Re: [ql-users] Re: Changing the subject
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: Changing the subject Hey - I'm willing to accept anything as payment - though preferably only sheep that have been slaughtered and carved up so I do not need a new freezer... -- Rich Mellor OK, I'll test this by ordering a program from you. 20 best Welsh sheep in the post to you tonight ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones not that simple I think, are they in lamb?, or maybe lambs?, breeding stock?, ewe's?, tups?. What is the exchange rate welsh sheep to Euro sheep. And last but by no means least - you may need a license ! All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Quanta
- Original Message - From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Tony Firshman wrote: snip a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000. b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000. c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health Human Services) Then think about this: a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000. b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500. c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.000188. Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. now please compare the number of deaths leaving out the word accidental All the best - Bill ( ps to our American cousins, no offence meant )
Re: [off topic] Re: _SPAM_ Re: [ql-users] Miracle's Hard Disk System
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [off topic] Re: _SPAM_ Re: [ql-users] Miracle's Hard Disk System On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:06:06 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 at 18:45:12, Roy wood wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arnould Nazarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As you started I continue this off topic conversation: your message was filtered out by my little antispam utility because of sussex in the signature Damn, I was just going to ask you how to reanimate my life !!! One of the main problems with antispam software. Recent enquires about the Text87 patch got bounced because of the word patch in the title. I must have had a very protected innocent life. 'patch'? What on earth is the connection there? Hmmm Nicotine Patch, Birth-Control-Patch, Make your [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ bigger patch etc. Or of course the usual: New patch from Microsoft ... etc. Phoebus And Tony missed the obvious one - bicycle tube patch (;-) Al the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
- Original Message - From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Marcel Kilgus wrote: This puts the seemingly massive current SMSQ/E for QPC in perspective (currently at 287kb. However, last version for QPC1 was 191kb big! A lot has happened since then... the 3 included screen driver alone take up a whole lot of space). Does anyone remember what was originally intended to occupy the 32768-65535 space? Was that all meant to be available for ROM expansion? Or was some of it intended for some other use? Dave Second screen ? If anyone is interested I think Joe Miller still has some Thor stuff ( 2 or 3 machines but maybe not all working). probably get his attention by leaving a message at Applications unlimited ( sorry don't have url at hand ) All the best - Bill
[ql-users] Re: [ql-users] RE: [ql-users] MyDoom worm
presumably Tony holds the master card though (;-) All the best - Bill - Original Message - From: Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: [ql-users] RE : [ql-users] MyDoom worm What ? Your dog own a mail and a Credit Card ? Message d'origine De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de TonyTebby Date: mer. 28/01/2004 10:59 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Objet: Re: [ql-users] MyDoom worm All [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mimail.R) worm mails that I am getting are coming from 212.194.21.158 = f02m-10-158.d1.club-internet.fr (with all sorts of spoofed addresses) and not from Marcel. My dog Mozart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is also being bombarded with Mimail-F worm e-mails telling him that his PayPal account is about to expire. This has a very nasty Credit Card details gathering attachment. Tony Tebby
Re: [ql-users] small LCD screen
- Original Message - From: Arnould Nazarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 4:13 PM Subject: [ql-users] small LCD screen Hello, This small LCD screen http://www.earthlcd.com/SK1001.HTM can be bought in quantities of several thousand at 20 USD. AFAIU this is an interesting price. However I am amazed by the quality of the display of Nixon+Presley in the example given. Can anyone confirm that it is possible to display such crisp images with such a LCD? Arnould Treated ourselves to a new tele this Christmas, no it's not LCD but if I was rich enough it would have been, if you doubt how good they are walk into your local Dixons/Curries and have a look ( leave your plastic at home though, you could be tempted) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QL Documentation
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Documentation Not all of the material is there yet, but it's a hug improvement That is almost as good as QL Toady. Are you trying to say 'big' is huggable (8-)# I'm big, I'm definitely huggable (says my wife). Can you leave me out of the queue though please (8-)# :-) Next competition...make a meaningful sentence out of all of my silly typposs...;-) Forget it - I have many more, although I usually edit them out as I have a spell check going. 'hug' though passes that doesn't it! 'Hugs' sometimes lead to 'improvements' thougha good hug often makes you feel better as long as it's from the right person...consider a Freddy (bear?) hug though :-| or worse a (bare) Freddy hug All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] RGB to UHF conversion
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: QL Chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: [ql-users] RGB to UHF conversion Having just bought a Freeview Digibox I've run into a slight problem which is worth mentioning here in case it helps anyone with similar problems with video signals. Answers off list if you think it's too far unconnected to QL matters. The Freeview digital TV decoder only has a SCART output (no UHF/RF aeriel output). Although my video and TV have SCART sockets, it turns out that the one on the video is output only, so I can't record from the Freeview system nor view it via the TV tuner, bit of a pity given the shifts I work. (The video can ONLY record from UHF aerial socket, it has no composite video input either, cheap Tesco £70 video!) The obvious answer to all this is would be some form of RGB to UHF modulator to connect SCART socket video output to a standard aerial socket for a UHF TV. Does anyone know if such devices are available? If they are, they'd be ideal for connecting computer RGB outputs to TV sets, for example. -- Dilwyn Jones had similar problems ( so I thought ) fitting vcr and sky box to new tele over Christmas , turned out to be one of the scart leads was dodgy. ended up working the way I had it originally digibox to vcr input, vcr output to tele no problems since All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] General Sort out
- Original Message -
From: thegilpins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: [ql-users] General Sort out
It has suddenly become very quiet on the QL-users list - nothing to
read for
four days now. Has everyone logged off for Christmas? Here's a little
something to occupy your minds and time between the season's
festivities:
Having purchased Launchpad and QWord as well as updated my SMSQ/E and
QPac2,
my system does not run as well as it used to. The basic principles
have
remained unchanged since I used two Aurora/SGC/QuBide machines at work
and
in order to keep all the database files (.dbf) up to date, these two
machines were networked across the office - slow but very reliable I
found.
