Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!

2012-09-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!

2012-09-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 19/09/12 14:03, Norman Dunbar wrote: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Actually, that should have been the following: 1. sudo apt-get update 2. sudo apt-get upgrade 3. sudo raspi-update select the update option which updated raspi-config and exits. 4. sudo rasp

Re: [Ql-Users] Fwd: Re: QL Today Volume 17 starts

2012-09-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 19/09/12 14:45, Bob Spelten wrote: This means that the Times typeface on a iOS/OS-X system runs wider than under W$. Getting the intended typeface is still a weak point in web design. Google Web Fonts any good? https://www.google.com/webfonts Cheers, Norm -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi gets Turbo mode!

2012-09-19 Thread Norman Dunbar
Overclocking and overvolting without voiding your warranty! Details at http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Y

Re: [Ql-Users] QLtoday Volume 17 Issue 1

2012-09-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
- authors, editors, volunteers etc. Thanks. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
PC* just because I listened to an audio CD Agreed! Cheers, Norm. PS. Hope you are well. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 _

Re: [Ql-Users] A3 scanner

2012-09-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
ince at least 2009 from what I can find. Cheers, Norm. PS. Yes, I'm not an Apple fan, not since the "Apple ][e" - which I used in college and coveted, but couldn't afford. It had two 5.5" floppy drives "built in". -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
PS. If you are running a vncserver, you have to stop it first, make changes to .xsession, restart it and log back in to the GUI. It seems that the user's .xsession gets loaded at startup of the VNC Server daemon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered ad

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-09-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
ating the same file in everyone's $HOME, create it in /etc/X11/Xsession.d and call it startup instead. Well, that's the theory at least, I haven't tried the latter version myself. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
bug was, the freezer started up and hung the whole system. That was irritating to say the least. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
the above page as well! Sigh! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
x27;t really understand that. They will. Just as soon as their Raspberry Pi arrives and they want to plug it into the TV! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company N

Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux

2012-08-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
se were "urgent" and "necessary". I'd put a bit of text in saying "are you still reading? Claim your free £5.00 note from Norman". Still haven't paid anyone yet! :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe Ho

Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux

2012-08-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
you can press TAB to make sure the highlight is over it, then press ENTER to activate it. It's a ploy by MS to make you pretend to have read the agreement before you simply click OK! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardsha

Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux

2012-08-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
pc2.exe & (The ~ is short for /home/yourname and the & means run it in batch, freeing up your terminal session. After a quick configuration of the ~/.wine directory, you will be shown the first dialogue for Qpc where you can choose devices and so on. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunba

Re: [Ql-Users] qpc2/linux

2012-08-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
exe file to run it, if it request you to specify a program to open the file with, choose wine. That is all you need to do. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi emulation

2012-08-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
I hope not!) but uqlx is already running on the Pi. Emulated and on real hardware. A few of us who mentioned having/getting a Pi on this list, have been volunteered to do some testing. When it's fully ready, Tobias will be releasing it into the wild! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman D

[Ql-Users] QStripper update

2012-07-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
source code required, just recompile on the Pi. Took a lot longer than I'm used to though! The joys of Qt! Anyone got a spare Mac they might want to send me and I'll do a version for Mac as well? ;-) http://qstripper.sourceforge.net/#downloads Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-07-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning John, On 16/07/12 22:23, QL-MyLink (f/fh) wrote: Thanks Norman for helping a lazy bloke into the Raspberry Pi websites! No worries. Have you got one yet? I've just spent more time in there than certain persons have recently wasted in QJewels ;) That would be Dilwyn in Wales

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi

2012-07-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
http://themagpi.com/ is a website for a pdf Raspberry Pi magazine. Now at issue 3. Back issues are available. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Book

2012-06-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 30/06/12 10:27, Norman Dunbar wrote: It's not even out yet, but is already the best selling book in Computers and number 56 in all books on Amazon. And now, it's up to number 17 in all books! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorp

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi Book

2012-06-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
Using the above link will cause Amazon to pay additional money to the Raspberry Pi Foundation - which is a charity. You can read a bit about the book here http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1498 Cheers, Norm. PS. Going offline or intermittent for a while. :-( -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Co

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

2012-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
didn't get a reply. I sent it to jmerz (at) j - m - s (dot) com. I sent it to Marcel at the same time and I know he received it as I have had a reply from him. I'll send it again, maybe it got caught in your spam trap. It was sent on the 8th May this year. Cheers, Norm. -- Nor

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday arrived

2012-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
g wet due to the slightly damp weather we are having at the moment. I had to sit it on the radiator to dry out before I could read it! Did you ever get my email about the QPTR manual? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now

2012-06-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
numerous places). I've also added a section on how you can create Kindle ebooks (*.mobi) after processing a file with QStripper. > Anyway, many thanks for the Windoze 7 64 bit version which I use, > invaluable. Welcome. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registe

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now

2012-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
Qstripper 1.07 is now available for Linux 32 bit. http://qstripper.sourceforge.net Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Where has Knoware gone?

