[ql-users] Testing new email - please ignore
It's only me - getting sorted aout at home. Cheers, Norman.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady ?
Hi Bill, I got mine yesterday ! Cheers, Norman. PS. Where I come from, Northumbria is the far south !!! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Show management - quantity and quality (going on to QWord)
Morning Dilwyn, (ok, afternoon, but I slept late today !) >> You can only have 32 info windows. Some of the menus in Launchpad >> suffer because of this, I was using narrow windows as shadows and >> boxes and kept running out of info windows, so gave up on most of >> them. Bbeen there and got shafted by the software when I tried to create a 3D look for that old calculator program of yours, many many many years ago. (I was still in my house on Newmachar near Aberdeen at the time). If I remember correctly, 32 is the maximum limit on info windows because the IWs are numbers in one of the calls in the PE code, by BIT number in a 32 bit register. I can't remember the call itself, but it's the one that redraws a number of IWs and passes a Data register holding a bit set for each window that has to be redrawn. I think it unlikely (!) that an upgrade to the EasyPtr stuff will make that problem go away as it is a problem in the underlying code in the PE/WMAN drivers. Now, I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong . :o) Cheers, Norman. (Counting down until Friday .....) ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] [OT] Norman Dunbar
Yes - that one is fine, the bountiful solutions co uk address is redirected to bountiful demon co uk. Thanks. Cheers, norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] [OT] Norman Dunbar On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 at 10:58:49, Norman Dunbar wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >Just a little bit off topic, but as of Friday 15th August I will no longer >be receiving emails from this list at this email address - I'm leaving work >on Friday never to return :o( Not in the slightest OFT. I wish everyone would announce email address changes - and here is a very appropriate place. > >The email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will no longer be valid and should >not be used after Friday. > >I will (hopefully) be transferring my subscription to my home email, which >for those of you who have me in their address books is : > > Norman at BountifulSolutions dot co dot uk (you know how to piece >that lot together) I have the demon bountiful address for the QL mailing. Is that OK? -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@.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 This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] QL Toady ?
Has the latest version gone out to the Postie in the UK yet ? Just wondering because Marcel read my article last week and I'm getting 'withdrawal' symptoms as I have nothing to read :o) Cheers, Norman (2 days and counting !) --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards
Marcel wrote : >> I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of >> the cable is not terminated when there's no drive attached you get >> noise on the data lines due to reflections at the unused cable end. Neither am I (as you probably all know) but how on earth can 'electricity' get reflections from the end of a cable ? I mean, it should just leak out the cut end shouldn't it ? :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady ?
Ah well, I live in what is laughingly called 'The North' - the Postie must take longer to get here ! Thanks. Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Toady ? >> I got mine two days ago. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory
Holy Smoke Batman ! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Bill Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards
Hi Jerome, >> No, it never leak! That bit was a joke - honest ! >> The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the line, >> it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate back, >> crossing the new incoming signal... This is what confuses my simple brain, in order for a reflection there should be 'something' at the end to reflect back off of. If there is nothing to reflect from then there shouldn't be a reflection. Using your harbour analogy, there is a harbour wall to reflect back off whereas in an unterminated cable, there is nothing. (Did I mention that I wasn't all that good with hardware ?) >> Single wire are not so nice, hence the need to correctly terminate the line >> with device or a resistor. So how does having a resistor stop reflections then - and how do you pick a correct value, Tony mentioned 330R what's so special aboput that value ? (My knowlege here extents to V=IR). Cheers, Norman. (The Hardwrae Idiot !) - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards
Thank you - the muddy waters are much clearer now. Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QWord
Hi Geoff, >> The second is a tribute to George Gwilt. Seconded - George is a fount of knowlege for many things - he has helped me out quite a lot with my arcticles on Assembly Language programming. >> George is maintaining and revising Turbo, but no one is doing this for QLiberator so the continuing compatibility of the latter is not guaranteed. I could be wrong here, but the reason that somoene is maintaining Turbo is quite simple, the source code was made available. I beleieve that the source for Qliberator has not been made available and so no-one other than the original author(s) can do any work on it. (Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong here !) Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] [OT] Norman Dunbar
Just a little bit off topic, but as of Friday 15th August I will no longer be receiving emails from this list at this email address - I'm leaving work on Friday never to return :o( The email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will no longer be valid and should not be used after Friday. I will (hopefully) be transferring my subscription to my home email, which for those of you who have me in their address books is : Norman at BountifulSolutions dot co dot uk (you know how to piece that lot together) This means I woun't be responding to queries etc with my usual rapidity :o) Tony, Jochen : Can you please update your address books to ensure that my LFS address is no longer used - thanks. Kind regards, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards
That was s similar to my old Physics lessons - all that water flowing round circuits. There was a great deal of RELUCTANCE on my part in those days :o) Sorry, couldn't resist. (oops - there I go again). Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards Water is a very good analogy for explaining simple electrical circuits. Very good for youngsters. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Show management - quantity and quality (going on to QWord)
>> EasyPTR remains the main sticking point and unfortunately, I have not found the time (mainly due to my continued ill health) >> to look at the sources for this and try to work out what is needed to adapt this excellent utility to working with 65536 >> colours and the new WMAN. Unfortunately, none of the others who expressed an interest in working on this project >> have been in touch (hint hint) so is there anyone else willing/able to take up the gauntlet along with me?? Ok, I'll take a chance on this ! Caveats : I am not a very good, read 'pretty cr4p' :o), PE programmer in Assembly language - seeing as how I've always used the EasyPtr system and SuperBasic ! I didn't express an interst for this very reason. I cannot guarantee to be able to do anything with it - buit I can have a look and see what I can do So, if you are ok with the above, let me know what to do. Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Geoff's departure