I have always started off with the obligatory boot file in which I
LRESPR
just about every toolkit etc imaginable and set up my ALTKEYs etc. I
then
provide the option of installing SMSQ - the Accounts package 'Cash
Trader'
would not run under SMSQ - hence the reason for giving the option. At
the
end of the boot programme, I EXed a QLiberated SuperBASIC programme
called
GENERAL_MENU_obj which includes a clock correction prog and then a
menu to
provide one of five options plus a 'Return to SuperBASIC' from which I
could
do all the things a basic machine could do, or something specific like
'Family Trees' - Genealogy - or 'Scouting'. Having retired 4 years
ago, I
have now decided to get rid of all the 'Company System' stuff and
substitute
all the Quanta stuff I have either inherited or have written during
the last
couple of years - at present QUANTA runs from floppies only. Over
the last
few years - gosh, how time flies once one has retired! - I have made
various
half hearted attempts to get all my QL stuff installed on the PC
running
QPC2 - now have 3V11 installed - only to find that any reference to
networking (nfs_use etc) causes an error. So, the whole thing needs
sorting
out.
Where do I start? (From the beginning! - boot)?
How do I know which toolkits and extensions are required for which
programmes and which programmes load their own extensions? (Could this
cause
duplicate entries if the same toolkit is loaded twice, or use up
unnecessary
memory?) Is there any way of uninstalling an extension once loaded?
Since SMSQ causes a complete reset when loaded, should I be loading
toolkits
after SMSQ or before (in case I want to use QDOS) or both ('cos if
it's all
lost when SMSQ loads it would only be loaded once anyway)?
Has anyone got any pearls of wisdom to offer?
Have a GREAT Christmas everyone and happy QLing in 2004
John Gilpin.
Time to consider how many of these extentions you need on a regular
basis and have possibly a boot that loads smsqe and then offers you the
choice of running one of two or three alternative configuration of
extentions depending on what your going to do in that session, from
there it would be possible to load in other extentions should you decide
you need them
It should be easy enough to avoid duplication of extentions buy testing
for them in basic ( write procedures to load extentions and report
already loaded should that be the case
Ah if only I had time to practise what I preach.
Merry christmes to all
All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor On 16 Oct 2003 at 9:57, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Above statement is formally credited as Copyright (C) Roy Wood sometime in the last 3 years :o| Do you think Roy would ... licence it? Wolfgang some would say it was open sauce (;-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL??
- Original Message - From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 2:15 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] What printers do people use with their QL?? On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, P Witte wrote: Epson stylus colour 850. Beats the LX80 hands down, George. The speed is up and the decibels are down. Epson ink is more expensive than Dom Pérignon and doesnt taste as good, but generics are available at 1/4 of the price. Where can I get this generic Dom Perignon? Dave My Epson 740 is still going well and has usb and centronics ports allowing conection to PC and QL simu, simat ( at the same time). A local firm, Red Shark currently sell colour cartridges for it for £3.99 ( on offer - usually £21 is for three) you can get them on line I think. Problems - some cheap cartridges do not seem to support Epsons ( I empty - change me ) routine, resulting in the need to aquire fast fingers when changing cartridges, I'm sure there must be a way to get the printer back into the proper sequence for cartridge changing, any suggestions would be welcome. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Whats up?
- Original Message - From: Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Whats up? [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes some magical things to make me read } } I think its time to start a riot then - } } Aren't QL's rubbish?? Windows is much better. Windows ? What's the relation between computer and house hardware ? (excepted home-computing of course). QL-compatible are just fine, anyway. And to get the fresh air someone seems to need: Doors are much better! Btw, your grammar is bogus, plural requires are instead of is. Repeat after me: I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, you are, they are. I was, you were, he/she/it was, we were, you were, they were. I will, you will, he/she/it will, we will, you will, they will. I have been, you have been, he/she/it has been, we have been, you have been, they have been I had been, you had been, he/she/it had been, we had been, you had been, they had been ... I'd sing along but what's the tune? All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Testing new email - please ignore
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Testing new email - please ignore On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:05:26 +0200, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's only me - getting sorted aout at home. Cheers, Norman. You're too important to ignore :-) (There now, it made you feel good didn't it? :-P) Phoebus and the dictionary is on the top shelf of the bookcase (;-) All the best - Bill ( who may or may not be the worst speller ever known)
Re: [ql-users] Geoff's departure
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Geoff's departure He took one look at this weird foursome - A long haired rocker, a bearded engineer, an tanned american, and a fat irish bloke Well there you have it Had you been a pin striped bean counter, a wide red braces type, a very smart young geek and a multi millionaire with money to invest would we be talking of the QL's demise (;-) and whilst I'm waxing notso lyrical, all the best - Geoff though I'd rather you stayed, and to the rest of you thanks for staying. Oh I think I should attend a show this year it's been so long since I did and there are a host of upgrades I need, problems over the last few years of looming redundancy ( thankfully avoided ) and ailing distant father in law coupled with a mileage limiting car lease curtailed many a venture. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards Hi Jerome, No, it never leak! That bit was a joke - honest Oh yes it does leak, trouble is you guys obviously have not heard of the smoke theory !The Smoke Theory of Electric Circuits Electrical Theory by Joseph Lucas Positive ground depends upon proper circuit functioning, the transmission of negative ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as smoke. Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work; we know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of the electrical system, it stops working. This can be verified repeatedly through empirical testing. When, for example, the smoke escapes from an electrical component (i.e., say, a Lucas voltage regulator), it will be observed that the component stops working. The function of the wire harness is to carry the smoke from one device to another; when the wire harness springs a leak, and lets all the smoke out of the system, nothing works afterwards. Starter motors were frowned upon in British Automobiles for some time, largely because they consume large quantities of smoke, requiring very large wires. It has been noted that Lucas components are possibly more prone to electrical leakage than Bosch or generic Japanese electrics. Experts point out that this is because Lucas is British and all things British leak. British engines leak oil, shock absorbers, hydraulic forks and disk brakes leak fluid, British tyres leak air and the British defense establishment leaks secrets...so, naturally, British electrics leak smoke. Author Unknown Subject: SMOKE When wires smoke, how come the smoke is not the same color as the wire? This is not completely true. When the smoke is in the wire, it is under pressure (called voltage). The pressure difference causes the color to change from the normal color we are used to. Not unlike the blood in our veins and arteries changing color due to the oxygen content. When the smoke escapes the wire and is exposed to air, the pressure is released, and the color reverts back to what we commonly recognize as smoke. The wire then changes to the color of the smoke that escaped. I hope this helps you understand. I would only question the last sentence of that description. It has been my experience that the wire turns a color directly oposite of the smoke. Not always true, I think it must depend on the composition of the smoke in question. I should have made it a little clearer; the color the wire becomes, is directly proportional to the escape velocity of the smoke. Higher velocities generate higher heat. This heat tends to burn the wire and affect the coloring. The statement was meant to be a generalization, indicating the fact that the color of the wire does infact change. Sorry for the miscomunication. I was speaking of electrcal smoke which is generally white. The spent smoke casing generally assumes a color somewhat near black after the smoke leaves. I can't stand it anymore! If, as you say, light bulbs suck up darkness and convert it to smoke which is transmitted (via wire) to a power source for recycling...why do car batteries go dead when lights are left on? Do car batteries (and flashlight batteries for that matter) have a limited amount of storage capability? Is it like a hard drive that gets so full that you have to double-space and then lose all data? Now you're getting it... I thought you guys were smarter than this. Of course the battery stores the smoke. In fact it can store so much smoke that if you open the top and light a match, the resulting explosion can do serious damage. I'm sure you are aware that usually where there's smoke there's fire. If you connect the battery to a charger, the smoke is then returned to the wire (Remember, a light bulb wont work unless it is connected to a wire system) for the utility companies to use. Your hard drive analogy is a very good example. Our hardware guys might be onto something in their quest for superior wiring. I have noticed the unique method of of series/parallel wiring the power strips on our systems seems to prevent the smoke from getting out of the wires. A Smoke Loop of sorts. In the case of the smoked workstation recently, you should notice that this was a conventional single power strip installation. Since color is percieved by the cone shaped receptors in our eyes, and cones require more light that their rod shaped counterparts. Is the sky blue at night? At night the process including contraction of the pupil is visual purple by which the eye adapts to conditions of increased illumination when facing 300 candle power redeflecting devices. Since there is a spectrum of light that we as humans cannot see, I support the theory that everything is going up in smoke, we just can't see it. This may explain why the neighbors dog barks for no
Re: [ql-users] Bird Flu (OT)
- Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Bird Flu (OT) - Original Message - From: Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM I have been making increasingly critical comments about QUANTA on this list and getting no response. Do they still exist? There are more elusive than so called *weapons of mass destruction. Geoff Wicks * A little bit of politics included to upset Tony. Work out for yourself whether I mean Blair or Firshman. Yes lets keep politics out of it Point taken Bill, but I'm sure you'll like this one. After reading this list I went to the website of Radio Netherlands to pick up their main Dutch stories. As you may know there has been a serious outbreak of bird flu in the Netherlands, which has led to scenes rather like the foot and mouth crisis. In one area they had to use asylum seekers to clear up the carcasses which was difficult to do legally. To solve the problem the local tax inspector allowed them to use an NI number and register under the name F Birdflu. The Society for Hobby Pet Owners (who opposed the slaughter) are now prosecuting the tax office for criminal acts and forgery. The Ministry of Finance accepts this should not have happened, but adds that it was a crisis situation. I Like it, my next vote will go for proportional rights for minorities and extremists, seems to me they have a disproportionate amount of say for their size at the moment. Actually Geoff my comments re politics was meant to be light-hearted with the point that we used to have a great non entity called Lucan, somehow I managed to scramble the mail. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
- Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich QUANTA should fund it - Can anyone from QUANTA make a comment on this? Are there any of the QUANTA guys still on this list?? I am also beginning to ask this. I have been making increasingly critical comments about QUANTA on this list and getting no response. Do they still exist? There are more elusive than so called *weapons of mass destruction. Geoff Wicks * A little bit of politics included to upset Tony. Work out for yourself whether I mean Blair or Firshman. Yes lets keep politics out of it Anyway whats wrong with Lord Lucan - or has he been found, no don't tell me, he's working down the chip shop with Elvis All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich
- Original Message - From: gwicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich QUANTA should fund it - Can anyone from QUANTA make a comment on this? Are there any of the QUANTA guys still on this list?? I am also beginning to ask this. I have been making increasingly critical comments about QUANTA on this list and getting no response. Do they still exist? There are more elusive than so called *weapons of mass destruction. So what happened to Lord Lucan
Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:08 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1? Morning Dilwyn, Women eh - they always accuse us menfolk of having so much junk, then you walk into the bathroom and find . 8,000 assorted bottled of gunk (not the engine cleaner) each of which has a purpose and is really needed for some reason or other. Men have soap, shampoo and maybe after shave. In the kitchen, my wife has a fetish for bowls. She has hundreds of the damned things - you can't move for bowls. What's wrong with having hundreds of books, floppy discs, bits of cable etc etc ? Oh I so agree. nature may abhor a vacuum but not anywhere as much as women abhor empty space on a bathroom shelf ( or Quill with empty ram - obligatory QL bit ) All he best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