2012-06-20 Thread Norman Dunbar
TP, hm. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Withdrawing from the QL Market

2012-06-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
oystick module) which has similarly sold well. This is a good thing, but I'm not so sure it would work in the QL realm, due to numbers of original sales, and comparing physical QLs still in use with those that are in use on assorted emulators on PCs and Macs. Just my £0.02. Cheers

[Ql-Users] qStripper - 1.07 available now

2012-06-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Linux 64 bit. Have fun. http://qstripper.sourceforge.net Cheers, Norm. PS. My Windows 7 install has finally decided to become "not genuine". Seeing as how it was installed on the laptop when it was brand new, I'm just a little surprised. I only use it for qStripper builds anyway.

Re: [Ql-Users] Easyptr manual

2012-06-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
heers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum

2012-06-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
f it's the same table each time. I'd be thinking of shutting down, taking a backup, and recreating the table (at the very minimum) and reloading it again from the backup - assuming MySql lets you do that - I'm more of a Firebird and Oracle man myself! Have fun. Cheers, Nor

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Forum

2012-06-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
n the phpbb_sessions table that needs to be fixed. If Rob or Pete are reading this, perhaps you could take a look to see? This might help http://community.mybb.com/thread-32115.html where there are instructions on using phpMyAdmin to fix tables in a MySql database. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunb

[Ql-Users] QStripper included in the Softpedia software database

2012-06-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Looks like QStripper has become quite famous! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 Original Message Subject: QStripper included

[Ql-Users] QStripper updated to 1.06

2012-05-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
. The project website at http://qstripper.sourceforge.net has had a slight makeover too. Enjoy. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Errors with uQLx on Raspberry Pi

2012-05-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 24/05/12 15:38, Malcolm Lear wrote: Yes, just received mine. Odd thing is its got a Samsung CPU. Are you sure? The chip on top is the RAM but the CPU is underneath it. They are piggy backed. The CPU is a Broadcom device. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
destination AND your assembler quietly converts the MOVE to MOVEA. Just to make things "interesting". Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] French School Holidays?

2012-05-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Jimmy, On 14/05/12 18:44, QL2K wrote: Let me know to get a drink if you're near Paris :D A kind offer - thanks. I think we are heading for either Corsica or Languedoc (again). Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richar

Re: [Ql-Users] French School Holidays?

2012-05-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
hool zones. Ok, thanks very much (merci beaucoup). We are trying to sort out a holiday and avoid the "kids on holiday" period. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28

[Ql-Users] French School Holidays?

2012-05-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Any QL-ers in France just now? Can you tell me when the French schools break for holidays in Summer please. Thanks. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05

2012-05-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning (!) Tony, It is Norman's time that is worng (from the header): Norman: 01:30 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) Dilwyn: 01:54 PDT Maybe, Norman, you are on SST (Scottish Summer Time) (8-)# Scottish summer time? That's when it rains then! No, my laptop is set to an NTP server so t

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
is quickly becoming the "Ford Edzel" of the browser world. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.05

2012-05-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 09/05/12 16:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening all, qStripper has been updated to version 1.05. The project web page, which has links to the download pages, has been updated (http://qstripper.sourceforge.net) and there are files online for Linux 64 bit and Windows 32 and 64 bit. You can

Re: [Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!

2012-05-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 10/05/12 23:11, Malcolm Cadman wrote: Now we just need a nice 'icon' to go with name ... :-) Funny you should mention that Malcolm, I've just uploaded one! And it has been incorporated into version 1.05 of the application as well. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman D

[Ql-Users] qStripper has a new web site!

2012-05-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Why not? Sourceforge offer me free web sites, a forum, and lots of other stuff like bug trackers etc. I've taken advantage of the web site option and created http://qstripper.sourceforge.net which is a dedicated web site for qStripper. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consul

Re: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches

2012-05-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
e pressure up and then a huge blue flame! It was a big brass thing with a decent reservoir for fuel, taps and pumps, possibly a "Primus" but I'm not sure. I think he still has it, somewhere! We used to to melt lead for fishing weights. Also melted a few of my mothers old pan

[Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.04

2012-05-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
OS version. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

2012-05-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 02/05/12 22:14, Malcolm Cadman wrote: As the great Bob (Marley) sang ... no WMAN no cry . :-) And we all know how Bob Marley likes his donuts? We Jammin. (You started it!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

[Ql-Users] Bug in WM_ENAME

2012-05-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
turn. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

2012-05-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
good. Thanks again. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://ww

Re: [Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

2012-05-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 02/05/12 09:55, Norman Dunbar wrote: It seems that SETW, not the latest version, defines a WORD for the window flag byte and the shadow depth byte. When I typed the above, what I was meaning to say was that SETW combines the two bytes (flag and shadow depth) into a single word, not that it

[Ql-Users] WMAN Weirdness!