Morning Dave, Angles Angles are (one of) the ancestors of the English. (Any continental with nothing to do at the weekend invaded !) I'm a Celt myself - from the North. Don't make that mistake if you ever visit Scotland :o) Cheers, Norman. PS. If I remember correctly, I was coming from the West anyway - I'd been to Bonddi - There was a sign saying "Tal-y-Bont" and pointing down a road, so we went there hoping for a nice cuppa chez Dilwyn & Christine - no other signs anywhere and we ended up back on the main road again. PPS. Ok, coming down that little road we were coming from the East ! --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] New uQLx-win32 distro availble
Morning Phoebus, >> Eventually I will have to port it natively to windows :-) Funny you should mention that - I looked at the sources and thought about it. Not for long I hasten to add - I can't remember how to write 'proper' Windows code mowadays since I've been using Delphi and C++ Builder. Good Luck ! Cheers, Norm. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] New uQLx-win32 distro availble
Try WinRAR - from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] New uQLx-win32 distro availble In a message dated 04/08/2003 13:19:37 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New uQLx-win32 distribution is available. Changed since the previous distribution 1. Added Copyright messages for JS and Minerva Roms 2. Recompiled under new CygWin 3. Corrected some problems with XWin 4. Included instructions for recompilation under Windows XP 5. Repackaged as RAR archives... (Zip was to big, Tar.bz2 too difficult for many WIndows users to unpack) Also the website is now available in English, French and Greek (other languages welcome!) Find the new uQLX-win32 at: <http://www.dokos-gr.net/ql/uqlx.html> Thanks - downloaded - however, need to find a program to decompress RAR files now - maybe you should include a link on your website to this -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftware This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL2004
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Warehouse warehouse? A bit like New York Tony - so good they named it >> twice? :-)) Wasn't it New Amsterdam first then ? >> What about all those people who are quite active on this list yet haven't >> been to a show in ages? (I'm not looking at you Norman...:-))) Am I so ugly then that nobody wants to look at me ? :o) >> really...though, Come on, will you come this once? Ahhh, go on What is >> it that keeps you guys away? 1) Being married to a woman who has *no* interest in computers at all and wouldn't want to go anywhere near a show that has anything to do with the *damned* things ! 2) Only having our weekends together means that it has to be something really important to 'part us from each other' at the weekend. Truthfully, I have attended a couple of shows in the past - one in Chester and the other in Newcastle, when I lived up in Aberdeen, and while they were fun, I didn't come away feeling I had had a really great time. However, this is exactly the case when I attend anything to do with my other interests in life - I just don't get anything out of 'user groups' or 'club' meetinigs etc. Maybe I'm too boring . So there you have it, my sad story. I do admire and respect the traders and regulars who attend these shows regardless of cost and location (worldwide) - you people have my deepest admiration for your dedication to a cause/club/etc - I'm afraid I don't have anything like your dedication. Cheers, Norman. PS. I got Darren's reply before Tony's original email. Oh hum ! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Morning Malcoln, I suspect the QL community will be quite far down the list of 'jobs' that my wife, Alison, has in mind . :o( Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Malcolm Cadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) >> Hopefully the QL community will benefit from more of your programming >> time ... This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Morning malcolm, you said : >> He .. he .. of course you have just left the clock ticking until that >> fateful day when it all goes wrong !! I know that ! You know that ! My colleagues here know that ! But management make the decisions Then they'll know, and I'll have to come back on very very very expensive contract rates :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QPC Resolution
Fraid not Malcolm - my monitor(s) don't go that big ! Cheers, Norm. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Malcolm Lear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] QPC Resolution Hi I don't seem to be able to get QPCII running in 1280x1024 mode. Has anyone else had this problem? Cheers Malcolm This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Hi Dilwyn, >> Now, we know how 'hard' Norman Dunbar works ;-) Not for much longer - I'm being 'got rid of' due to the fact that I've been working very hard to get thing running correctly, automated and scripted. Now that it is all done, I've been told so "s*d off" because "we don't need you now - as it is all just working!". Gratitude eh ? >> I wonder what other "evil" people are on this list!!! (Cue Darren >> Branagh no doubt...) Just remember who suggested Pointer Pranks . :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
-Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) >> >>The drivers leave a lot to be desired though, >> Easy - download and install updated drivers (8-)# Groan ! ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Tony wrote : >> It is mind boggling though when one gets an image of a >> full screen in a non-windowed viewer. It is difficult working what are >> 'real' items to click (8-)# It's also great fun to grab a screen on someone's PC and load it into Paint (or similar) then go to full screen view mode, and watch what happens when they come back from lunch/smoke break/toilet break and try to start work again :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
HI Phoebus, in which case, I stand corrected as to the XP thing - I don't have XP to hand (luckily) so I can't test it out, but I shall take your word for it. As for being a lucky dog, I know ! My wife and I love Greece, the place is fantastic, the people are great, the food and wine is fabulous - and cheap ! The drivers leave a lot to be desired though, as do some of those roads which appear to be wrapped around the sides of very high cliffs, no guard rails and very loose surfaces :o( Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:10:26 +0100, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Configuration QPC v3.11
You may need to click the 'save' button as well ! ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Configuration QPC v3.11 Has anyone else had the problem? Every time I tick the box at the bottom left to avoid the Configuration screen, next time I start up QPC2, the box is unticked. Is this my problem or has anyone else suffered? Regards, Peter Fox This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Hi Phoebus, oh yes it was ! (AKA I beg to differ !) It started (?) in DOS where the print-scn button printed the text on screen to a printer (not sure if it was able to be redirected to a file though) in text mode. In Windows (3.1 anyway) this was changed to copy the screen, or active window to the clipboard as a bit map. Under XP this has been removed - although Tony says that it works if the shift key is held down. Cheers, Norman. PS. Just had two weeks in Crete - very hot 42 degrees (C). - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Phoebus Dokos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:23:07 +0100, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But if you are running XP then the print-scn button no longer works - > microsoft don't want any DOS backwards compatability in XP ! Not true. the screen capture feature was never a dos trick :-) Phoebus -- Phoebus Dokos - Undergrad in MIS Eberly College of Business - Indiana U. of PA This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QPC command line
