand your concern, but sorry to say that Dell treats only warranty issued on the time of purchase, not the warranty from the manufacturer. Once the part is purchased by any vendor and sent by Dell it is Dell's product and we will not consider the warranty of the manufacturer. I have even discussed the same with my manager and we will not be able to help you in this issue. = >From MAXTOR - Thank you for your email. When Maxtor sells hard drives to Computer Manufacturer's, they also sell the warranty of the drive to the PC Manufacturer. Therefore in this case Dell now owns the warranty of Maxtor drives which they use in their PCs. Maxtor no longer cover the warranty of their drives once the drives have been sold to PC Manufacturers. If you have any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact us again. Kind Regards, Edwina Fogarty, Customer Support, Maxtor Ireland. end-jgh ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Happy New Year to all! Tony said Check the guarantee. Seagate have a seven year one and that now covers Maxtor. Western Digital also have a long one. I have used all three many times successfully. -- In case this raises too many hopes... I was ( 3years ago) refused the clear terms of a maker's guarantee simply because I had bought the HD as part of a new machine built and supplied by a third party company(Dell) .. i.e. not direct from Seagate (or was it Maxtor?). When in the army I would have said "I was choked!" - 'cause I was. Thanks to all who have contributed here during 2007 and especially to those who maintain the list. It's great. Best regards, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Punters
Norman wrote... "Who needs a spring when you have gravity?" Please send me some (in green please) Norman! Thus, Malcolm wrote... I guess it also helps to be slightly mad ... :-) John in Wales (not raining) "Attendee" ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Punters
"punters"...? it's a bit shady Arfur Dailee. Before I vote, I'm waiting to read what we get when we Dunbar-it! When speaking English in Wales we say "bloke" & "blokes" unless, in the feminine case, when it is "blokess" & "blokesses". The Welsh have a word "saeson". This is often (mis)used to mean "that other lot,of uncertain origins". So let's adopt that !! :-) Next contributor I'll punt, will be Dilwyn?! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Timeslip
" turgid interchannge" ? Fog on the M%^ @ the M^ interchange...? ATB John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Marcel wrote: "VirtualPC for Windows is not an emulator like QPC, ... only run x86 systems on an x86 machine." I realised I might be missing something. And I was! :( Thanks Marcel, its 68000 clear now! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
MS "Virtual PC - 2007" --- I've just begun to look into/experiment with, this [downloaded MS freeware; v6.0.156.0] installed to W/Xp home. To my surprise it appears to offer platforms for other (than MS's) OS's. I have no complaints re: QPC2, (thanks Marcel!) but I do not know enough to know if there is any advantage here vis-a-vis the (easier?) implementation of Virtual QL's. Any comments out there? Best wishes to all John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity!
Dear New-house Norm. (...if I may address you thus ? ;-) Re: You have missed the 'any old iron' exchange then ? The Old-Iron was having a silent period. I am well now... thank you. May you be happy in your new house. [Should things get too hectic, try 'SLUG >25'!] (OT- c?) Regards to all - to those here who now help me with my English - and not forgetting those with ISP Tiscali sized current head-aches; of course. But especially to those who write contributive and helpful, joined-up stuff on this list. What lovlee wether weir XP-rensin.! John in Wales PS Not spell-checked. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Stupendipity!
