Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Tony Firshman
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Norman Dunbar wrote: Ok, to be really honest, I can think of one reason - someone will have to write it as part of SMSQ. Yes, that and that basically ALL applications would have to be updated to make use of the new facilities. Difficult to pull off. One more

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: Hmm, why have all apps to know, where they are? They don't need to know where they are, but most apps I use work with files, be it source-code, spread-sheets, word-processor documents, you name it. If the system let them believe, they are in their root (if necessary), they

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Of course, the 36 character limit is always there, even in the TK3 way. All was done mostly for those programs which have/had hard coded file destinations in there program or data files. For that, it was the best solution (even Professional Publisher is such dirty in some of its files).

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Imagine not being able to use QPAC2 anymore because the directory you want to navigate to is too deeply nested in the tree. That was what I had in mind when I suggested that we also change the directory separator. So if the path is full of '/' (for example) then those are

Re: [Ql-Users] Hard directories

2008-11-25 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Good day, Norman, well, I was a bit annoyed, because I have sent Tony the sources (just to open his ideas), explained, why it should be better to use a different system esp. for WIN files, but there was no comment. Perheps he has finished the WIN driver for the Miraculix hard disk and do not

Re: [Ql-Users] Library Guide

2008-11-25 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Dilwyn, I may one, somewhere ... Was it supplied in binder of some type ? Just so I know what to look out for. Does anyone have an old printed Quanta Library Guide I could have or borrow? (for my collection). --

Re: [Ql-Users] Library Guide

2008-11-25 Thread John Taylor
Dilwyn The Quanta Library was included in the Welcome Book with occasional revisions issued loose. I lost mine years ago. John Taylor On 25 Nov 2008, at 20:48, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I may one, somewhere ... Was it supplied in binder of some type ? Just so I know what to look out for.