Brilliant - thanks ! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:35 PM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC command line Norman Dunbar wrote: > If I could get at the QPC command line (hence QPC_CMDLINE$) I could extract > the drive letter from the argv[0] parameter and use that to set my win1_ and > win2_ drives. BTW: You don't need to supply a drive letter for the WIN drives. You can just supply a path relative to the QPC executable. Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] QPC command line
a couple of questions : what does QPC_CMDLINE$ return - I only ever get an empty string. Next, I need to be able to access the argv[0] value (usually the executable name) from QPC v3 because I've got myself a Crucial Gizmo so that I can transport my 'QL@ back and fore between work and home. When plugged in at work, the gizmo is drive E:\ and aty home it is drive F:\. I need to write myself a boot file which will assign the correct QPC_Drive for win1 and win2 regardless of the drive that the gizmo is mounted as. If I could get at the QPC command line (hence QPC_CMDLINE$) I could extract the drive letter from the argv[0] parameter and use that to set my win1_ and win2_ drives. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Norman. PS. I'm about 20 miles away from my manuals !! --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
But if you are running XP then the print-scn button no longer works - microsoft don't want any DOS backwards compatability in XP ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Stephen Meech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) On Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:33 PM , Al Feng wrote: > If you only need a "screen" save, then you can use Snagit32 (WIN > shareware). Or, using standard tools, view the document in Full Screen mode, press and paste into Microsoft Paint and save to JPEG or GIF. Stephen This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT)
Hi Darren, normally I'd say 'no' as there are no options in the 'save as' or 'save as web page' dialogue to save as a gif, bmp etc. However, if you have a modem which came with some fax software which installs as a printer driver AND allows you to 'print' to a file then you might have a chance. If I'm not mistaken, the printer driver for the fax acts like a normal printer and you can (hopefully) save to a file. I've got no idea what graphics format the resulatant output would be, but it would probably be mono and need converting before it could be used. Just a couple of random thoughts ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Converting Word to JPEG or GIF(slightly OT) Hi all, A quick query has raised its head that one/some of you may be able to hel;p me with. Is it possible to convert word.doc (MS Word) to a graphics format, ie. GIF or JPEG? I know this is off topic, but the end result will be used on the QL, hence my asking). I need to be able to produce GIF/JPEG's from a word.doc file as this is the only application I have here in work!! Cheers, Darren Branagh, Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business, Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland. Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this E-mail from your system. Thank you. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of known computer viruses. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.11 & SMSQ&E v3.01
Nice !! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:59 AM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.11 & SMSQ&E v3.01 Norman Dunbar wrote: > Nah, I have Disa V2 and use it quite often - hey, you don't think I > use stuff like QLTDis do you :o) Hehe, DISA is actually one of the best disassemblers I know. For any platform. > I never knew that you had taken it over. Well, I just hate looking at old-style programs now, therefore I've acquired the sources. And while I'm at it I'm trying to implement support for the new PE data structures, too. Otherwise one cannot properly disassemble any new-style programs anymore. Cheers, Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QPC2 v3.11 & SMSQ&E v3.01
Morning Marcel, you wrote : >> Other stuff like a new DISA I'm still working on, though you can >> already see the current built in the screen shot. But it's probably >> just me who uses tools like DISA anyway. Nah, I have Disa V2 and use it quite often - hey, you don't think I use stuff like QLTDis do you :o) I never knew that you had taken it over. I like the way it lets you pre-process a disassembly to identify code, config etc - a brilliant idea when it first came out. I also use Davide's DEA from time to time as well. And IDIS (SE). And QLTDis . I guess I'm just a disassembler fanatic !! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] reader question
Dilwyn jested : >> The USB pocket drives like those would be great for someone like >> Norman who does most of his QLing in his lunchbreak in work, that way >> he would never lose/corrupt his zip disks again and he could take his >> work to and from home on his keyring! As you say, a 64MB QXL.WIN on a >> keyring! Now there's an idea. Because my new PC at work underwent surgery just yesterday to fit the Zip drive back in. Guess waht, no suitbale slot to plug the damned SCSI interface card into. Seems that the newest PCs don't have an ISA slot at all !! I've got USB on this box and USB at home, so I should (!) be able to get something running - if only I had a keyriong thingy ! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] funny but true.....(OT)
I got through to it today - they seem to be a bettery manufacturer in Italy. Cheers, Norman. -Norman DunbarDatabase/Unix administratorLynx Financial Systems Ltd.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: 0113 289 6265Fax: 0113 289 3146URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com- -Original Message-From: TonyTebby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:39 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ql-users] funny but true.(OT) Colin Parsons wrote Try it without a comma, and it works, http://www.powergenitalia.com/ From still active Italian page!! It must have been cached - I've tried several times over 24 hours and the server is unreachable Tony TebbyThis email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] funny but true.....(OT)
Ok, I stand corrected. A bleeding comma where a full-stop should have been makes *all* the difference. Thanks. :o) Norman. -Norman DunbarDatabase/Unix administratorLynx Financial Systems Ltd.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: 0113 289 6265Fax: 0113 289 3146URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com- -Original Message-From: Colin Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ql-users] funny but true.(OT) Try it without a comma, and it works, http://www.powergenitalia.com/ From still active Italian page!!This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] 2 questions