- Original Message - From: P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1? Lau writes: Tony Firshman wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 00:43:13, Lau wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Marcel Kilgus wrote: The history is documented here http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html Can someone please define Gradual Underflow. That was the core issue being addressed. (don't if I have simply missed it in this thread) Pity Lau wasn't involved. Working in the care industry I thought Id heard it all, but this sounds scary: One used traps, one trap to catch results that underflowed and denormalize them to produce subnormal numbers, and another trap to catch subnormal operands and prenormalize them. If numbers have rights someone ought to go after these guys. Per Can they have rights when they wer'nt born equell? ( did'nt understand a word of this thread but if you wait long enough you get to say something ) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLtoday and CD On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:10:18 +, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Jochen will be there. Whether Roy and I make it depends on the return of Roy's new passport! He is currently trapped in the UL (8-)# Sorry for being so ignorant... but what's UL? :-) Pheonetic alphabet Uniform Lima All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QL Pawn by Magnetic Scrolls
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Pawn by Magnetic Scrolls In a message dated 06/02/03 22:04:42 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you get any replies for this Rick. I have a load of stuff that an X Qlr gave me I think QLPawn is in there but have not had time to go through it and list it all to paper as yet. Two Miracle hard discs as I recall and loads of programming books in all sorts of languages I did manage to get a copy of QL Pawn which now works fine thanks Bill... Are you looking to sell this equipment?? I am already selling a load of stuff for Quanta... Yes , it belonged to Ian Bruntlett so there is lots of programming stuff in it, Ian left it with me as he was going to dump it. It is taking up a lot of space in my garage so I would like to get rid of it, there's a working Cub monitor as well. I really must get it all listed. so much to do - so little time ( I spend hours just pondering this problem ) (:-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QMON2
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QMON2 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 10:20:20, TonyTebby wrote: (ref: 003001c2be09$cc9512a0$34b2933e@tony) Norman Dunbar wrote: I'm replying to myself - how sad :o) Dilwyn Jones replied A colleague was having a bad morning today. We knew he was having a bad morning, he'd gone beyond talking to himself, he was answering his own questions then when someone commented he claimed that was the most intelligent conversation I've had in this place for some time. We decided it was best to let him keep telling himself his jokes. I guess Jeff would have said to you that replying to yourself is not as bad as it seems, it means you've managed to figure something out for yourself and (allegedly) learned something! (at least that was his excuse for talking to himself, it drowned out the babble from the rest of us!) I used to solve a lot of problems this way but, since I moved to France I have started talking to myself in French. The trouble is, my French is so bad I cannot understand myself. Thanks for that Tony. Is it equally mad to fall about laughing alone in ones office - tears and all. Quote from a member of another list I'm on I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it now that's a philosophy to follow (:-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QTrans v0.07
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: QL News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: [ql-users] QTrans v0.07 Q-Trans V0.07 Released I've now placed on my website version 0.07 of Q-Trans. This version has been converted to the Launchpad default colour scheme rather than the original bright green scheme. A few funnies when accessing the DOS device of QPC2 have been addressed, with assistance from Marcel Kilgus, who tells me that he will consider a small change to the DOS device in future versions to help me make Q-Trans more robust with the DOS device. Aha - so this may explain why I have had no joy trying to unzip Qtrans transfered from Dos1_ All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Using WMAN and EasyPTR
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: [ql-users] Using WMAN and EasyPTR What is the best way of setting the mouse pointer to a blank pointer, so nothing appears on screen when the mouse is moved about. hows about some very dark glasses Rick (:-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Merry Christams to all QLers
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Merry Christams to all QLers Hi Bill, Nice sentiment, thanks Norman and seasons greetings to you. I take it you going someplace where they no about hogmany Did I really type no for know--^ and then complain about the use of English Doh slinks of in shame. Strangely enough, I went somewhere where Hogmany is unknown - All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Happy celebrations
- Original Message - From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Happy celebrations What is really embarrassing is when someone from England reminds us in the States just how bad our English is! jim and here in UK the better English is spoken by some of the Scots and the better English orators comes mostly from the Welsh. Seasonal greetings to all - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size Ôçí 20/12/2002 2:45:02 ìì, ï/ç Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: In article 009d01c2a821$6a66bbe0$2201a8c0@pc119, Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Dilwyn always underestimates what a truly gifted QL programmer he is. Yes, he has the 'knack' of doing programs that are both interesting and useful to a wide range of people and needs. All I can say is, if you like Q-Trans, wait until you see Launchpad. I am sure it will be worthwhile :-) There is a screenshot on one of the last 3 QLTs (I forget which one now)... it's easy to pass it over but pay attention and you will be amazed... With apologies to Jim, but I am always in favour of doing things in the simplest possible way and Launchpad looks more like what I had in mind for a GUI... (Not that I won't use QDT when it is released... I am waiting for it impatiently) If anyone on this list hasn't got QTrans - why not ? - then get it now ! You will soon wonder how you ever managed without it. It comes with a free additional game called decimal Invaders. I have wasted DAYS playing this damn thing, its addictive as hell!! ... oh no !! Oh goody :-) If it's anything like his snake (which I managed to make even harder ;-) my wife is going to lose me for a couple of months again :-) Well I'm glad I read all of this mail before I got to the last two lines(;-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Happy celebrations
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Happy celebrations and here in UK the better English is spoken by some of the Scots and the better English orators comes mostly from the Welsh. Seasonal greetings to all - Bill I notice no mention of Geordie, Bill Well we were talking about the English Language (;-) Our regional dialect owes much to the Vickings, many of our commonly used ( Geordie ) words have scandinavian equivalents, can't recall with accuracy of the top of my head but maybe Gannin ( Going ) and Hyame ( Home ) are two, no doubt someone will confirm or deny. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Weird Q40 Linux Problem
