Re: [ql-users] QPC Sockets

2006-09-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Malcolm Lear wrote: > Is it possible to download a file from a web address using the > TCP/UDP sockets and an Sbasic program? I've been looking for > documentation and programming examples with no success. Yes, it is possible. The protocol you have to speak is HTTP and described here http://www.ie

Re: [ql-users] Q40 and SMSQE v3.12

2006-09-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > This, of course, will not work on the Q40, because it does not have > the register PCR. Obviously I am missing something because I could > not see anywhere the code preventing this operation from being > applied to a 68040. Nope, not missing anything, the code seems to be

Re: [ql-users] New Blood

2006-09-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: > I feel I'm a little late to join the party but I'm here now and > ready to join the QL community. It's never too late to join a party that has been going on for well over 21 years ;-) > I have set myself some personal goals which hopfully I will achieve, > number one is to act

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.10 and beyond

2006-09-08 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > 1. I now remember that I tried iop.flim in the past and found it no > use. It returns the maximum window size and its position for the > channel ID presented to it. If the window is a primary the maximum is > the whole screen, at 0,0. If you open two windows in a program and

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.10 and beyond

2006-09-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > I have discovered why some of my programs are so slow with v3.12 on > the Q60. It is because changing the window size is now much much > slower than with v3.10. The code causing the trouble finds the > biggest dimensions of window. The width is easy to find but, on older >

Re: [ql-users] MCALLT

2006-09-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > The Easyptr manual is pretty scant on the subject, basically > describing it as an MCALL with a couple of extra parameters in > Easyptr's IMPORTANT_TXT file. It doesn't really give any examples > showing to properly use it. I did rewrite the MCALLT text in manual revision 1.0

Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

2006-09-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Rich Mellor wrote: > However, ideally the minimum surely has to be 36+5?? (rounded up to 42) or > does the library have a distinct device name string also?? No, the device name is not part of the directory/file name. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List ht

Re: [ql-users] bug in qlib_h C68 support file

2006-09-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > I think that I found a bug in the qlib_h include file used by C68. > Here are the details: > > In the 'qdirect' structure, the member 'd_name' is defined as: > char d_name[36]; Your misconception is that d_name holds a null terminated string, which it doesn't. The le

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-09-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > Opera takes a little getting used to. To my mind, neither images nor > text are rendered to the same quality as in IE, but Im used to it > now. One possible reason is that IE ignores the ClearType system setting for text. It always enables ClearType, even if the rest of the system

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-09-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
gwicks wrote: > I realise this and what makes it worse is that by default Opera claims to be > IE. Actually one can still tell them apart because in that case Opera claims to be both IE and Opera. It's a funny story actually, because due to historic reasons all IE versions pretend to be Netscape!

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Malcolm Cadman wrote: > All useful features, and yet not having them doesn't prevent enjoying > the use. As is often the case, good things you don't know you don't miss. Good things you do know however you never want to miss again. >>Opera 6 is how old? 5 years? Unlike IE, Opera HAS been improved

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > Marcel - what are "mouse gestures"? Essentially you hold the right button down while drawing small figures with the mouse. This will be interpreted as different commands by the browser, like open new tab, close tab, open in background etc. Incredible effective way to give co

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Malcolm Cadman wrote: > So ... what in particular is painful about IE ? Mainly it's inherently unsafe to use it on the internet. No IE user should be surprised if they catch some virus, worm or whatever. Apart form that it's usually slower, it doesn't have proper keyboard navigation, it lacks brow

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.13

2006-08-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: >> Wow, that bug is probably almost as old as I am! Fix will be included >> in 3.13 which is somewhat overdue anyway (I added some nifty new >> features that needed deeper testing, but that should all be okay now). > Nifty new features? Christmas has come early this year! I can just

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It's changing the subject a little but in spite of the fact there are so >> many critics of I.E. on this list 72.3% of people accessing my site use IE. >> 24.5% Netscape and only 2.2% Opera. > I wonder if that's because it is free (well, you get it when you pay for > Wi