[It's very quiet here - unless my eList-software has become invisibly unplugged! So - ] - Oh the ache! You QLusiasts just won't believe it! Here, on this list, I could have been shunned forever. Because - As a black-boxless but very ongoing QPC enthusiast, how could I have been so careless? 3 years ago, I gave away a Super Gold Card and (accidentally) my well thumbed, well loved, annotated copy of my 'GOLD CARD User Manual'. I did. I really did! :( :( I hear "Call yourself a QL enthusiast do we?" etc. etc. [O.K. shut up. ;-)] I just kicked the shredder (often) and grieved. You all know what excruciating fun, unstructured/uninformed-parameter juggling, can be - especially when you don't know how many balls should be in the air. And don't we just love it, when we've a bus to catch or Big Brother is just starting on the tele.? Nowhere, nowhere had I gre(a)y-haired had the foresight (for instance) to write on any high wall or omnibus panel - in any hand - in any colo(u)r(s) - on any scale - at any time of the day - or night - anywhere in the village - near or far from the fuzzhouse - that (of course) - BPUT#4,1,2,2,3: rules printer 2 to scale 3 - O.K.? or made it possible, if the mood was to take you (of course) for you to nip 'round a corner to read - 2,3 60 63 1x2 480 1.41 2x2 240 1.41 = Rules Seikosha O.K. ? Yesterday, oh wonderful day! looking for a special piece of waterproof board (for my cycle bag,what else?) I eyed a well-dusty box file. And there, rent-free, in that documentation doss-house, at my elbow, **it** was, in hiding. *And* some of its long lost unbundled pals! Yipee :) :) The blue file? Well, its labelled spine, boldy and neatly reads - '1.2.2.g System (non-bundled) Software - small documentations'. I kid you not. What else? So, rejoice with *me*, but believe in your *own* systems Greetings to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] e-mail address: format
David said - === At 13:49 12/05/2007, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >is a valid format string for internet e-mail addressing? Looks OK but their site does not seem to be offering email a/cs, do you have to aquire a domain first ? == As this is in connection with a 'business client' I am helping, I substituted (1 for 1) the alphas & case, but not the '@' or the '.' sss. or 'co.uk'. Therefore, it does not surprise me that - like just those WMD's - this pseudo 'site' does not exist either. Thanks however for your comments and advice. For those still interested and reading on :) 1. It seems that my O/Ex [Version 6.00.2900.2180.(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158] edits the 'original' [address] to this form - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then reports back - > This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > >Unrouteable address > 2. Since getting QL-list advice, I have tried using the 'original' address from another PC. (It seems to have worked... it hasn't come back.. yet!) Thanks and regards to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New QUANTA web site launched
Thanks Dan - a great resource. Thanks too, Marcel, for e-mail info. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] e-mail address: format
Hello everybody/anybody QL, Can anyone please tell me if - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid format string for internet e-mail addressing? (It's strictly based on one that keeps being rejected and returned as 'invalid'.) Thanks in advance, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] new hard disk
David wrote: I must try and write a program to see just how many directories there are. === Try www.gtopala.com Very useful [and free for private use] :-) Best wishes John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Wiki
Re Norman's: I vote for Rich's new one over Wikipedia. We can keep it relevant and all we have to do is put an external link on the Wikipedia one at each and every available opportunity. I vote for Norman's vote for Rich's proposal. Or,plainly(!) "I concur" (as medics say). John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Wiki
Re: ghoughpteighbteau! - Lau, I like it! :) :) :) John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OPD Expired!
Re: "...Richard, somewhat upset as he's only had the OPD a week :( Commiserations Richard. It's just not fair! Hope it can be fixed. :) Best wishes, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OPD Bits [was: Am I blocked?]
Re: > OnTopic: Got any OPD bits spare? ;) -- Roy (Wood) had a couple of new OPD microdrives from me some time ago. I remember that one of them was missing a discrete transistor (can't remember which) that I had sweated into a QL. Bet you can't find them in the pile Roy! >From country Tal-y-ban. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Am I blocked?