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Weird Q40 Linux Problem Ôçí 18/12/2002 6:36:38 ìì, ï/ç Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: Hi Pheobus, You must be installing Shoestring, it is quite hard to install. I have had a few failures with it. The enter runlevel means that the system does not know which runlevel to use, 3 is a good one. But the installation has failed But I installed it on a Q40 at a Computer show, and it did install first time. There seems to be problems with the type of CDR disk used, maybe it is errors in the writing of the disk, try looking at the checksums of the downloaded disk image. Derek Thanks for the info Derek. I am indeed installing Shoestring. I have searched for older versions to try but they seem to have disappeared from everywhere... I am not sure if Richard is reading this list any more (or ql- developers) but he would be the one to consult. As I said in my original mailing, using the ramimg and then running apps directly from the cdrom works just fine. Maybe again it's my Q40 as it's an initial production run and some things as I have noticed don't go as expected (ie ProWesS that despite all info from other Q40i and Q60 users I yet have to install and run). I used Prowes on it Phoebus, Paragraph worked and Linedesign ( LD in mode 4 to see the menus ) Other things work like a dream. (Turbo, GWASS, c68 and Q-Word do and that's what I am really interested in anyway! Weird thing here is that PQIV DOESN'T run unless used on QDOS Classic ) I am not 100% sure but I think Pqiv worked also, are there not two versions of Qpiv ?? Ah I just remembered you had to put a pause in your boot file and disable CACHE before loading ProWes, don't know if this was fixed in later SMSQE or not Speaking of disks any way to use QubIDE partitions (which are infinitely more reliable than QWA ones) and SMSQ/E ones on the same disk? I've tried to contact Phil Borman, but he doesn't reply from the address he lists on his webpage... My experience with Aurora/ QubIDE was the oposite All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size
- Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size Bill Waugh wrote: I'm formatting Win1 ( qpc.win ) on my C. drive and note that it formats ok upto 2000 ( format win1_2000) but format win1_2500 fails. The small Windows versions (95, 98 etc) can only handle up to 2GB big files. On other versions the limit should be 4GB max as I currently use 32bit addressing. These are per-drive limits, i.e. you can have several 2 GB big WIN partitions. I must confess I've never actually thought about those limits as I only use about 110MB spread on 5 partitions... And of course there's also the DOS device with which you can directly access any photos etc. on the PC drives. Marcel Thanks Marcel, yes 2Gb is probably a bit OTT. As I'm new to QPC the important thing for me was to no that nothing was amiss, your reply confirms this Thanks again Al the best - Bill
[ql-users] QPC hard drives size
I'm formatting Win1 ( qpc.win ) on my C. drive and note that it formats ok upto 2000 ( format win1_2000) but format win1_2500 fails. a qpc.win file of 2000 would more than likely be enough given the compactness of QL application code, but before I settle for a size could someone advise me that all is well or am I doing something wrong. Also am I right in thinking that XXX.win files expand if need be or is my imagination in charge again. QPC - latest version Arnold Clarke wrote: I am having a problem with Menu_rext 7.60 because it crashes QPC .I can still use Menu.rext 7.03 no problem. Can anyone help?. Roy I tried Menu_rext that you sent me ( 7.60 ) and QD and Qspread locked up when loading files could you mail me the later version so I can eliminated it as the cause. So far I'm quite pleased with QPC although everything is from floppies at the minute, Linedesign needs some attention looks like the top of the display is missing but moving the pointer over it brings down menus and they then work, more investigation needed ( this using high colour though ) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size
- Original Message - From: Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC hard drives size Bill, Do you really want a 2.5Gb WIN partition bearing in mind the value after the device is the size in Mbytes? Have you actually checked you have tht much free space on the hard disk that you are trying to set up the WIN device on? Hi Dave I was using a 2.2 Gb drive on my Q40 and it was plenty, so sort of assumed this would be ok for QPC, I have a 40 Gb drive in the PC and it has almost 30 GB free. I formatted the .win file to 2000 and it has worked, well this is probably more than I really need, thinking about it maybe I need to think out just what I need from QPC, the Q40 had on it a lot of jpeg's from my digi camera ( also on my PC for safety and to be sure to be sure burnt onto a CD, so I think my mind set needs a purge ( render unto Ceaser and all that ). Yes I think I'll sleep on it, tomorrow I'm into wallpaper unfortunately not the screen type but the up a ladder type ( cut and paste though ) (:-) Still wonder if there is any reason for the format failure, maybe a limit to block size or something ? thanks for your reply All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:37 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] WMAN progress ??? 28/11/2002 11:47:26 ??, ?/? François Lanciault [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: It is the 'Many people' that I don't agree with. I think that, by now, MOST Ql users have migrate to SGC speed or faster. Those who still use 68008 Qls do not buy high end programs anyway and are happy with Quill and other pre 1990 programs. I am pretty sure that more than 90% of the potential buyers for QDT are on fast, GD2 ready systems. As for ProWesS not 'looking' good right now, there is no reasons not to enhance it visually; it is open source and already support GD2... As Joachim had told me not so long ago, some things that I would like to see on it are tied to the PE and if this can't get update, short of a major re-write they wouldn't be possible If on the other hand the PE gets its makeover then there wouldn't be a reason not to enhance it further... Before anyone says anything I have PAID for ProWesS and the apps before it was open source so I really like it in order to buy it :-) I didn't just buy it for LineDesign but because the underlying principles are the way of the future for the QL I believe :-) I have nothing against PE/WMan programming. I have written a few programs using it. I just don't understand the lack of interest for ProWesS. Come on people, take the time to try it again on your new QPC/Q40 and realize that is it a fabulous Window Manager. Well on the Q40 (at least mine) I tried to load it and it's impossible to get it to work. It seems that some bugs were re-introduced on SMSQ/E v.2y99 (I just found out) that makes it impossible to work... or maybe it's just my system... I used Paragraph on your Q40 Phoebus and it worked, although I was not to sure how many of Paragraph features were still not implimented but Linedesign had problems, invisable menu's that worked if you could remeber what was in them were interesting, some incompatabilities with GD2 do doubt. All the best - Bill ( QLing again soon )