Re: [ql-users] Updated web site

2006-08-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
gwicks wrote: > It's changing the subject a little but in spite of the fact there are so > many critics of I.E. on this list 72.3% of people accessing my site use IE. > 24.5% Netscape and only 2.2% Opera. Oh, those 2.2% were probably me :-) Best browser eva. If it weren't that good I'd probably do

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE v3.12 and FTEST

2006-08-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > FTEST(a$) should return 0 if a$ is the name of an existing file that > can be opened or the name of a directory, but should return a > negative number otherwise. I was surprised to see that the following > program produced 0 instead of -7. > > 1000 DIM k$(40) > 1010 k$="

Re: [ql-users] Easel graphics

2006-08-06 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Yes, it can display more screen area, no it can't save it. You get > the top 32K as far as I can tell. Certainly, it remains a 32K file > with bottom of the graph missing. Yes, I didn't change that part of the code. It's possible to do, but oh well, one could also just use an

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-08-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > Obviously true. But this still leaves the problem of finding out > which of the parts are in fact used in SMSQE. As far as I can see: uti_usemenus uti_hotstuff uti_usethings uti_thingjump uti_thingvector That should be all. Regarding the issues: > 1. In "uti_pulldown_long_

Re: [ql-users] Programs using colour themes

2006-08-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > I got to use a program Marcel wrote to patch colours some time ago. > Unfortunately, I've misplaced it - I had hoped to try to use it to > patch some older programs of mine to see what could be made of them. You mean my basic program to patch binaries and/or EasyMenu files?

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-08-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > While these two files cannot be assembled without further > information, it seems that they are not in fact used in SMSQE! > > The source code contains several other files which are not used either. That's because technically it's not part of SMSQ/E, it's a library by Jochen

Re: [ql-users] SMSQE source code v 3.12

2006-07-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > SMSQE v 3.12 is a nice advance on previous versions. I especially > like the addition of HISTORY to SBASIC and daughter basics. Thanks. > However, one file "sbsext_ext_exsbas_asm" cannot be assembled (by > any assembler) because the label "fle_nm" is not defined in the cod

Re: [ql-users] North American QL Show Saturday September 30th 2006

2006-07-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > You mean final months where you actually have to have a real job :) Right now I'd very much prefer a real job over this... > Too bad you won't be able to get over here! Actually it's your turn to come over here anyway ;-) Marcel _

Re: [ql-users] North American QL Show Saturday September 30th 2006

2006-07-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Koenig Urs wrote: > I leave for summer holidays on Friday. > > Question: Who else of the Europeans will attend the American Show? Well, even though it will be on Canadian soil and spare me the hassles of US immigration (pretty much a must for me) I cannot attend it, too expensive and I won't reall

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ for QXL in NA?

2006-06-19 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Al Feng wrote: > Who is handling SMSQ for QXL in North America, now? Same people that do it for the rest of the world, I suppose. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Q40/Q60 screen

2006-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: > I would of thought that the screen functions in SMSQ/E could be used to to > define the screen size > > 105 scr_size=SCR_XLIM * SCR_YLIM > 110 FOR a = 0 to scr_size Once again, wrong, sorry. Either you do "scr_size - 1" or "a = 1". With this bug the file will be 2 bytes too

Re: [ql-users] Q40/Q60 screen

2006-06-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > 100 OPEN_NEW #3,ram1_test33_scr > 110 FOR a = 0 to 131072 Why 131072? If it was a 512x256 screen, 131071 would be the correct value (or you start with "a = 1"), but on 1024x512 it's 524287. Apart from that, your values should work. Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] Infinity

2006-05-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Tubbs wrote: > So if it is possible for the computer to handle infinity how and where is > it done ? > > Processor or co-processor ? It's part of the FPU (floating point unit). This can be an external co-processor but usually is part of the main processor nowadays. > Would it be dependent o

Re: [ql-users] SMS SOS [OT?]