Hi Phil, I think we may have passed in the post ! Cheers, Norman -Norman DunbarDatabase/Unix administratorLynx Financial Systems Ltd.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: 0113 289 6265Fax: 0113 289 3146URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com- -Original Message-From: Phil Kett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:51 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ql-users] 2 questions I think the rc files under linux are more configuration files for programs. The 'rc' does indeed stand for resource but the contents of the file are similar to a .ini file under windows (not necessarilly in format but in purpose).For example the .bashrc file is used by the bash shell to set up things like the default path, various environment variables and the prompt. It can also be used to define command aliases. Bash reads this file when it starts so that it is always set up the same way.PhilThis email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
Nice one !! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size Norman Dunbar wrote: > Squirreled ? or Gophered? This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] 2 questions
Sorry Dilwyn, *.rc could also be a script or ini file read in by some Linux application which defines various options etc that the user has selected for their preferences. In the qascade_rc example you gave, this file probably holds your Quascade menu definitions. Try reading in it a text editor and see :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] 2 questions
Hi Dilwyn, RFC = Request For Comment = a 'standard' for something or other. Say FTP is RFC 12345 (it's not !) then you can go onto the web somewhere and find said RFC document and read it. Byt the end of said document, you will know exactly what FTP is supposed to do. You might not understand it however . *.rc = Possibly a rescource script for a program. If I'm not mistaken, came from Windows and you created a text file describing a dialogue or menu which was input to a resource compiler and the output was then bound to the compiled executable. I think the .rc was the source code for the resource. HTH Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:05 PM To: QL Users List Subject: [ql-users] 2 questions A couple of questions for the more Linux-minded members of this list, to help me with a QL conversion: 1. What is an RFC? 2. What exactly is an _rc file (presumably like qascade_rc, the runtime control file or something like that?) Just a brief explanation and what the letters stand for, please! -- Dilwyn Jones This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] funny but true.....(OT)
Fraid not :o) http://powergenitalia.com or http://www,powergenitalia.com with or without further '.it' suffixes. I'm afraid it looks like a fictional set up. Still, nice thought ! Cheers, Norman. -Norman DunbarDatabase/Unix administratorLynx Financial Systems Ltd.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: 0113 289 6265Fax: 0113 289 3146URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com- -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:58 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ql-users] funny but true.(OT)In a message dated 25/06/2003 15:35:36 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can't check if this is a fact or not as I don't have web access here inwork at the moment, but it sounds good!!Darren.The power/electricity company Powergen has launched in Italy,which is all very well until you realise they have the unfortunate websiteaddress ofwww.powergenitalia.com/How the hell didn't someone spot that??The site exists - though does not seem to be the Powergen company which we know and love The site is on about battery chargers for fork lift trucks (in some awful English - so maybe that's how they didn't spot the name - cos they can't understand much English).LOL !!--Rich Mellor RWAP Services35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JHTEL: 01977 610509http://hometown.aol.co.uk/rwapsoftwareThis email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
Squirreled ? - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 8:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size > >> How about a puzzle thread on here? > >> Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref) > > We don't all speak Welsh you know :o) You'd have a hope. As W and Y are vowels in Welsh, you can't even use them to make your monosyllables longer! Now where did I put Goeff's Solvit Plus... -- Dilwyn Jones This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] EPROM Images
Thanks Marcel,
I have taken all my QL boks home from work now - I'm being made re-dun-dant
soon - so I was typing off the top of my head. I did have C000 originally,
then I figured it should have an extra zero. Should have stayed with my
first guess !
Cheers,
Norman.
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-Original Message-
From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:07 PM
To: ql-users
Subject: Re: [ql-users] EPROM Images
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> SBYTES flp1_eprom_bin, hex('C'), Size_of_eprom
On 0 too much. If I'm not very much mistaken the ROM slot is at C000.
C was the start address for expansion cards.
> You could be right there !! Mind you - have to dig out my
> microdrives, so I can still do it without using the Trump Card !!
> I wonder - are all QL EPROMs 16K in size??
For the ROM slot? IIRC it only has 16 address lines, i.e. yes, it can
only have 16kb.
Marcel
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RE: [ql-users] EPROM Images
I'm pretty sure the plug in to the back of the QL ones are 16K in
size.
Cheers,
Norm.
-Norman
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:54
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ql-users] EPROM
ImagesIn a message dated 23/06/2003 15:39:04 GMT Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't you just plug
it in then : SBYTES flp1_eprom_bin, hex('C'), Size_of_eprom ?? Cheers,Norman. PS. Usual failing memory disclaimer applies ! You could be right there !! Mind you - have to dig
out my microdrives, so I can still do it without using the Trump Card !!I
wonder - are all QL EPROMs 16K in size??--Rich Mellor RWAP
Services35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9
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RE: [ql-users] EPROM Images
Don't you just plug it in then :
SBYTES flp1_eprom_bin, hex('C'), Size_of_eprom
??
Cheers,
Norman.
PS. Usual failing memory disclaimer applies !
-Norman
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-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:36
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ql-users] EPROM
ImagesCan anyone just quickly remind me - how do you get a
true image of an EPROM cartridge on the standard QL, so that it can be blown to
update an earlier version of the EPROM??Thanks--Rich
Mellor RWAP Services35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West
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RE: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
History indeed ! I used to use the 8K space between 8192 and 16384 as storage space. It was a ROM shadow area, but never gave me any problems. I even managed to run machine code programs from there as well. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:50 PM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size Norman Dunbar wrote: > In my day it was a ZX-81 with 1KB of memory - every byte counted then !! Despite my age this is where I started, too. But that's just history now. Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
In my day it was a ZX-81 with 1KB of memory - every byte counted then !! :o) - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] efficient buffer size
-Original Message- From: Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] efficient buffer size >> How about a puzzle thread on here? >> Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref) We don't all speak Welsh you know :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Bunsen Banging (WAS is minus one = -1?)