Re: [ql-users] ALT-ENTER
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: [ql-users] ALT-ENTER Hi all, I wonder if anyone has had problems with ALT-ENTER on the Q40... Mine doesn't work at all... anyone has any ideas? Can't recall it not working before Phoebus, my only problem was mixing it up with ALT - SPACE occasionally, mind you oft times I took it down to our sub-group meetings and it would not work at all with any old keyboard, I used it with the keyboard I got from Di-Ren to work with thier interface for QL's, the keyboard was made by Chicory, used to have take the keybaord as well and this in a computer shop. Also anybody knows if CueShell works with SMSQ/E 2y99? I'm sure it worked with 2.98 Phoebus
Re: [ql-users] One box or two
- Original Message - From: Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] One box or two Hi Bill, Why not have both boxes ?? I have both a Q60 and QPC2 v3 (recently updated at the London Show), which just does to show you can have both systems running. OK, I am part of the firm making the Q60, but I do not see why, I can not support all the software writers and other hardware manufacturers, as you see I like the QL in what ever shape or form it takes. Derek Yes I think I'm going that way, QPC first though ( cause my Christmas card list is a _dbf file and this year I mean to do it before the final posting date) Q60 in the spring methinks. BTW Roy I found a Celeron 1.7 gig that works on socket 370. gotta confirm my board will drive it at that speed though( boy dig this PC talk, you could be forgiven for thinking I know what I'm talking about) Enough of this blasphemy All the best - Bill
[ql-users] One box or two
Hi all I would appreciate some help ( with out starting a QPC/Qxx discuss ) Having sold my Q40 to help fund a Q60 I now have thoughts about QPC. I know the arguments for and against both and I have QPC2 v3 demo. The unknown ( to me ) factor is speed, sure the Q60/80 is advertised as 160 bogomips but I would be purchasing a Q60/60. So would some kind soul's furnish me with the following if possible 1. speed of Q60/60 in bogomips 2. speed of QPC2 v3 on a 1.8 gh celeron based PC in bogomips I'm quite aware that benchmarks are not the be all and end all, but they are a factor to consider along with others, I have spare cash at the moment to purchase a Q60 but it could be used on other projects, oooh decisions decisions. I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure, All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Mouse on the Q40
- Original Message - From: Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:37 AM Subject: [ql-users] Mouse on the Q40 Hi all, I've set up Q40 (finally after a full day of drilling cutting etc my case) but I have a problem with the mouse. I am using a MS compatible 3 button serial/PS/2 mouse (worked great with superHermes and the regular QL using Sermouse) but isn't recognized by SMSQ/E... is there anythin I need to run? (I tried sermouse but it doesn't work with that either...) Phoebus try the old type (not PS2) Phoebus, it worked with a three button mouse just fine ( never used the middle button though ). I think it uses sermouse incorporated in SMSQE ( I could be wrong here ) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst? On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 at 01:28:45, P Witte wrote: (ref: 012601c285fd$2d6ddcf0$0100a8c0@gamma) The simple and stark message, that incidentally also applies to a certain other beleaguered minority interest group in the painful process of publicly ripping itself apart, must be: Unite or Die ;) I object to being linked to the UK Tory party (8-)# I would have thought a property magnate ( sheds ) with access to the ear of Radio 4 would have been a natural (;-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] QL Calendar for 2003
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] QL Calendar for 2003 What sort - naked QLs all over the place - with their 'bits' hanging out :o) Uh won't you need a license to distribute it ? I nominate Wofgang - he he (wicked stirring motion of hand) All the best - bill
Re: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] What the QL is really all about Insert warm rosy glow here ! Well done Tony. Just what I said at the start of the current discourse? C'mon guys it's a hobby and a hobby that includes some nice people, .. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Development
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:22 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Development Hey Darren, don't forget us Scots - we like them, too !!! Regards, norman. we like them too scuse me, scuse me, neither the Welsh or I Irish turn them into haggis (;-) Only joking I love a good haggis unfortunately there are a lot of poor one's ( plastic skin, grizzle and spice ) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst? Hi all, I just wanted to point out something to the general QL world at large: as you all know, SMSQ/E is being made available publicly, under a licence that was discussed at length here. This licence is now the current licence for all versions of SMSQ/E. Under this licence, only appointed resellers may sell the software, provided, notably, that a 10 euro payment is made to Tony Tebby for each copy sold. Today, DD systems are selling the Q40/Q60. These are machines that contain SMSQ/E in ROM (they cannot boot otherwise). DD have NOT even requested to become a software reseller. They are NOT paying the licence fees. This means that these people are currently selling something for which they have no licence and which they do not have the right to distribute - in other words, counterfeit software. Doesn't this mean that they are software pirates? Even worse, this means that YOU, when you are buying this machine with this software, are also using counterfeit software, and by extension, when using the Q40/Q60, you are also a software pirate. Do you really want to be? Wolfgang I suspect that many of probable Q40i/Q60 purchasers are already owners of SMSQE for one of the various platforms, If I go ahead and purchase a Q60 as an upgrade from Q40 I already own SMSQE for that machine, I also use SMSQE for Aurora and SuperGold Card how many times do you want me to buy it. Considering that the original purchase promised features that have taken years to include and some still not included isn't it time to give a little to user such as I who have parted with money on trust for so many years. C'mon guys it's a hobby and a hobby that includes some nice people, some very clever people, some understanding traders and some very patient users and no pirates that I recall. There are not enough of us left that we should start an us and them war. all the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 at 08:57:21, wrote: (ref: 3DC63671.8337.69C9FB@localhost) On 25 Oct 2002, at 23:58, Tony Firshman wrote: How about someone being appointed as a name server. Anyone adding to QDOS/SMSQ for general release should register the name with one person. Well, François van Emelem is IT!!! Great. What is his email? I don't seem to have him on the Ql emailshot list - at least no 'emelem' Would that be the famous QL rapper then All the best - Bill -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
Re: [ql-users] A funny thing...