2006-05-28 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > A friend of mine may just have won his court case thanks to an SMS he had > the foresight to keep! (Mine are more likely to get me into trouble, but > what the hell! Id like to keep them all the same ;) Wow. I mean even I can send any text message with any sender-number attached t

Re: [ql-users] SMS SOS [OT?]

2006-05-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > Im one of those weirdos who actually wants to keep text messages, or SMSes, > as theyre known. You have not understood that only meaningless things are send through SMS that are not worth archiving? ;-) > A more careful, though by no means exhaustive, trawl around this mad > worl

Re: [ql-users] apostrophes

2006-05-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
David Tubbs wrote: > Not sure if your question is for real, if it is you have defined the > subject as numeric, since most (if not all) computers throw a wobbly at > infinity the answer must be less. Not quite, all computers following the IEEE 754 standard (which includes every PC and Motorola FPU

Re: [ql-users] ProWesS Screen Driver for 256 Colour mode

2006-05-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Roy wood wrote: > Arnie Clarke has written to me to ask about problems he has had with > ProWesS using the 256 Colour SMSQ/E. There is no driver for that mode. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Mawdraw

2006-04-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Fabrizio Diversi wrote: > yes totally right, as usual the limit of 32768 from Wman, same i think, > for all pointer driven programs. Is that right? I currently cannot imagine where any such limit might originate from. If somebody could send me short and working test applications to check for the

Re: [ql-users] Is Goldfire vapourware? I don't fhink so

2006-04-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Arnould wrote: > AND anyway I do not know if Marcel could be interested. Marcel? I was, but soon I will probably not have the time anymore. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > For various reasons only a subset of 68020+ instructions have been > coded so far for QPC2. That was some days ago, I have done much in the meantime ;-) > Instructions not emulated include MOVE16 (68040) and TRAPcc. I didn't implement MOVE16 because it's in the LINE-F segme

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Fabrizio Diversi wrote: > I am wondering if these QPC emulation changes implement the full set > of the M68020 new instructions Pretty much the full thing except MMU and FPU. > or just a subset of these, as an example MOVE16 instruction will be > implemented ? MOVE16 is 68040 only. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: >> Next QPC2 version will probably be able to run it. > The test version of QPC2 demonstrated at the recent Quanta meeting in > Manchester certainly does run GWASS. True, that worked fine from the get go. But still I've spend the last few days almost full-time getting everythin

Re: [ql-users] printer problem

2006-04-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Some printer manuals do say that when you first set up an inkjet, it > is "charged" with ink and that is why the cartridges supplied with the > printerseem to last a lot less than new cartridges you install if you > have to soak up this sponge the first time! Actually if tha

Re: [ql-users] GWASS on QPC2

2006-04-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Derek Stewart wrote: > If emulators are the way forward how do I run GWASS. Next QPC2 version will probably be able to run it. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updates

2006-04-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > - One that is mostly a wrapper around SMSQ/E I/O traps (people looking > for a INPUT replacement could do worse than to check this out!) I've accidentally uploaded an old version of the channel toolkit in which the timeout behaviour of IOB_FLIN/IOF_FMUL

Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net updates

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Also, Jim's mail reminded me that I didn't publish the "new" Qascade (it's actually almost 6 months old already... time sure flies by!). Therefore, new Qascade online, including source. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe

Re: [ql-users] C68 wrappers for Home thing?

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
accordingly. Marcel ;/*-. ;| home.s | ;| | ;| Copyright (c) 2005 Jonathan Hudson & Wolfgang Lenerz

Re: [ql-users] New QL Owner

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jerome Vernet wrote: > Last but not least, I'm looking for QL emulators, I found qlux, wich > unfortunately doesn't want to compile under macOsX. For the black-box feeling, provided that you do have a PC, check out QemuLator or Qlay/QL2K. If you want to see into what the QL has evolved, check out

Re: [ql-users] QLib input problem

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: >> Fabrizio might be better off implementing iob.flin and iob.fmul in S*basic. >> With timeouts and error returns they are much more versatile. > Right. As mentioned in another announcement, I've now put a toolkit online that among other things wrap i