I've just noticed, but isn't 'breathed out' air still high in oxygen and only about 4% CO2 ? As in my old BSAC diving exam questions : Going in Nitrogen 79% ish Oxygen 20% ish Rare Gasses 1% ish Coming out ... Nitrogen 79% ish Oxygen 16% ish Rare Gasses 4% ish Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: John Hitchcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Bunsen Banging (WAS is minus one = -1?) Re; Tony, et-al's - Hi Roy, > >>> 90% of the time, when you do this, it is OK - on the odd occasion though >>> the mixture of Air to gas is just right to explode in the bunsen burner. CO2 mainly - so no explosion. All it did was make the teachers demo burner go out. Some classes connected to water --- The water was **my** style. Problem was an accomplice - already secreted in the cupboard under trhe bench - was needed for the trick. Spend two marbles/ lend Hank Jansen/ promise a date with your sister- or the like. METHOD (To be neatly written up in chemistry 'best' book) 1. Connect a bench-water to an adjacent bench gas-tap. 2. Turn off all bunsens. 3. Sit, with attentive forward look, on the bench in front of step-1 connection. 4. Wait until Dicky-Stink (!) was ready with his demo - on the front bench. 5. 3 smart 'just swingin' your leg' heel-kicks to the under-bench door. 6. [The skilful bit - took practice] With hands behind your back, turn on the Step-1 above, water and gas taps. 7. Enjoy the enormous roof-reaching fountain that followed a spluttering front-tbench burner. 8. Do detention (again!) Note: The method never appeared on exam paper - as far as I know. Pity! This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Fatuous emails
They've been removed from my copy !!! - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Jerome Grimbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fatuous emails Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read } Roy, } } >> Maybe you could write a program to delete female junk from bathrooms - } >> along the lines of that Linux game where you have to destroy the PCs } >> while Bill Gates is sneaking in and installing them - Dilwyn should be } >> good at that. } } In the Linux game, you at least have a chance of winning. In the 'womanly } junk' game, you have no chance whatsoever ! } There is two cheat-code for that game... the first is "I have too much works here to go with you, but here is your ticket for a two-weeks holiday at bora-bora/..." The second is "Divorce" and is permanent. Both are expensive! This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Fatuous emails
Roy, >> Maybe you could write a program to delete female junk from bathrooms - >> along the lines of that Linux game where you have to destroy the PCs >> while Bill Gates is sneaking in and installing them - Dilwyn should be >> good at that. In the Linux game, you at least have a chance of winning. In the 'womanly junk' game, you have no chance whatsoever ! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] Jochen and QL Toady
Morning all, Just read Jochen's write up in the latest QL Toady. Just a quick work to Jochen : Jochen, I'm afraid I have to say this bluntly, but if you think that getting a magazine out on time is more important that your own health, then you need serious help. For goodness sake, if the magazine is late then so be it. There are priorities in life and a bi-monthly good read is far down the list of priorities. Now, having said that, I hope everything is going well now. Next up, the magazine - whatever happened to Volume 8 Issue 1 :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
Hi Roy, >> 90% of the time, when you do this, it is OK - on the odd occasion though >> the mixture of Air to gas is just right to explode in the bunsen burner. I was wondering what the effects would be - thanks ! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
I have a horrible mental picture of Dilwyn up a ladder in his shreddies - I think we need soome artist to draw it up for the next QL-Toady cartoon ! Talking of Toadies, my froglets have just grown their legs, lost their tails and are now all over the garden. This makes cutting the grass a tad difficult - I'll just have to leave it until autumn then :o) Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1? I also remeber when he was standing on a stepladder getting bits from the attic hatch, he reached up to grab a box, taking a deep breath as he did - and his trousers ended up around his ankles!! Chris and me fell about the place laughing.. all you could see was big legs and y-fronts!! This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Fatuous emails
Ahh, I remember those days - I was in my first flat at the time ! The problems I have nowadays is old age - I can't listen and type at the same time - I get distracted too easily by what's happening on screen and forget to listen. Actually, having just corrected all (?) the spelling mistakes in what I originally types, I suspect that I can't type when I'm not listening either Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] Fatuous emails Anyway, before we were all on email and before this list began, back in the days of DJC, Norman and I used to have long telephone conversations and discussed all sorts of things, usually while one or both of us was programming at the same time! -- Dilwyn Jones This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Re: tricks
I think I still have those 'Pointer Pranks' somewhere .. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
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 ? Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1? . my beloved second wife decided to purge some of my past life junk. This included some of the less useful calculaters, some broke, some given away, some got flat batteries (including unfortunately the great little Casio with clever calculator games on it) etc etc. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
Blow into the gas pipe ? Our gas pipes were always better at blowing than we were ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1? The best trick is to blow into the gas pipe in chemistry labs. This causes havoc with the teacher's demo (8-)# This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
Hi Dilwyn, >> Last time Floating Point Theory came up in my case was a few years ago >> when my son threw one of my (at the time numerous) calculators down a >> toilet...Point was it didn't Float ;-) is this the reason why you no longer have numerous calculators then ? Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
Morning Bill, you said : >> did'nt understand a word of this thread I'm glad is wasn't just me then. I've never got to grips with all that floating point malarky - even when we were 'taught' it in school. I wonder if there is a web site, or a download somewhere out there (I've not come across any 'easy' ones) for duffers like me to get a grip on how all the FP stuff hangs together, how it can be used in counting, etc etc. We need "The Idiot's Guide to Floating Point Number Theory" I think ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] News
No worries then. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] News Norman writes: > I'm puzzled - why did it become an embarrasment then ? I dont particularly want to advertise the sorry details, if you dont mind ;) > It worked for me !! Im happy to hear it. Per This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] News
Hi Per, I'm puzzled - why did it become an embarrasment then ? It worked for me !! Cheers, Norman. PS. I've got no time for meditation I'm afraid :o) --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] News >> Ah yes. Good old user no. #3 of 4, I seem to recall. To tell you the >> truth, it became an embarrassment and so was withdrawn for the benfit of the >> ql-ing public and my own reputation. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] News
Morning Per, you wrote : >> Due to my present job I get far too little time to do much development >> myself. I know exactly what you mean. I'm finiding it difficult to fit in *any* QDOSMSQ work recently - and I still have lots to do. >> I have long been wanting to have some sort of "home directory" facility Interesting idea . >> Another minor project Ive been working on recently is fixing and updating my >> asm2htm utility (big yawn, everyone!) No big yawns from me - I thought that it was a great little utility - and then it vanished ! >> Personally, I think the output is impressive. Whether anyone apart >> from me finds it useful is another question. I'll find it useful - when I get time to that is ! Good luck. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Microdrive Cartridges
Morning Dilwyn, better test the stickyness of the glue first - I know from experience that it tends to 'go off' after a while. I've just binned a full roll of brown parcel tape (no, the tape is brown, not the parcels!) which had tuned into a roll of brown cellophane and some dust ! Only about a year and a half old. Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Microdrive Cartridges Found the tail end of a roll of Industrial Process microdrive labels. I estimate about 200 labels (i.e. about 100 cartridge body and about 100 end labels). Will pop them in the post to you tomorrow morning. -- Dilwyn Jones This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] A message from Darren Branagh...
Hi Roy, your definition of fun is obviously different from mine then :o) Definition of 'baby poo' : 50% toxic waste 50% velcro :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Roy Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] A message from Darren Branagh... My Congratulations to him too. Now the fun starts - tee hee ! This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] A message from Darren Branagh...
