Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?
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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: Re: [ql-users] QPC on a Nokia Series 60?
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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Network link QL -- PC possible?
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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] README_TXT
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 Gerhard ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] README_TXT
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 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