[ql-users] www.kilgus.net updates

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
I've finally managed to put some bits and pieces online. Mainly there are 3 new SBasic toolkits published: - One that is mostly a wrapper around SMSQ/E I/O traps (people looking for a INPUT replacement could do worse than to check this out!) - One that includes routines to convert to/from the HSV

Re: [ql-users] QLib input problem

2006-04-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > I believe QLib implements its own version of INPUT, PRINT and a few other > internal commands, so fixing them in SMSQE may not solve the problem. Unfortunately I have to shatter your believe ;-) I DID "fix" it and it DID work fine afterwards. Despite the error I even return the st

Re: [ql-users] QLib input problem

2006-04-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > INPUT #channel,t$ should fetch a string from a file. Indeed it does > unless the buffer is not large enough for the size of string. QLib's > default input buffer is 128 bytes like a JM or AH rom and can be > enlarged with a $$buff command on post-JM systems. Trouble is, if t

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 Keyboard question

2006-03-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > The numlock key has no effect on Q40 and Q60 as well as on QPC2. > This has annoyed me for so long that I eventually caused activation > by the use of Alt Gr (the right hand alt key). Numlock worked fine on QPC1 but was broken by some SMSQ/E rewrite, probably on the transitio

Re: [ql-users] qpti on Q40

2006-03-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Michael Grunditz wrote: > Is there a way to use more than 19000 baudrate in QTPI on a Q40 ? Tell QTPI not to set the baudrate, instead set it in Basic before starting QTPI. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] QPC2 Keyboard question

2006-03-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Timothy Swenson wrote: > When using QPC2, the keypad seems to always work as a number pad, even if > I turn the NumLock off. Is there a way to get the arrow and HOME keys > working with QPC2? I just checked and it looks like no, there currently doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Same with QXL

Re: [ql-users] Qdos, PE & EasyP4 & Compatablity

2006-03-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Sadler wrote: > I see when I assumed it was a hardware incompatability problem I > should have complained vigorously. No, complaining vigorously won't ever get you anything with a volunteer force. Saying "hey, did you notice it doesn't work", might. BTW Dilwyn did this and probably triggered

Re: [ql-users] UQLX

2006-03-22 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > Why don't we all lobby MArcel so that he makes a version od QPC > under Linux. That's all I'm waiting for to make the switch. For the whole 10 people who want this, 3 if which are prepared to pay for it? Sure, I'm right on it ;-) Wine is getting better by the day, I'd say

Re: [ql-users] Qdos, PE & EasyP4

2006-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Sadler wrote: > Make a version which finds out which ROM and behaves accordingly if > at all possible Due to architectural reasons pretty much infeasible. However, I've managed to fix JS/MG support, therefore my compromise is: Next release will work on JS, JSU, MGx and Minerva, but not AH, J

Re: [ql-users] Qdos, PE & EasyP4

2006-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > I'll try to make a new one next weekend. As it is, the very latest PE (i.e. unpublished, I created it 5 minutes ago) only seems to be Minerva compatible. But there even the background-updating seems to work fine, which is cute. I did expect JM and below to break with my b

Re: [ql-users] Qdos, PE & EasyP4

2006-03-21 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: > The download was from Dilwyn's PE connection but even using the PE stuff > that came with my latest Qpac2 update (1.42/Oct 03) Latest release of PE is always here: http://www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com/smsqe/Add1.html Maybe it's newer, who knows ;-) Cheers, Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] Qdos, PE & EasyP4

2006-03-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Bob Spelten wrote: > This message is for anyone involved in the development of the Pointer > Extensions, Qpac2 and EasyPointer. (Probably Marcel again) Go figure! > Now that the PE for Qdos is up to version 2 standard I wanted to see > if I can make Suqcess run under Qdos again. Version 1.19 did