Ah well then, he can read this when he gets back ! Congratulations to both of you - no more QL'ing for a while now then :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Steve Reyal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] A message from Darren Branagh... His better half, Sandra, has just produced a bouncing baby Branagh - Dylan Jack. He weighed in at 7lbs 0oz (without wellies) at 10.57 this morning in Co. Galway, Ireland. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription ? ? ?
Morning Kevein, I believe 'QL Toady' is one of my inventions - but I could be wrong. It originally started as a slight mis-spelling in an email, and seems to have become a 'term of endearment'. Apart from that, I happen to like reptiles and amphibians - so there :o) Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Kevin Lawton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription ? ? ? Toady ? Just what is being implied about QL Today here ? This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers
Must be 6 - 48 bits :o) -Norman DunbarDatabase/Unix administratorLynx Financial Systems Ltd.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Tel: 0113 289 6265Fax: 0113 289 3146URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com- -Original Message-From: Claude Mourier 00 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:03 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers 3 or 6 bytes ? -Message d'origine-De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Envoyé : mercredi 12 mars 2003 16:00À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Objet : Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbersIn a message dated 11/03/03 03:40:54 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a final digression, I've always bemoaned the fact that floating point is only allowed a twelve bit exponent. It could have gone for 15 bits, which would have reduced the overall code and increased the speed! There you go. Ah. But you could use the FPU, with its 15-bit exponent and 64-bit mantissa, on the Q40, Q60 and some QXLs to do rather longer precision arithmetic. Actually the FPU on a Thor 21 was used even to do Qdos arithmetic although AFAIK only Simon Goodwin's trig functions (on the Q40 and Q60) actually use the FPU. Otherwise Qdos is just the old fashioned 3-byte 32 bit mantissa, 12 bit exponent. George This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers
Morning François, Per wrote : >> >> you cant change the world, change yourself!" might usefully be applied to >> >> the problem. you replied : >> Or in this situation; if more serious work is involved, avoid Qdos/Smsq ;-) I'm afraid it isn't any better in the mainframe, Unix server or PC world. Floating point numbers either can or cannot be represented accurately. You could use C68 and use IEEE format floats (or even doubles) but you still cannot represent numbers like '10 and one third' correctly. I work in a software house which writes financial packages for finance companies, Banks, the motor industry etc and accuracy is needed - but you can't get it with floating point. All our calculations are done in integer values - even for currencies which have huge number - like the old Italian Lira (of which I'm very fond - 1977 was the only time I've ever been a millionaire !). QDOSMSQ's main problem , as you have found, is not so much the range of numbers that can be represented, but the way that the software displays it. I'm sure some of the procedure wriuters amongst us, who understand these floating point things (I don't !), could write a routine to take in a float and return a 'proper' string representation for display purposes ... Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription
Thanks Roy. And thanks for the 'discount' - although I'm happy to pay the full price anyway - I like to see my name in print :o) Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Roy Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription To Norman and Bill thanks for that and I have done as you asked. Actually this is a good idea since I cannot use this list for the commercial purpose of reminding those who have forgotten to renew their subscription having someone pop up and do this by accident might remind a few more and save postage for reminders. Thanks. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription
No worries Bill :o) It will be delivered to me :o) - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Bill Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription Hi Roy I'd be grateful if you would renew my Subscription using Normans Visa card details which you already (should) have. (;-) (;-) (;-) All the best - Bill ( and thanks Norman ) This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] QL Toady subscription
Hi Roy, I'd be grateful if you would renew my Subscription using my Visa card details which you already (should) have. If not, drop me an email, and I'll phone them through. Thanks. Regards, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription
Oops ! That was meant to go to Roy Wood privately - sorry. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Norman Dunbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ql-users] QL Toady subscription Hi Roy, This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QL Today News
Morning John, put me down as 'interested' in your article as well ! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] List is very quiet?
Morning Jim, I supbscribe to a couple of lists, this one for pleasure, others for work. All of them have been quiet over the last couple of days. I thought our email system had broken again, so I had a Techie check it out - it was fine. It's probably just that everyone is working away dilligently building the next great QDOSMSQ application - which reminds me, why are you wasting good development time sending out emails - don't you have the next great QDOSMSQ application to finish? :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: James Hunkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] List is very quiet? Guys, I haven't seen any activity for a couple of days here. Is everyone on break over there or is there a problem with this list? Jim This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Job Communication
Morning Rich, I'm pretty sure that George changed the pipe channels when he upgraded Turbo. I think I remember reading it in the docs somewhere ! Failing that, there was a utility some time back called 'client server' or similar. It allowed you to set up a task which run as a server and as many clients as you liked could connect to it and pass commands over and get results back from the server. It's probably on Dilwyn's site or Tony's somewhere. HTH Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Job Communication
Hello again Rich, I found it ! ENHANCEMENTS and AMENDMENTS v 4.3 to v4.10 V4.3 Up to 32 channels can be opened. The previous limit was 16. This means that 30 and 31 must replace 14 and 15 in the description of EXECUTE in the manual of Turbo TK code. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Directory Devices
Dilwyn, 750 Kb zip file of rockets on launchpads in your inbox :o) Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Directory Devices >> Next thing I need is a good free graphic of a rocket on a Launchpad to >> use as a skin or BGIMAGE! -- Dilwyn Jones This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Directory Devices
Dilywn, won't you have a problem where people use 'FLP_USE Xyz' and so on ? I know when I was supporting WInBack, we had a customer who used it to back up his stuff over a network, so he set up his networked floopy drive N2_flp1_ as fdk1_ and backed up to that. Just thinking out loud ! Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions
Hi Phoebus, >> Recently someone at the university asked me why I still used SBasic (and I >> usually bring to the labs a QPC Zip disk)... I challenged him to do a >> vector addition program (with Graphics) in any Basic and it to be under 5 >> lines of code and it to be precise enough for the results to be used as >> scientific-grade data guess what? He couldn't ;-) I don't even understand the question Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website
Tee Hee - they both wrapped anyway !!! Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans on website OK, let's try again, acrefully type in twice as described, with opening and closing and no space between : and http URL:http//homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware. html> URL:http://homepages.tesco.net/dilwyn.jones/software/freeware/freeware .html> This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QLWA documentation
Cheers Marcel, I knew it was either you or Per who supplied me, but I wasn't sure. Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:31 PM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLWA documentation Norman Dunbar wrote: > http://www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qdos/qlwa.html > That's all I have on the matter - supplied from docs written by Tony Tebby > (I am reliably informed). It's not much, but it might be useful. That's the keys_qlwa file of the SMSQ/E sources. Lacking any more written information I had given that out in the pre-open source time. Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] QLWA documentation
http://www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qdos/qlwa.html That's all I have on the matter - supplied from docs written by Tony Tebby (I am reliably informed). It's not much, but it might be useful. Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Jerome Grimbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ql-users] QLWA documentation Hello, does anyone have a synthetic and complete documentation regarding the QLWA filesystem (the one used on Qx0 and QPC). This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] How many items can print handle in one line ?