I can see you here in Wales, Rich. Note: We must do more to keep aliens out ! ;-) Regards, John in Wales PS: There isn't one - this time. Sorry to disappoint Roy. :( ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings + QL Chat
Hi everyone! Regarding my - = Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? == This problem (undiagnosed) now seems to have gone away! In reply to Geoff's "Do the duplicates come in at the same time or at different times?" I can say "at the same time". My thanks to Geoff, Malcolm, Rich and (the Not Very Far Away ) Norman. There's quite a lot of off-subject traffic here now. Personally I enjoy it but I do understand that others may not :( Is 'QL Chat' dead - does anyone know? John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings
Hi everyone! Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Comment from the "Traditional" QUANTA Committee
Tony wrote - === Forwarding? Does that mean 'replying' too? ... and is the default a '>' character? When I last looked (in OE) I think it mentioned the term 'quote text in-line'. == Message Auto Options in OE are - "reply", "reply all" and "forward". Related default settings are in - tools/options/send/plain text settings. They include - indent the original with ' > ' when replying or forwarding Best wishes to all - [including "lurkers" and Scotsmen] but especially those who, like me, have stubbornly attempted to change the CaSe of superbasic variable names on the fly etc.! Goodole QUANTA put me right (with ""). My thanks to that author. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
Re: Jan's - = I wonder if anyone here has some spare (not used) GC or SGC for sale? My QL has only superQboard with 512k RAM, which is good, but not enough (ZX emulator is demanding). I would appreciate if you could drop me an email. Thank you and sorry for the ad.. Such an ad. no problem here! But (today) if you find a GC or SGC 'not used' you will succeed where many others have failed. But, if so, please reveal your source(s) here! :-) Happy hunting and happy QLing, John in Wales PS And (belated) thanks to all who helped with the Kb, kb matter. I found the references very helpful. - J ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Glossary Terms WAS Thor Service/Technical Manual
Marcel wrote -
"Tony's talking about kbit/s, I presume you're talking about kbyte/s.
75kb/s is pretty much what can be expected from Tony's DSL upload
bandwidth. "
==
Sorry Marcel, but from this posting I still do not know whether your
'75kb/s' are kilo-bits or kilo-bytes! ;-)
This [kb-thing] is a very old and well cooked chestnut.
I was relieved a couple of years ago when, from discussions (technical
publications) I came to the conclusion that the consensus was now that:
Kb/s represented kilo bytes per second
and
kb/s represented kilo-bits per second
Now I'm in the dark again. More light please!! Thanks.
==
All this has brought to mind again an idea.
Recently I read, cover to cover, a national (educational) text book on IT;
from scratch to 'A' level and I shall not waste time describing the horrors
(contradictions and ambiguity) of the text and of its plentiful 'old'
exam-board questions. It is its glossary that interests me here. [ The
discussion above is quite representative of some of the annotations with
???'s I have pencilled in there.]
What I propose - for our amusement - is that occasionally I quote on *this*
list from one of the short definitions in that glossary. The implication
being that I will be throwing it out (to the dog(s)!) to chew over - if they
like. If there is a dog fight, or a howl, I shall wait (and learn) on the
sidelines. Else; after a decent time I shall throw in another piece of meat
from the same source.
It seems to me that this might benefit all readers - whatever their current
position in the knowledge-stakes. {Remember TV's 'Yes minister'? and "how
do I
know that I need to know..."!?}
You doggies out there might like to give me your comments on this ..
With best wishes to all for 2007
John in Wales
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Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile
Re: > Let me know Bill if you would like me to e-mail that page to you - it's > quite short. Yes please John if it's no trouble So, here we go Bill. - Stephen Morris' 1986 "Archive User's Reference Manual" p141 with - COMMANDS FOR PRINTING - [OCRd and p.read!] Command - = Spoolon "(filename)" "(filename)" export Effect - Opens a list file to receive all printer output. === How to Use - Before entering a printing command (such as Dump or Lprint) enter the Spoolon command, followed by a suitable filename. The program assumes that the file is to be contained on the current data drive and attaches a default .LIS extension if no other is given. >From this point on, anything that would otherwise have gone to the printer is instead stored in the list file, in a form suitable for later printing. This file can include entire data files, printed with the Dump command, or individual items, printed with Lprint. It may also include a program listing (see the Lust command in Chapter 16). If the printouts are to be