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.12 released

2006-03-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Claude Mourier 00 wrote: > Is there any reason to turn off this feature (slow down for instance)? No, I don't know any, at least on QPC/Qx0. I just did that to play it safe. Performance on Aurora is still unknown, though. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing Li

Re: [ql-users] UQLX

2006-03-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Kjartan Geble Olsen wrote: > That produced a number of similar error messages, after removing 'regp1' > from the reported lines it will compile but not run: Tried issuing "make clean" before "make config" and "make"? Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List h

Re: [ql-users] UQLX

2006-03-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Kjartan Geble Olsen wrote: > QL_files.c:1005: error: conflicting types for `WriteMdvControl' > QL68000.h:430: error: previous declaration of `WriteMdvControl' > make: *** [QL_files.o] Error 1 Strange. Perhaps try removing "REGP1" in line 430 of QL68000.h Marcel __

[ql-users] SMSQ/E v3.12 and QPC2 v3.32 released

2006-03-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Due to circumstances not within my control it took a bit longer, but finally it is done! I've put the details on what's new and stuff on http://www.sinclairql.info/ Cheerio, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] UQLX

2006-03-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jeremy Taffel wrote: > I didn't have any problems until I switched from distributions using > Xfree86 to more recent ones that use Xorg. Version 10/22/02 seems to compile and work out of the box on my Gentoo system (gcc 3.3.6, Xorg X11 6.8.2). Marcel _

Re: [ql-users] The news of sinclairql.info in your website

2006-02-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I think, we have *one* group here and I find it a bit > circumstancially to need reading them both for any news. Most user do not subscribe to this list, for various reasons. A central site for announcements (and a place where announcements don't get drowned in any chatter) i

Re: [ql-users] XChange update

2006-02-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > BTW: Where can I find "sinclairql.info? Well, at www.sinclairql.info ;-) Technically it's a "blog" where every registered users can post any news. The nice thing is that is has an RSS feed, which means with an RSS enabled browser such as Opera and Firefox or an RSS client yo

Re: [ql-users] XChange update

2006-02-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Followers of sinclairql.info have already known this for a few days, > but in case anybody is not subscribed to its RSS-feed (why not?), > I did a new XChange release. Check out the details on > http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/xchange.html if you want. The config

[ql-users] XChange update

2006-02-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Followers of sinclairql.info have already known this for a few days, but in case anybody is not subscribed to its RSS-feed (why not?), I did a new XChange release. Check out the details on http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/xchange.html if you want. Marcel ___

Re: [ql-users] Sedit 2.26

2006-02-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > To make a quick&dirty solution, I can assemble a version for you with the > supposed colors, no problem. Until I find a safe and clean way to let the > user configure it. Standard QJump Configuration block. Quick and clean solution for formerly hard-coded stuff. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I have done several tests to find out, why Qmon doesn't work with my > BOOT, i.e. does not pop up by a call respr(0). Let's put it this way, why should it always pop up upon "call respr(0)"? You're basically jumping into random memory. This CAN result in an illegal instructio

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Thierry Godefroy wrote: > Note that, IIRC, QMON used to work fine when unpatched on QPC, despite the > fact the latter identifies its processor as being a 68010 (i.e. -with- VBR > support), like shows a peek($280A1) which returns $10... qmon does not rely on the system variable but does its own pr

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-04 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > does not work with v2.11 under QPC. If I start qmon, then "g" it stopped > with an illegal instruction in Supervisor mode. Of course it does. If you do the patch, the processor detection will wrongly identify QPC as a 68020, which has a different exception model. Marcel __

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > Err, qmon 0 probably never works (?) > qmon#0 shoud work, though Not what I meant. That is "qmon 0" as in "monitor job 0". In this case it's just a habit, jmon won't start without a job-number, while qmon does default to job 0 anyway. Only, with the latest version giving a

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Addendum: The qmon I have (2.13, please DON'T ask me what's different as there is no version history at all) does not work when typing "qmon 0" but "qmon" alone works and it seems to trap all errors. Will investigate when I have a bit more time. Marcel ___