Morning, seems that the 'silly' things get everyone involved :o) Cheers, Norman. PS. I forgot about the spaces - they didn't actually exist in the original program, only in what I typed - force of habit. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] How many items can print handle in one line ? You nearly caught me out there - I tried working it out, and it seemed not to come out as what I expected, until I noticed all the unneccesary spaces in your line. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] How many items can print handle in one line ?
Ok, it's silly season ! I've written a small test program to generate another single line PRINT statement and found that the limit is 2,746 items in a print statement will be printed BUT any more than this will simply refuse to print or list. All you get is a blank screen. The one line was simply : 1000 PRINT '1'; '2'; '3'; '4'; . '2746'; I tried with other max numbers but 2,746 was the final value that actually allowed the print to work. Any more and print gave up as did LIST. The total line length of the raw text (ie not in internal format) was 20,872 bytes. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Epson 800 wanted
The Epson Stylus 800 was indeed a Parallel printer - I had one. I think, but I'm not sure, that there was a serial interface available for it. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Jerome Grimbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Epson 800 wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes some magical things to make me read } Anyone got an Epson stylus 800 colour printer (or similar) for sale?? Needs } to be a serial printer - I only have dot matrix ones here Are you sure the Epson is not a parallel printer ? This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Display_cde GD2 update
There's always one isn't there ! when the line gets too long - and I'm not quite there yet - you simply get a 'buffer full' error when loading a really really long line into S*Basic. So, I suspect the limit on the number of parameters in a PRINT is defined by the length of the actual line of pre-compiled text - 32Kb if I remember correctly. I'll let you know what the limit is - if I ever find it ! Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:35 AM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] Display_cde GD2 update I hope nobody is trying to actually find that limit in practice, though. Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
Morning George, I wrote an expression evaluator once, many years ago, in SuperBasic and then converted it to C. Yeuch - all that recursion. I suspect the obvious answer to how the EE should be written is 'so that it conforms to arithmetic priority' as in brackets, multiplication/division addition/subtraction etc. There was an ancronym thingy we used to use at school, but that was many many years ago and I'm losing my mind, so I can't remember. An expression is, if I remember correctly : ( expression ) term * term term / term factor + factor factor - factor number and a term or factor can be signed, and are, in them selves just another form of expression - now you see where the recursion comes in ! If you need/want my sources than I can dig them out for you - just let me know. Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question In a message dated 26/01/03 17:09:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone wants this I would appreciate a definition of how the expressions should be evaluated. An updated GWASS would, of course, have to have a new option to use its current method of evaluation or to use the different method. I await comments with ba(i)ted breath. George This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Fwd - help
Morning Dilwyn, I suspect the foaming stuff in the sea off Whitby is probably the result of something a lot less socially acceptable than a group of QL users (Feeble attempt I know, but !). I'm pretty sure there's plenty of sewage type stuff around there. Or maybe, for the oldies amongst us, it's 'Cresta'. (It's frothy man !) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fwd - help Did you see the item in the news today about the foaming town of Whitby in N.Yorkshire? Seems some organism which grows in the sea near there tends to froth up in this kind of weather, This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Fwd - help
Morning all, Marcel got it appended, and I got it as an attachment - in plain text format. I wonder if it depends upon your mail reader. Cheers, Norman. (In Yorkshire where is *is* windy/snowing/blowing/drifting/cold/horrible - and I'm still in my T shirt :o) - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:20 AM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fwd - help [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Damn - I will have to resend the original text then - thought it would be > appended to the message (it is on AOL!!). Actually it was appended. Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
Getting someone else to fight for you eh ? - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: John G Hitchcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:19 PM To: QL-users e-mail Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question Re: === It's just like being in Wales ! Cheers, Norman. == Go for him Dilwyn.. John in Wales This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
Morning Per, now that made me chukkle as I sit here early in the morning, while all around me the roof tiles are rattling, the wind is blowing a howling gale and it is absolutely widdling down ! It's just like being in Wales ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question Norman Dunbar writes: > I wasn't being critical - honest. You wont get much thanks for being either ;) Per This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emails !
Hi Rich (Mellor not Mellow !) No worries, I was merely reporting an observation which may have been partly responsible for a recent thread, not casting aspersions on your good name, nor George's. Sorry about the typo in your name ! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emails ! >> Both George Gwilt and I are using AOL - we have no option, but to send emails in HTML unfortunately... This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
Morning George, I wasn't being critical - honest. Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question I never intended in either GWASL or GWASS to go to the trouble of evaluating expressions except in a "simple" way. That is in both assemblers evaluation is done from left to right ignoring implied brackets (parentheses) so 3+4*8 becomes 3+4 -> 7 7*8 -> 56 Other assemblers no doubt will produce the answer 3 + (4*8) = 3 + 32 = 35 I had to go through several instructions in Turbo'c codegen altering the order of the expressions so that GWASS wouild get the right answer. I apologise if people find it troublesome. (Again it is probably another case of RTFM if things appear to go wrong.) George This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
[ql-users] OT : Intersting foinble when replying to HTML emails !
I don't want to start a huge thread on this as it is OT, but I've noticed that when George Gwilt and Rich Mellow reply to an email, it comes through in HTML with nice blue lines down the quoted text. When I reply, I force the format to plain text - as it required :o) - and the quoting is silently removed by Outlook. I wonder if this is part of the cause for a recent thread with Bill Waugh's email not having quoted text shown as quoted ? Cheers, Norman. PS. Try it for yourself, pick an HTML email, reply and set the format to plain text and see what happens. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Q-Trans Trash can
Dilwyn,
if you wanted something really simple, set the 'backup' date of the file in
Trash to be the original 'update' date of the file before 'trashing'.