- Original Message - From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] A funny thing... On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: Graphics by Sinclair QL and SMSQ. Highly original, I know, but . I've at best come up with: Computers .. Sinclair Research Ltd Additional hardware .. Miracle Systems Zeljko Nastasic Displays kindly furnished by.. ADI Operating System .. Tony Tebby Programming Dave Park My but how we have progressed, original QL might have the suggested text of allow twenty eight days for credits (:-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] e-mail plain protocols [was Parcelfarce]
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] e-mail plain protocols [was Parcelfarce] to messagesin the format they were sent On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 at 22:46:34, John G Hitchcock wrote: (ref: 007001c2666f$7c0fabc0$dc169fd4@johns) In I/E v 6.00 tools options send tab select: include message in reply - Note: In I/E 6: There does not *seem* to be the offer of the - '' etc as a prefix but a standardisation on ':' Interesting - I have _never_ seen ':' until now. As I stated in a reply '' ':' and '|' are available. I noted that I also had the 'reply to messages in the fromat they were sent ' ticked, this overrides any plain text settings if replying to html mails, I'm not sure this could have any bearings on my mail to Tony and Norman as I assume they replied in plain text. the URL that I pasted in to the original reply to Tony would not constitute a html mail on return surely. Could someone tell me if my mails are ok now please (:-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Geoff Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce - Original Message - From: Laurence Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder. I can't be bothered to check, but does LookOut offer a similar function - replace '' with neat, continous nothing. My experience with Outlook Express is that it is inconsistent. Even if you set it to indent with it doesn't always do this. I have never discovered why or what circumstances, but then I have never bothered to investigate. Just a thought though. Could there be a difference if the original message was text only or HTML? I wondered about that so I have unticked he box that allows the plain text setting to be overidden when replying to html By the way, how come you are getting away with this OT thread without anyone complaining ;-). SSSHHH my apologies, it was my mail that set it off. All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Laurence Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce Tony Firshman wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 at 09:23:47, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sorry guys, I may have led you up the garden path. When I mentioned 'quotes' I was referring to 'quoting of previous text to which I am now replying' - basically, what has been said before. I was not referring to quote marks ( or ') in Bill's text - as far as I know, these are fine. When Bill replies to an email, the whole reply has no '' indents/quotes before the lines in the original message to which Bill is replying. The example below, shows my original text indented/quoted by '' at the start of the line. In this case, Bill's reply has come through correctly - no misunderstanding of who said what. However, in a number of his previous replies, there were no indent/quotes - whcih made it difficult to follw what was original text and what was Bill's reply. Yep - that is what I find exactly. Bill is still pretty unsure as to what is happening. I am pretty sure he must be sending it without indents () but I don't think he is convinced. I cannot see how _any_ mailer can strip off '' - it just doesn't seem logical. Erm... I use Mozilla these days. It strips off the '' marks... ... and replaces them with neat, continuous vertical bars. I wonder. I can't be bothered to check, but does LookOut offer a similar function - replace '' with neat, continous nothing. Yes The choice is ''':' or '|' or you can untick the box and get nowt. my setting is '' and my box is firmly ticked - ( did I really say that ) BTW how is this mail Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 at 09:21:03, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) did you know that your 'quote' character(s) are not coming through in your replies - this makes it a bit difficult to find your stuff in amongst my dross :o) Ahha - I have had long 'chat' with Bill about this and he says I am the only one who complains, so it must be Turnpike (8-)# I think I suggested an incompatability betwixt OE and Turnpike and did not aportion blame I have been unable to convince him that he is SENDING the emails wrongly formatted. when I send them they are correctly formatted, if you recieve them wrongly formmated then when you send them back they reformat correctly before I recieve them, or are you suggesting that OE sends them wrong and then when it recieve replies corrects them before it displays them. I agree - it makes his emails very difficult to understand. Norman was speaking of Quote marks he did'nt mention indenting He is using Lookout Express - anyone tell him how to get it to send correctly? I bet it cannot and the '' has to be done manually with the consequent autowrap problems (8-(# No - see my other mail to Norman I've mailed the other two lists I'm on asking for verification that my mails are not indented properly. I receive all my mails to (QL-user) back and they are ok. We need to ascertain what we both mean by 'Indented and 'formatted' I am assuming you mean the placing of an against text, one for every level of reply Al the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Parcelfarce Sorry Tony, but I really must object !! You said : Well I just knew that Outback would not handle anything like that, whatever format it is in (8-)# I'm afraid that sullying the good name of the Australian Countryside is not acceptable - especially whan using it as a derogatory term in relation to a microsoft product (in as much as Microsoft have ever produced a product of their own). :o) Cheers, Norman. PS. On a serious note, re parcelfarce, have you seen the ads on the telly for the Royal Mail express delivery thingy where for £3.25 they come and pick up your parcel and guarantee next day delivery ? I presume that there are a number of catches of course - being the cynic that I am, but you never know .. No catches, just the destination postcade has to be identical to yours(;-) PPS. Does Prince Charles