incorporated in a Quill document, rather than being directly printed, then you should add the Export parameter to the end of the command: this option is covered in more detail in Chapter 20. Once the file is complete it must be closed with the Spooloff command described below. Comments - = Only one list file can be open at a time. The list file has a special format which cannot be used for other purposes. You cannot read the contents of the list file back into memory. It can only be used for background printing, or if the Export parameter has been added, for import to Quill. Background printing is achieved with the Xchange Output command (see below). __ Command - === Spooloff === Effect - Closes any open list file = How to use - When you have finished directing printer out put to the list file, enter this command and the file will be closed. [endjgh] Relearning QL - you and me both. Best wishes Bill; John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.22/590 - Release Date: 16/12/2006 17:39 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile
Marcel wrote - "For the record, if at all, the SPOOLON command should probably be issued before all the LPRINT statements..." === At some time (empirically based) I have annotated Stephen Morris' 1986 "User's Reference Manual" p141 with - SPOOLON SCREEN - valid with 'dump' and 'lprint' & SPOOLOFF "..use before 'lprint' to printer if SPOOLON SCREEN has been used. Let me know Bill if you would like me to e-mail that page to you - it's quite short. Seasons' Greetings to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/586 - Release Date: 13/12/2006 18:13 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Booting QPC2 v3.3 and Hot_Keys and QPACII etc/ & New XCH boot
My thanks to you Marcel, Rich and Per for your advice regarding this. The problem is now solved ... though I shall have to follow the sages' advice and get meself updated! It is a **big** boot - with many Procs. It seems that I was clumsy with the SB editor and accidentally renumbered (=relocated) a line of code, when I meant to delete it. Putting that right put things right. I am returning to QDOS after several (unavoidable) years away. I have a new Proc in the (QPC2) boot to call EXCHANGE from a command line. Below is some code that I wrote when I had SMSQ/E on a SGC. The code means nothing to me now however [age!]. Are such parameters/safeguards advisable in the QPC2 environment. Would anyone like to comment please?. 1600 : 1610 DEFine PROCedure XCH 1620 REMark EXECUTE XCHANGE + jgh ++ 1630 REMark If TK2 then 'EX' may be used with param 'n' (as below) 1640 REMark Empirically (by 26 controlled tests in jgh '837K free' system) - 1650 REMark XCHANGE[itself] always grabs 297.5 + (n-64)K [wkg K] THUS - 1660 REMark IF n<64 n=64! XCEPT: n=0 XCH grabs some but not allRAM (517K in jgh) 1670 REMark n<0, XCH has no cursor!: (n-64) >availble RAM, QLlocks up ! 1680 REMark so, Max 'n' for jgh '837K free' system was 535 1690 : 1700 Xmem=750: Xpram$=INT((Xmem-297.5)+64) : REMark Use Notes above 313.5 1710 CLS #0:PRINT #0\\ TO 3;"Loading: XCHANGE"\" RAM Allocated: ";Xmem;'K' 1720 DATA_USE flp1_: EX XCHANGE;Xpram$: REMark IfNotTK2 use"exec", NO param. 1730 CLS #0 1740 : 1750 END DEFine XCH 1760 Can I scrap the parameter detail? - it works (?) now with - 'ex win1_exchange' Regards to all John in Wales (jgh) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
Derek Stewart wrote: > I have a Microvitec Cub 1431MB monitor, which I would like to use with a > Sinclair QL. > > Does anyone know the video connections on the Microvitec Cub 1431MB monitor, > which hasa 7 Pin DIN (270 deg) video socket on the back of the monitor. > > I have the connections on QL from the QL User manual. Hi Derek - this I can tell you from experience - "the manual [concepts p33] is **wrong**" if not dated "12/84" :0( I have details for CUB 653 TTL which is 6 pin design and 5 pins used. Should you like a graphic file of my layout(both ends) e-mail me direct. I have no copy, but QL World, May 1987, page 25 is relevant - according to my annotations!! Good luck. John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Booting QPC2 v3.3 and Hot_Keys and QPACII etc
Greetings from Wales. I have a problem boot program for these progs (above) - and I have read the documentation... and seen the example boot progs published there! ;-) 1 = If I call my HOT_RESs & HOT_DOs family from code inside a boot PROCedure, the system freezes with funny (random ?) graphic rainbow pixels in the area inside QPC2's (ver$ 3.23) window but outside any previously written (QPC2) area. [In a clean fresh implementation] If I hide the call (behind a REM) and then run the boot again things all seem OK - except of course nowt (from that procedure) is 'resident' etc. Then, if I immediately use a SBASIC command line to call that same SB procedure - I get all my QPACI's etc and the cursor and I'm cookin' on gas in the wider environment - it seems! :) Any suggestions please? PS: with this SMSQ/E (v.3) I am **not** including PTR_GEN, HOT_REXT or WMAN anywhere in my boot. 2 = But how about this too, please. When I do a dir. (via windows explorer) of QPC2's floppies, either the master or backup, there is a file in the listing with the name - SMSQE.BIN However, to my bewilderment, W/Me shows me that one of the properties of these files is - 290Kb 'AVG update file' I am not, how did you guess? a Pointer Env. etc wiz but to me AVG = AVG(risoft) = alias Grisoft Anti Virus. Is this a special cousin of Marcel's or Toby's etc or does its presence indicate a problem(s)? = Thanks, fellahs and (any) girls, John -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Platforms & OSs (was month number)