Similar, but totally different, to what I do in WinBack. (And you have the
source code !)
If you want, there are FSET_ routines in Winback.bin (and source in
Winback.asm) that you are free to use and abuse. The one you'll want for the
above suggestion is FSET_update('file_name', date_as_number) where
date_as_number is simply the return from FILE_update or whatever.
Cheers,
Norman.
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-Original Message-
From: James Hunkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans Trash can
I actually date stamp backup copies of the desktop files in QDT, using
'C' system calls that tap into QDOS stuff. It is actually quite easy
(once I looked it up and tried it that is). Using the date that the
file was trashed would work but what if a person throws the same file
name 2 or more times in a day; perhaps append a letter to the end of
the day if the file is already in the trash?
I am also thinking that you may be able to easily maintain the original
file write date when you move it. I seem to recall a way of doing it
but the details are not coming to mind. This would be seen for example
in the files application. Definitely not a requirement if you date
stamp it as you mentioned but a nice thing instead.
jim
> I'm looking at how feasible a 'delete files older than xxx days'
> option might be. It's likely it'll be a loose item in the Commands
> menu which only becomes active if that window is displaying the Trash.
> I'm not too sure how to handle file dates, I feel a small learning
> curve coming on! Basically, it'll work from whatever date the file was
> put into Trash.
>
> Main thing though is that it's kept simple. The file that goes into
> the Trash can really will be a last ditch disaster recovery file, no
> original dates stored, the only path info being the filename as
> copied. In that sense I'm disregarding the 'for it to be useful it has
> to do x and y clever things' requests which will involve creating
> extra bytes in the file or some form of index file stored in Trash.
> Trash is simply 'Move File Into A Directory Rather Than Delete' not a
> full recycle bin.
>
> --
> Dilwyn Jones
> - Original Message -
> From: James Hunkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans Trash can
>
>
>>
>> Dilwyn,
>>
>> What I have seen done is:
>>- if another copy of a file exists in the trashcan, rename the
> copy
>> being moved there (IE: _1, _2, _3). This doesn't require a date
> thing
>> but, using the date code on the file would be about the same thing).
>>
>> Also, if you don't mind, I would like to 'borrow' your trashcan
> concept
>> for QDT. I have this thing about standards - love them. Any
>> objections?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Far too complex for what is a fairly simple compiled basic piece
> of
>>> code as outlined. No chance whatsoever of this being done -
> Q-Trans
>>> has no date handling routines or file stats facilities anyway,
> plus
>>> the simple minded approach means the Q-Trash (or whatever you call
> it)
>>> can be manipulated by any file handler.
>>>
>>> Dilwyn
>>> - Original Message -
>>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 3:52 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Trans Trash can
>>>
>>>
>>>> In a message dated 19/01/03 15:12:05 GMT Standard Time,
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've added a Trash-can facility to Q-Trans and would like some
>>>>> feedback on how it should work. Basically, it's a short one
>>> character
>>>>> length named folder on a specified drive (e.g. WIN1_*_) into
> which
>>>>> files are moved rather than being deleted as such, so that a
>>> degree of
>>>>> restoration of 'deleted' files is possible.
>>>&
RE: [ql-users] Q-Trans Trash can
Dilwyn wrote : >> I'm not too sure how to handle file dates, I feel a small learning >> curve coming on! Basically, it'll work from whatever date the file was >> put into Trash. You need 'DJToolkit' it has all sorts of file date routines :o) Cheers, Norman. ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
-Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:30 PM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question >> Marcel (currently looking at and writing 68k assembler about 5 hours a >> day...) You have my sympathies then ! Regards, Norman (currently debugging register list routine in QLTDis about 5 hours a night !) ----- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question
Hi Joachim, now then, what's wrong with using a tool to get a job done then ? After all, computers are *supposed* to make life easier for us arn't they ? Mind you, in Dilwyn's case Cheers, Norman. --------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Joachim Van der Auwera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question What, using a computer to solve the puzzle... You cheater :-) Joachim P.S. hey, at least I gave the right answer (and fastest too - must be working really hard at the moment), even if I didn't do the actual hex calculations. Not that I want to brag about it. - Original Message - From: "Norman Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Assembly question Curses, I have been found out ! I agree that an assembler *should* evaluate expressions properly, but some don't I'm afraid. QMAC seems to do it, but GWASL (ie the light version) can't assemble the original code for the lea instruction. I can't remember if the original GST non-macro assembler did it correctly or not. Anyway, as written the code is a bit misleading, in the loop the CONTENTS of ADDRESS elem_size is being added to A1, which on my QPCv3 is zero, so at the end of the loop, A1 is still set to $160, then the lea changes it to $270. Rerunning the code to add #elem_size to A1 each time results in a1 coming out of the loop set to $19C and then changing to £2AC after the final lea. So the code as written sets A1 to $270 on exit. 'Corrected' code sets A1 to $2AC on exit. The expression chico-4*elem_size evaluates to $110 using the QMAC assmebler so it does evaluate correctly. Thanks for correcting my 'interesting' version of how LEA works !! Cheers, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - -Original Message- From: Marcel Kilgus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:15 AM To: ql-users Subject: Re: [ql-users] Assembly question Norman Dunbar wrote: > lea chico-4*elem_size(a1),a1A1 = $140 - $19c + (4 * $0c) > = $140 - $1cc Huh, interesting interpretation of LEA, but I'm afraid your 68k might disagree ;-) The address register is the base (i.e. always added), "chico-4*elem_size" is the offset. And of course an assembler must obey the rule to multiply first, otherwise it's trash. > How did I do ? I'm afraid you have to take that exam again ;-) Ciao, Marcel This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
RE: [ql-users] Assembly question
Hi Jerome, The dbra, stops when the counter is at -1. So your example executes the loop 5 times with d2 set to 4 then 3 then 2 then 1 then 0 and finally stops. Cheers, Norman - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com - This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