count as a Royal Male ? Ah you refer to his letter sending, wonder what goes through his mind as he licks the back of the stamp (;-) Oops cynical and irreverent All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 at 23:33:05, Bill Waugh wrote: (ref: 000c01c26351$30261c60$23d27ad5@famwaugh) - Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: [ql-users] Parcelfarce Anyone got a URL for UK standard parcel prices. I see they have disappeared from the 'Guide to services' I got recently, and I threw away my old list. I cannot find any info on their web site. I need to post a repaired QL - but it seems Parcelfarce no longer recognise standard parcels. Quite amazing and hostile - no wonder they are a failing company. I hope I am wrong, and that the cheapest rate for a standard parcel of any weight up to 8kg is not £11.85 for 'Parcelforce 48'. If true it will mean a charge of £35 for a QL repair - effectively killing off the service. http://www.consignia-online.com/portal/default/all/home;jsessionid=3QHYJJAD J WTHOCRAZRLENZQKEDGFOQ2K?paf_gear_id=13paf_gm=contentpaf_dm=fullnull _ requestid=314629 Try this Tony That got totally zapped by line breaks. I had to extract to a text editor and remake it. There are two ways of getting this through URL:someurl someurl You have not been following the thread on ql-chat (8-)# Where exactly on that site did you find standard UK prices? The cheapest I could find there (as I said above) was Parcelfarce48 for £11.85 I reckon something has gone wrong when Consignia site took over parcelforce.com (I have to speel it right there (8-)# ) Tony I tried it direct from Outlook Express, took me right there , clicked on services and got a list that includes postal service's, there is also a post charge calculator, I think what you want is in there, sorry got to go to work now I'll try it in more detail tonight ( shouldn't cost anywhere near £11.85 I,ve posted heavy stuff for less) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: [ql-users] Parcelfarce Anyone got a URL for UK standard parcel prices. I see they have disappeared from the 'Guide to services' I got recently, and I threw away my old list. I cannot find any info on their web site. I need to post a repaired QL - but it seems Parcelfarce no longer recognise standard parcels. Quite amazing and hostile - no wonder they are a failing company. I hope I am wrong, and that the cheapest rate for a standard parcel of any weight up to 8kg is not £11.85 for 'Parcelforce 48'. If true it will mean a charge of £35 for a QL repair - effectively killing off the service. http://www.consignia-online.com/portal/default/all/home;jsessionid=3QHYJJADJ WTHOCRAZRLENZQKEDGFOQ2K?paf_gear_id=13paf_gm=contentpaf_dm=fullnull_ requestid=314629 Try this Tony All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] FastFind
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:14 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] FastFind On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 at 23:22:38, P Witte wrote: (ref: 00bb01c210cd$94475c80$0100a8c0@gamma) Tony Firshman writes, Thanks for all that, Tony. Im sure splashing this sort of Sorry Per - I wasn't trying to warn people off - just help you (8-)# And I apologise for snapping at you. Time of the month, I suppose.. BTW for people who have not met Per, he is not a woman (8-)# I'm confused - is he married to Roy Cropper in Coranation Street then Why is it that the QL attracts a pretty 100% male following? 100 % pretty males, now I'm really confused, most of the QL users I've met could not be described as pretty (;-) ( No offence intended Per,Tony) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E licence registrar
- Original Message - From: Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E licence registrar Joachim Van der Auwera makes some magical things to make me read } } I think there is a major problem with the current licence. } What would happen if the registrar stops doing his or her work. } Then you ask TT to appoint a new one. } } Ok, what if TT can not be reached or found (or worse) ? Or he has no time or } does not know anybody ft for the job... } What if the amount of code added is such that he is a co-author, and not the } main author? } } How can you expect people to write free code which may be impossible to } dictribute if this happens? I'm personaly fed up with contract which try to cover everything which has a non-null probablility. Irony on - What if earth is hit by a meteor ? - What if paper is declared carcinogen and forbidden everywhere ? - What if the sun burst ? - What if the Internet is shutdown to protect the Democraties ? - What if nuclear apocalypse happens ? (Oops, India and Pakistan are already at work...) - What if coding become an outlaw action ? - What if I get sick on Monday and well by Saturday ? - What if time-travel become possible ? - What if french team wins the football cup (not this year, not a chance!) ? - What if it's raining at my place but it's sunny for the registar ? - What if life is discovered near a far remote star, does the licence also apply to them too ? - What if I go to mars ? or just to the moon ? - What if I just die three days after a purchase ? Would I get my money back ? - What if I die and then get reanimated ? - What if all the new processors use base 5 instead of binary ? - What if I eat a cookie without drinking milk ? - What if I lace my shoes in the opposite sens ? - What if I can walk also on my hands ? What if Jerome wrote adverts for Honda (;-) All the best - Bill
Re: [ql-users] Camera
- Original Message - From: dndsystems1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL-Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [ql-users] Camera Everyone, We are looking for a digital camera to recommend for use with the Q60. Would anyone like to offer their opinion of all suitable cameras. Ideally, a serial connection and compact flash would be the best combination. Does the Kodak 'Docking Station' come with a serial option for all its cameras or is this only available to some of its camera range? Dennis - DD Systems My Kodak DC215 came complete with serial cable and works fine on Q40 with Simons Digibas programme , also comes with cable to plug into a tele, but best way to go is one of Phoebus's IDE CF readers they just fit into a floppy slot and connect to a spare IDE then read like a hard drive and are very fast. Confession - I have one in my PC and a second one that hasn't quite got into my Q40 yet but IIRC somebody has tried them in a Q40/60 with success. All the best - Bill