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > I -believe- I dimly remember someone (Marcel?) changing something in Qmon so > it would work under SMSQE, recent versions. (but perhaps the recent change > for Q40 only???). No, wasn't me, no idea. Actually my current qmon sources (for the SBASIC qmon) don't even compile t

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Ok, and where can I get this version of Qmon? QPC neither has FPU nor VBR support, so it doesn't make any difference. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-02-02 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > I am afraid, he can't, as Qmon is owned by Freddy Vaccha, as far as > I know. A QJump program owned by Freddy? Anyway, I have no intentions of releasing it in any way, there's probably less than a handful of people that could have a use for it. I myself only use it to debug

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Seems so. I remember, that Qmon works whithout problems on the last > Atari version of SMSQ/E I have used 10 years ago. Do not know, why > it does not work now. Maybe Marcel can explain 8-). I've always used jmon and that works fine. No idea about qmon, but seems to work fine

Re: [ql-users] QMon under QPC2 - SMSQ/E

2006-01-31 Thread Marcel Kilgus
George Gwilt wrote: > I have found this too. Also if you start it by > > QMON#2 > > say, and then type > G > > the entire QPC2 screen goes black and you have crashed. In an official SMSQ/E release? That'd be somewhat bad and worth investigating. My unofficial releases sometimes include an inbuilt

Re: [ql-users] C1 Pascal manual, Xchange 3.90M

2006-01-20 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > Ralf Rekoendt has kindly prepared an Xchange 3.90M update and a DOC > file to go with it (Xchange patched by Marcel Kilgus), and this is > already available from my website: Okay, as I haven't seen the accompanying documentation until now, one remark: |

Re: [ql-users] XChange v3.90M

2006-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: >> XChange Archive now ignores the number of lines from it's printer_dat (or >> archv_dat or whatever you have called it) and do not issue an additional >> formfeed. > Only if the number of lines is set to 0! Plus, this is a mechanism in the generic

Re: [ql-users] XChange v3.90M

2006-01-17 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > The white menu borders are no longer written into the visible screen under > Modes 32 and 33 Actually I do hope they will be drawn onto the visible screen! Just at the right place and in the right mode ;-) Also, this will of course also work on Mode 16 (Aurora). > XChange Ar

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > Luckily, one of the key points in patents is that patents can not be > done on something that is obvious. Muahahaha, that was a good one! It might be nice in theory, but in real life I'm amazed nobody has patented "intake and output of oxygen containing gas in order to produ

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Morning Marcel, > > I take it you don't read Terry Pratchett novels then ? Well, I own every single book of the discworld series. Except the last one which is still hardcover only. And it did remind me of it, but these paper gave the word "footnote" a truly new meaning.

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
James Hunkins wrote: > One caution about reverse engineering; while it may be legal to do, > it is illegal to use 'borrowed' code in other code that you might > release or resell without permission. Of course, this is simple copyright stuff. This is also the reason why companies usually do "clea

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Marcel Kilgus wrote: > [...] P.S.: For anybody who's interested, I found the (mainly) US view on reverse engineering expressed in the paper "The law & economics of reverse engineering", written by two professors of the University of Berkley (dated from 2001): http://socrate

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-15 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Duncan Neithercut wrote: > In English law much depends on intent : In Germany most licenses are usually not worth the electrons they're stored with. There are several issues, but the main one is that the sales contract is agreed upon the time of sale, all licenses you get to see after you have bou

Re: [ql-users] QL News

2006-01-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
sinclairql wrote: > Takes part in this web. It is very simple. You only have to register and > write the news related to your programs or your own web site in order > that the community reads them. Nice effort. I will try updating it with news when I've got any (but so far I'm waiting for the pass

Re: [ql-users] Reverse engineering

2006-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Fabrizio Diversi wrote: > I will be delighted to read, maybe in QLT an article about how to > perform "reverse engineering" in old program, especially how you do > such thinks, what I mean is what program you use to monitor or > trace, or how to add more code to a program without having sources > e

