Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-12 Thread Gerhard Plavec
 You cannot use the phone and bluetooth functions but it remains a
 programmable PDA with photo
 and video-camera :)
 You can read and answer all the eMails, MMS and SMS you got before
 switching to the plane mode
 to be ready sending them exiting plane or hospital...
 You have a better phone than I.  I cannot use my phone without enabling
 the transmitter.
 What phone have you that allows this to be turned off?

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=111620

 Mind you I don't fancy your chances persuading the officials that it is
 not a phone (8-)#

As turning off an on the phone mode is onely one little click, may be they'll think I 
am a
terrorist...
But nowadays they may think anyone is a terrorist even if he has no phone at all (c:

No phones on planes are dangerous... planes are (c:
Gerhard



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Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?

2004-08-11 Thread Gerhard Plavec
 Imagine the xchange suite running on your mobile phone, or the like of
 quascade and the PE on a mobile.. using the joystick on the phone to
 control the pointer drool!! Not to mention being able to tinker on the
 way into work on the train!!

 Marcel, if you are so Java opposed, how big a job would it be to port QPC
 to the phone using C/C++ ?

Better compile uQLx or QemuLator for that purpose...

I am interested (my phone - a Motorola A925 - uses Symbian) but not experienced in 
compiling
C/C++   :-(

Someone can give some  hints ?
Gerhard



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Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?

2004-07-30 Thread Gerhard Plavec
 File transfer via floppy disk is my current alternative, but looks like that
 is not too reliable - maybe due to the fact that I do not have 'real' 3.5
 DD disks but rather HD disks formatted as DD. The QL's disk drive apparently
 does not have problems with them but QPC2 doesn't recognize DD formatted HD
 disks unless I close the HD hole with adhesive tape. Marcel, I guess the
 program has a good reason to primarily look for the disk's hardware marker
 (hole)  rather than its actual formatting?

Some drives recognize the hole by light-sensor some other by a switch...
so your adhesive tape may be opac an closing the hole on both sides !

 When I close the HD hole on the disk then the QL sometimes reports read
 errors with files written on the PC's disk drive. I assume my QL's disk
 drive is not sick, because it never has problems with disks that are only in
 use on that drive all the time.

I had a lot of good running but not compatible drives :-(

Another point : always format HD-disks in DD-format onely with the DD-drive !!!
Use onely fresh formatted-disks to make transfer and do not use files on them for long 
time...

 Is it possible that data exchange between DD and HD drives is in principle
 unsafe beacuse of something like different magnetic ... whatever ...
 behavior?

HD-heads are smaller than DD-heads : that's the source of most of problems.

 Greetings!

 Michael

So long
Gerhard



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Re: [ql-users] README_TXT

2004-07-24 Thread Gerhard Plavec
 Hello Folks!

 Here is another simple question:
 How can I quick and dirty create a text file under QDOS?

 I think of something equivalent to MS_DOS:

 COPY CON README.TXT
 mary had a little lamb
 bla bla bla
 ^Z

 Used this a lot to write notes such as start addresses, commands, findings
 etc. The disk with the prog itself is always a better plyce for notes than
 some sheet of paper.

 Tried copy con_ to flp1_readme_txt but after that my input prompt was
 gone. CTRL + Z didn't finish the command either.
 Would be glad if someone gave me a hint...


 Regards

 Michael

Simply make a break (ctrl-space) after ctrl-z so file will be written and input will be
channel#0

regards
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Re: [ql-users] README_TXT

2004-07-24 Thread Gerhard Plavec
 Thank you all for your comments.

 Just tried on the real QL, something such as

 copy con_ to ram1_test
 the magic number is 27314

 CTRL + Space

 afterwards I can see the text file using the TK2 command VIEW.
 The only thing I miss is input echo, I have to type blindly (and as all of
 you know the QL keyboard is somewhat ยง$%?(/#)
 Is there a way to perform such an action with input echo turned on?

Simply enter 1 REM ...and your text...
then SAVE file (enter NEW fist to be sure there is no programm loaded)

A better way is to use EDIT (TK2) or - of course - another text editor

Best for very short text is : SAVE ram1_the magic number is 27314

 This experiment suggests QDOS does not need an EOF character (which IIRC is
 not a char that sits there as a byte of the file but is rather a command to
 close the file under MSDOS)

You need CTRL-z onely with : COPY con_ to ser1z

 In case the file would not have been properly closed on the disk - does QDOS
 or TK2 have an utility to check for the integrity of a disk (something
 comparable to CHKDSK from the MSDOS world)?

Problems by not properly closed files is a typically windoof problem... oops... 
feature :)
Such problems are rare with QDOS (microdrives not included :)

Best regards
Gerhard



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