Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Robert Newson wrote: DATE returns the number of seconds [since 01/01/61] for the /current/ date/time (I suspect it just reads a/the clock); It can read the clock, but you can also do PRINT DATE(1996,1,10,12,59,59) Marcel I suspect most people don't know about this form of DATE, since

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-25 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:23:14 +0200 schreef Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In terms of platform, the (Super) Gold Card is common to the QL and Aurora, which blurs the lines a little. In terms of obtaining a version of SMSQ/E for your system, When the Aurora came out there was a patch

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-25 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Bob Spelten scripsit:: Now A Question. When running SMSQ/E on a QXL in high colour mode, this takes up a lot of extra memory and is very slow in screen operations. The Aurora suffers less from this compared to running in mode 4. Would a QXL mode 256 option give back some memory and

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: When running SMSQ/E on a QXL in high colour mode, this takes up a lot of extra memory and is very slow in screen operations. The Aurora suffers less from this compared to running in mode 4. Would a QXL mode 256 option give back some memory and speed? Probably. Actually I

Re: [ql-users] (OTramblings about left and right)

2006-09-25 Thread George Gwilt
On 24 Sep 2006, at 21:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Shall we ponder how this rumour will work? Start with clock faces changing from 1-12 to 1-10. Napoleon tried to make the time go metric. I actually saw an example of a French clock of the period which had ten hours per day. It didn't take on

[ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread George Gwilt
If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8, with win1 to win8 and so on. But it does not give the correct

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: If I want to know whether a floppy disk will take the file I want to save to it I type STAT. If DATAD$ = flp1_ I can see the total number of sectors and the number of free sectors. This is useful. It works with ram1 to ram8, with win1 to win8 and so on. But it does not

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Newson
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Robert Newson wrote: DATE returns the number of seconds [since 01/01/61] for the /current/ date/time (I suspect it just reads a/the clock); It can read the clock, but you can also do PRINT DATE(1996,1,10,12,59,59) Marcel I suspect most people don't know about this

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-25 Thread Rich Mellor
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:40:17 +0100, Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Robert Newson wrote: DATE returns the number of seconds [since 01/01/61] for the /current/ date/time (I suspect it just reads a/the clock); It can read the clock, but you can also do PRINT

Re: [ql-users] (OTramblings about left and right)

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Newson
George Gwilt wrote: On 24 Sep 2006, at 21:56, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Shall we ponder how this rumour will work? Start with clock faces changing from 1-12 to 1-10. Napoleon tried to make the time go metric. I actually saw an example of a French clock of the period which had ten hours per

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Newson
Rich Mellor wrote: ... It can read the clock, but you can also do PRINT DATE(1996,1,10,12,59,59) ... I suspect most people don't know about this form of DATE, since the QL manual (Concepts - Date) does not list the 6 parameter version, and neither does the Jan Jones Superbasic guide. ...

Re: [ql-users] Platforms OSs (was month number)

2006-09-25 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Rich Mellor wites: So that gives us the following hardware platforms: Thanks Rich and Per. This would make an excellent article for either QL Today ( Toady), and Quanta magazine. Are you able to write this up, Rich ? --

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:30:42 +0200 schreef Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: stat dos1_ c:\ 1486360/149500824 sectors No idea, looks right to me here. Actually DOS was the reason I had to alter STAT to deal with large drives. But that was in 2002, i.e. no recent change. Strange, my dos1

Re: [ql-users] month number

2006-09-25 Thread Stephen
Robert Newson wrote: Just tried: PRINT DATE(1996,1,10,12,59,59) on my JS [ROMed QL - later than JM] and it comes up with: bad parameter /was/ it a Minerva improvement? So it would appear. From Minerva Technical Guide, section BAS.1: The date procedures now accept a wider

Re: [ql-users] How Much Space Do I Have?

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: Thats about 2GB while it should be 4GB free on a 6GB partition. All my partitions give exactly the same numbers, they all have more than 4GB free. Also QPAC2 Files reports 2048MB for both free and total numbers. My QPC2 (3.32/3.12) runs under W98SE. Hm yes, W98, that's the