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > That should be > spoolon '_nul': spooloff > or > spoolon '_par': spooloff Ah cool, that works. Though spooloff is still enough in this case. Good god, I think I've learned more about XChange within the last 48 hours than I ever wanted to know ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-13 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > spoolon "NUL" > spooloff This will create a file called "NUL_lis". I know because my original idea was just to say 'spoolon "par1"' before printing and spooloff afterwards, but that created a file "par1_lis". But the documentation states that you do not have to issue a spool

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Oh folks, don't know how this guy makes it all. What should I sayMarcel > "The Wizzard" Kilgus has done it again! Well, I somewhat like reverse engineering old code, I really should find a job where I get paid for this kind of stuff ;-) Finding the right piece of code wa

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: > Maybe you should contact Erling Jacobsen? I am sure he has the sources > somewhere? There are no sources. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Ralf Reköndt wrote: > Thanks a lot, but unfortunately, it does not work. The so patched XChange > just gave one line output (as before, when I tried setting the driver to 0 > number of lines, so nothing has changed in printing). Mysteriously, the > white borders appeared to write in the screen dire

Re: [ql-users] Problems with printing under XChange Archive

2006-01-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > If you or anyone else finds a soution to the Archive XChange FF > problem, let us know, please. Try setting the number of lines to 0 in the printer driver and apply this patch to your XChange: http://www.kilgus.net/soft/xchangepatch2.zip 100% untested, as I don't even know how to

Re: [ql-users] Sudoku. Was: screenshoots

2006-01-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > JG: > And a bow tie?? > > TF: > No - that would be: > > (8-)## Excuse me for interrupting this highly interesting conversation, but I'm curious, by what accident did you lose your ability to quote correctly? I certainly hope nobody else was injured in it ;-) Marcel ___

Re: [ql-users] Sudoku. Was: screenshoots

2006-01-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > Hope the last bit comes out OK. It makes a change from all that Greek! > Nope. I see you sent UTF-8. > These chrs did not display correctly in Jedit - which works with UTF8. > I suspect it was all mangled in transit. It didn't come out quite right on my side either (not sur

Re: [ql-users] Spam filters.

2006-01-09 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > Strangely enough, I got that email, thoug (update7.zip, 41 KB ??). Yes, quite strange indeed. > I've replied to you, did you get my reply? Sure, no problem. I don't use any filters ;-) Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://

Re: [ql-users] Spam filters.

2006-01-03 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Hm, I haven't had any problems so far, until just a few minutes ago my mail with all the SMSQ/E updates for Wolfgang bounced. Wolfgang, if you've another address besides the scp-paulet-lenerz.com one, please contact me again. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing

Re: [ql-users] screenshoots

2006-01-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: > ... I have just looked at the content. Me too. > Where was I in the photo of me? Even though I've never been there I recognize it's an Irish meeting. Who's that March freak? Must have been a bad hair day. ;-) Marcel ___ QL-Use

Re: [ql-users] screenshoots

2006-01-01 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: > 270 GET #3,ql_bpl > to > 270 GET #3,tmp% : ql_bpl = tmp% Actually I'd say the way to do it is 270 WGET #3,ql_bpl > PQIV - Claus Graf? Never used it, I suspect it can't handle QPC2 > screens as it was designed for Q40 picture handling. Mode 32 patch: http://www.mail-archive

Re: [ql-users] www.kilgus.net news

2005-12-30 Thread Marcel Kilgus
P Witte wrote: > Great stuff, Marcel! Thanks! You're welcome. More to come in a few days. BTW, congrats for being the first who got the "name/password" thing right at the first try ;-) Happy new year and stuff, Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://w

Re: [ql-users] Enhanced Pop

2005-12-27 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: > They have to same limitations as 'print'; '9,876,543,210.00' > (floating point) can't be displayed correctly with them and that's > what I want to be available, a way to display the value > 9876543210.00 as 9876543210.00 not as 9.87653954E9 Just a doodle, quick and

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