2012-05-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
y, I set the word to $82 (aka 130) whihc set the shadow depth to 130 instead of 2. The word should have been $8002 (aka 32270). So, setting a "bonkers" shadow depth was the cause of my problem, the shadow was hitting the window limits as I moved the window around while the window itse

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
ng, setting my oserr to 666 before every system call shows that every dbas routine, that I tested, seems to reset my oserr to 0 if it worked. Sigh. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Ki

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
s that it has been amended to compile under C68 versions 3.02 and 3.04 and the latest, 4.5 Beta. I may install an older version to see what's going on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Rich

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
s etc will not be there. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://ww

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
web site they advise sticking with 2,x as there are more programs compatible with that version. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company N

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 21/04/12 09:35, Norman Dunbar wrote: Python is pretty nifty in it's ability to coerce variables Oh no! The apostrophe! How did it get there? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire U

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
ard coding paths to perl, or python, or shells etc by hard coding the path to "env" instead - but I rather suspect that env *is* in a standard location. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yor

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
a lot. Windows users can get an installer from http://python.org/download. Have fun. ;-) ... I think QLiberator at least can compile without line numbers (never actually tried that). Perhaps George could tell us if Turbo can too. I though Turbo read the source code from the loaded progra

Re: [Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - starts

2012-04-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 17/04/12 20:33, John Alexander wrote: My RPi arrived yesterday ;) I don't know you personally John, but I think I hate you already! ;-) Have fun with your Pi. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 17/04/12 10:46, Norman Dunbar wrote: The compilation worked, but listed calls to strfnd as having the wrong number of arguments. I had three, as per online references, but it seems the definition in string_h only has two : strfnd(const char *, const char *) So, I fixed my code to remove

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
ker wrote: -Original Message- From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users- boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: 16 April 2012 16:08 To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Subject: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide Sorry, I've pulled this one out from t

Re: [Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
that large. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.

[Ql-Users] C68 and the Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
n the position of being called upon to maybe do some work on this program and being completely unable! Maybe I'll have to rewrite it in assembler for the PE! (I jest by the way!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
PC booting up from power on, isn't it? It is, yes, booting even from hibernation too. But you only boot once, unless you are running Windows and/or you are Dilwyn (!) it's how responsive it is when it's running that counts. Cheers, Norm. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:10 PM,

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
roblems as everyone, JS fails. One thing is exceedingly clear, we didn't half put up with really slow responses back in 1984 didn't we? God it's slow in QL mode! ;-) -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshir

Re: [Ql-Users] Quanta Library Guide

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Dunbar
k again! I think, also, that the database_h file #includes a file from C68 named ansi_h but I don't see that file any more. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Ditto for SMSQ/e of course! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://ww

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
is in the DBAS library or Q-Emulator I think, especially as it opens fine in other ROMs. Difficult one to solve I think. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company N

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 13/04/12 16:01, Rich Mellor wrote: I have just checked - it works on Q-emulator with Minerva, but not with a JS ROM for some reason Hmmm. I developed it on a JS ROM, all those years ago! I've just checked in QPC, VER$ says "HBA" - so not a JS ROM here then. Cheers, N

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Quanta library. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
s is valid. Works perfectly on QPC. Although my libguide is very old! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] Fw: query

2012-04-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
7;m too old for this stuff nowadays? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Qstripper updated - now handles PC Quill files.

2012-04-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 05/04/12 20:11, Dilwyn Jones wrote: As Norman could tell, I was impressed (not) ... but then he's the IT pro and knows best (plus he can out-argue me hands down every time). I didn't think we ever argued Dilwyn, do we? I tried logging in to SourceForge from Windows 7 with IE ear

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-04-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning John, > ... My memory is not too clear on the second reprint as I was not involved. I think the Quanta committee paid someone to do a limited number of photocopied versions. The quality was abominable. I think I've got one of those then! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar D

[Ql-Users] Qstripper updated - now handles PC Quill files.