Thanks Dilwyn/Dilwynne for "The 'platform' in this context means the computer hardware on which the operating system being used is based. Thus if you are running QPC2 on Windows, the platform would probably be a PC, the operating system Windows running emulated SMSQ/E" ... [Leaving out 'emulations' which I (think I :-) understand] So, is it as I first thought? i.e. SMSQ/E is an operating system? What am I to make of Bill's "Q40,Q60, QPC2, Aurora and SGC" ? and George's "Atari Aurora Gold Card Q40/60 QXL" as "'5 operating systems for SMSQE v 3.12'"? If so, what *platforms* do *they* run on? Still "can't get me 'ead 'round it". :( My thanks to all who have contributed. John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/450 - Release Date: 18/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] month number
Dilwyn (with one 'n') said - "...The collective sharing of information and ideas is a brilliant feature of the QL scene. " Couldn't agree more! Have a good one, wherever you are. John in Wales PS Still puzzled re; diff between O.S. and 'platform' in our recent context. :( -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 15/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Q40 and SMSQE v3.12
Re:'5 operating systems for SMSQE v 3.12' and .. - Q40,Q60, QPC2, Aurora and SGC .. all the best - Bill === The five are: Atari Aurora Gold Card Q40/60 QXL George == Thank you Bill and George I mistakenly thought that they were 5 *platforms* for one OS; i.e. SMSQE ! I still "can't get me 'ead 'round it". But that's my prob! John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.3/445 - Release Date: 11/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Q40 and SMSQE v3.12
George wrote (thank you George ;-) '5 operating systems for SMSQE v 3.12' As they say in Liverpool, "I can't get me 'ead 'round that". Would anyone like to climb in and help me please? Best regards to all John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/442 - Release Date: 08/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] leaked email address - contact
Re: Go on. Tell the uninatiated (like me). Please. ;-) Thanks Tony - it was an *innocent* (enquiry OR inquiry) - you choose ;) I tried it... got "circa nineteen million, one-hundred-thousand" hits before I was relieved to realize that I had not entered my complete e-address. Phew! When I did... I got zero. :) Re: I often wonder who are the fools who respond to spam. If no-one ever got results, then the number would reduce. Loads must need \/1agra (8-)# Warning; Sage Mode Coming On: It seems to me that contributors to this list are, by definition, somewhat confident persons. If not we would not know anyway!!! [And I do *not* mean that *all* lurkers, lack confidence.] Many lonely and isolated people are in that unenviable situation (foolish) because they lack self esteem (incl. confidence). Perhaps they have made a 'mess' of their lives; perhaps they really do *need* money &/or prowess. To them, the fact that someone **might** be interested in them - for whatever reason - is an (e-mail) encounter too precious to ignore. That's the poison bait. Sure, they are gullible - but that' s not reprehensible or a crime. (And let's hope that we made no contribution to their unwarranted introspection. :-) ) Best regards to one & all, John in Wales PS As I said (here) sometime ago, "What happened to 'QL Chat'"? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] leaked email address - contact address forjdh-stech.com
Jim - bad luck; and you are not on my lists. :-) Tony: Re - "Best way to check is to Google for your literal email address" Go on. Tell the uninatiated (like me). Please. ;-) Yours gargling and gurgling, but not googling, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 16/06/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Thanks Tony re: the gnokii software and a serial interface. (http://bryns.org.uk) === David wrote - Whilst on the subject, are the angels dancing on the head of my pin male or female ? = Has it been hissed That the jist Of this list Has been missed? Whatever happened to 'QL-Chat'?! :) Cheers, John in Wales. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 26/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Robert wrote - As I thought, but shirley "you and I", the subject of the missing/implicit verb is plural (together as one pronoun: "we") and so would use "are" and not "am"? = I bet I'm not the only one what would like to meet shirley! What fun ;) John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 26/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] SMS SOS [OT?]