2012-04-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
without prompting - which I do have in Firefox and I have it configured to always prompt. I'd be interested in hearing what your downloading experiences are, if you have problems reading the screen, the ads are intrusive, no need to tell me that! And so on. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Du

Re: [Ql-Users] A touch of the Gwilts

2012-04-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
, With my sense of humour, I might have given the thread a subject of "Gwilt Complex?" or similar! I'll get my coat! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company N

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-04-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
the original copyright holder. Now, given my limited legal qualifications - I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV either - but it sounds to me that we can get permission from Quanta or Jan Jones? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thor

Re: [Ql-Users] Anyone know what this is for ....

2012-03-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 29/03/12 14:02, Norman Dunbar wrote: I *think* it could be italics on/off, but I'm not sure and could be making it up! That wasn't a bad guess, thanks to Dilwyn I can confirm that code 19 aka Hex(13) is indeed an italics toggle control code. Thanks all. Cheers, Norm. -- Nor

[Ql-Users] Anyone know what this is for ....

2012-03-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
nd could be making it up! Does anyone know? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List htt

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
t;harrassy" and maybe turn them against what we were trying to do, so I dropped it. Dave Ok, thanks Dave. Maybe one day Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Billy, On 28/03/12 18:31, Billy wrote: Do you have an Ereader too Norman? (;-) I do indeed. I have two. My iRiver Story, the one with the keyboard, is excellent in most cases, but doesn't do pdf very well. I use that one for my business books. The best thing about this one is

Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
lable..." Who knows, I might find time to do something with it myself .. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] Quill

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
oment. However that's simply because I don't have any of these files. If you have any that you are able to send me, privately, then I'll take a look and see what I can do. HTH Cheers, Norm. PS. Privately = norman (at) dunbar-it (dot) co (dot) uk. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consult

[Ql-Users] Jan Jones

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
There was talk on this list some time ago, about someone converting the Jan Jones SuperBasic book to pdf. (Was it Dave Park?) I was wondering if any progress had been made? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] UK Postal Increases

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
lwyn Jones, that was s bad, it came out the the other side as good! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Comp

Re: [Ql-Users] UK Postal Increases

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
, it should be dropping its prices. Not pricing people away. Just my £0.02. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi Delays?

2012-03-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
informed. Looks like the Chinese board builders substituted an off spec part for the network jacks. Wonder why they would do that - the specs (apparently) clearly required a socket with magnetics built in. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi Power Source

2012-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
700mA mini usb phone charger. The 700 mA assumes "high power" attachments etc connected to the Pi. You can use a full sized usb jobby and a usb->mini adaptor. It's all on the web site. You supply a USB keyboard, USB mouse, Mini-USB power supply and a TV of HDMI TV/Monitor. HTH Che

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 07/03/12 10:44, Lee Privett wrote: Hi Norman, did she actually say to pseudo customers f off?:) I think that may have been a tad unprofessional. I do know that it's what she wanted to tell them though! She was also one of the staff who had to find the magazines mis-replaced in the

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
ne to miss an opportunity to vent spleen! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
e magazines and either buy one or foff! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
Microsoft. As is most of government. We are doomed to repeat the errors of our predecessors if we never learn. And yes, "we" are cynical, with good reason I'm afraid! ;-) Hope you get your Pi soon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered a

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
far simpler with Arduino! Schools have mirrored and followed almost exactly all of the previous mistakes that industry first followed. Have they mirrored or have they been pushed in that direction by politicians and other do-gooders with an agenda? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
language I suspect. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
, not just what they get in ICT at school. Still ... lots of potential fun to come in the future . Indeed. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number

Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi

2012-02-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
into the wilds went "well". Interest was so great that both Farnell's and RS discovered an effective DDOS "attack" on their servers this morning. The tinkerers are taking over again! I've got my order in - I missed the first 100,000 even at 06:25 this AM. Cheers

Re: [Ql-Users] Nascent project: Cross-platform SuperBASIC derivative.

2012-02-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
un." which makes me think that the following is a non-loop: FOR x = 10 TO 0 STEP -1 NEXT x I think it should read "If the WHILE expression evaluates to zero, or the current value is equal to the TO value, on entry ...". Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultant

Re: [Ql-Users] Ser-USB 2.0 Drivers Released + Ser-USB End of Life Announcement

2012-02-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
tory, web site, etc for the project - provided it's Open Source. That way, you can control what is in it. There would be less chance for various versions dotted about all over the place that way. Just a thought. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered addr

Re: [Ql-Users] Wherefore art thou, SMSQ?

2012-01-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
tever is last in the inbuilt list) and anything higher than that address is an extra? It could work? Maybe? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Comp

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