Per writes - A friend of mine may just have won his court case thanks to an SMS he had the foresight to keep! (Mine are more likely to get me into trouble, but what the hell! Id like to keep them all the same ;) === Without interface software (for my Nokia 1100) I was glad I archived certain *micro digital images* from my SMS. It eventually made the legal boys and girls very happy with me! :) Regards to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 26/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)
Re: Roy (Wood's) === 'a whole series about writing a BOOT file for QPAC2 and how to use that program and get to the useful bits. .' == Thank you Roy. I'll have to work on it **and** subscribe to QL Toady! ;) I await an annointing with pointing. Regards to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 27/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)
Dilwyn wrote - QRAM itself was discontinued some years ago, although possibly some of the traders may have second hand copies if you are lucky. QPAC2 is its nearest living relative, though not exactly the same software. Elements of QRAM are built into other products these days - ramdisks and screen dumps are in disk interfaces and you can get an sdump_rext for systems where it's not built in (I think it's supplied with QPC2, though not 100% sure), pointer environment is now freely available from the websites of Wolfgang Lenerz and myself, some of the job control facilities have vaguely equivalent menus in QPAC2 and so on. -- Dilwyn Jones = Thanks Dilwyn. I have QPC2 & QPAC2. 'Fraid I havn't found the key (yet!) to its QRAM-like attributes/utilities/pointer-screen. :( If its a case of read the manuals (again!) - then so be it. Do I have to write a pointer-prog. to get this functionality? With my thanks John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/321 - Release Date: 21/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Printer Problem
[Third attempt :( - 2 previous returned. Why??!] == Re Robert's: durabrite...is that the same as the coating that goes on Ally [coach] wheels so that you don't need to polish them to keep them shiny? I've managed similar unblocking by sparingly using warm water with old cartridges - until normal service was resumed (via invocation (!) of ROM auto-head-cleaning routine). ;) What technique do you mean? Removing an bathing head in warm water, or injecting it into an old cartridge and installing that? = Hi Robert! DURAbrite = [One of?] Epson's **waterproof** inks! Place the catridge(s), head down, in lookwarm water - just enough to cover its head only. Wait for a colour show. Dab dry with tissue. Insert to printer. Run test with scrap paper(s) until you have a dry product. === Re Malcolm's: Umm ... so you are still around then, John ? . :-) Hi Malcolm ! Not as round as I used to be. But, luurkingly reading the much erudition on this list. ;-) = I can't believe I'm asking this :( . but where is QRAM obtained please? What is its current status & price? Regards to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/311 - Release Date: 13/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] printer problem
Robert said - ...any suggestions how to clear (trying propan-2-ol seems to have had little effect (other than to get one dot working for minimal time), though it does "collect" the other colours quite well - I dismantled the "head" unit to get direct access to the jets...the C460 has a ... -- The "Epsom [racing !] stylus Colour 460" is (I believe) 'NonDURAbrite' inked. I've managed similar unblocking by sparingly using warm water with old cartridges - until normal service was resumed (via invocation (!) of ROM auto-head-cleaning routine). ;) HTH. Regards to all, John, in the Wales they can find when they deliver to the door ... :-) -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/301 - Release Date: 04/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)
Regarding versions of the Psion-4. Don't let's forget the ICL [Personal Computer]: "OnePerDesk", ROM(s)! Regards to all, John in Wales PS Is QL Chat defunct? - does anyone know, please. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.11/191 - Release Date: 02/12/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Modem talk?
Greetings to all, The first part of some O/E 'inbox' e-mails headers contain lists with elements like this one: X-EMS: wait 510s I assume that = 'wait 8 mins 30 sec.'! Am I right in assuming that this value (and an associated delay in transmission) is generated directly in relation to time spent progressing the mail thru' the [front-end] virus checker and prior to offering it to the remote server over the network? Anyone ideas please? Regards, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 21/10/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
