Re: [Ql-Users] Aurora discussion

2011-09-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
lwin.pro in QT Creator, copile, run. Open a qxl.win style "hard disc" and explore Again, works fine on Windows and Linux, be interesting to know if it works on MACs too. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw L

Re: [Ql-Users] Huge Sinclair repository on DVD out now!

2011-09-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
able.) I do accept that this is a developer pre-release though. 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] SD -> floppy

2011-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
ot; on Linux reads a floppy - it seems to know to read both sides and happily creates the image. Once you have the image on your QL, zip it up and whizz it over the wherever you want it to be and test it? Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House

Re: [Ql-Users] SD -> floppy

2011-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
that to an HD disc. Then do the second half to another HD disc. Transfer to destination, concatenate both files together again and Robert is your Mother's Brother! Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

2011-10-06 Thread Norman Dunbar
a bastard! Cheers, Norm. PS. The last Apple thing I liked enough to use was the Apple ][. With twin 5.5" floppies - then were the days! -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

2011-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
9,1 and so on. This does create an image of the correct size, but I can't get the QL to read it once converted. Probably because you have read a whole side at once. Then the other. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Ric

Re: [Ql-Users] Dilwyn's scanner

2011-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
he Scientific Linux VM and everything else connects "over the network" to it. I was never a great fan of VMs and especially VMWare (I used it at work - very slow on a Win 2000 host - but VirtualBox, I have found, to be about the best there is. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] Making an image of an ED Disk Drive

2011-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
is currently missing in action, but should arrive soon. 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-Us

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

2011-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
(ok, possibly nearly well) documented. Sinclair was the best, from the ZX81 (In my case) through the Spectrum to the QL, all came with excellent manuals. Just my £0.02. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West York

Re: [Ql-Users] OT - The great man - Steve Jobs

2011-10-10 Thread Norman Dunbar
than the specific hardware, in my opinion. This is why I was a little dismayed when the Raspberry Pi project decided to drop the idea of commissioning a tutorial and technical manual to go with the device. Bad news! And kind of defeats the purpose of the Pi - to encourage the "bedroom coder"

Re: [Ql-Users] S*BASIC

2011-10-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening all, I _think_ that the term was first used by Norman Dunbar to refer to either SuperBASIC or SBASIC, but don't know in what context it was used. Did I? I was first (as far as I remember) to use the term QDOSMSQ but S*Basic wasn't one of mine - I don't think. No do

Re: [Ql-Users] QL with working 5.25" disk drive

2011-10-28 Thread Norman Dunbar
Evening Rich, as far as I remember, the drives do take a standard PC power supply of 12v and 5v through one of those large (ish) block connectors. Not sure if modern poweer supplies have those connectors anymore though! Apologies for top posting. This tablet doesnt do any other kind. Sigh. Ch

Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

2011-11-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
L-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- 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

Re: [Ql-Users] Deadline approaches

2011-11-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 08/11/11 20:24, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Geoff, I believe you already have something from me that was held over from the last issue? I certainly hope so. Could have sworn I sent that to Geoff and not to the list. Oh well, my secrets are out - if I have any! ;-) Cheers, Norm. PS

Re: [Ql-Users] QPC2/QPCPrint translates

2011-11-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
file to an assembly routine that reads the input, translates it and writes to the output, the output being the printer device or a channel opened to it via QPCPrint? Good luck. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane P

Re: [Ql-Users] QaLendar 2012

2011-12-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
2012.docx version please and I'll give it a try - there isn't one on the web-site (that I can see - and I looked!) at the moemnt. Thanks. I'm thinking that maybe Office can't do docx->doc transformations very well! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultant

Re: [Ql-Users] n00b alert & an introduction of sorts

2011-12-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
John (in Wales) (Anyone seen a Higgs boson hereabouts toady (!)?) I was sure I saw one, around 126 GeV. I could have been mistaken though. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom

Re: [Ql-Users] QLToday V16 I2

2011-12-15 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote: The QL Today team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a quick proofread. Is now a bad time to mention some errors then? ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe Hou

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
tually became a huge blob of "used" ink. Very, very, very mucky indeed! However, it did solve the riddle of where all the ink went! Happy 2010 everyone. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey Wes

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Bryan, Happy 2010 everyone. Cheers, Norm. You must have binged too much, Norman. My calendar is headed 2012 Bugger! What happened to the last two years! ;-) Yes, ok, 2012, I admit it. But today is my first day back on the keyboard after a fortnight away. Try again: Happy 2012

Re: [Ql-Users] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
his must also have dislodged the print head as it never printed from then on. I did not feel at all guilty about the stain! Nice! I have to admit to being quite amazed at how much sponge could be fitted inside a pretty small printer casing - and just how much ink it could hold. Yuk! Cheers, Nor

[Ql-Users] Raspberry Pi - was QL compatible Printers

2012-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 03/01/12 16:35, Bryan Horstmann wrote: I see that Raspberrypi are putting the first 10 boards on ebay. They have done this to raise money for the charity. Have you checked the prices yet? Board number 10, the first one to go on eBay, is over £2000 already. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] eBooks

2012-01-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
ted them to ePub which it does. Most worked fine. Then my colleagues at work bought me a Kindle when I left - and that does read mobi format - so I use that instead! http://calibre-ebook.com/ is where you need to be. Happy to help if you have problems. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar

Re: [Ql-Users] eBooks

2012-01-03 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 compatible Printers

2012-01-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
10 currently at £2100. 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] QL compatible Printers

2012-01-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
. I have just realised the ambiguity of "IPA" - but 4% alcohol is too little (8-)# Yes, and the malted stuff and whatever sugars are left in the beer would most likely be unwise of a print head. ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorp

Re: [Ql-Users] Test

2012-01-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
ve actually carried out 1 to 5 AND 20 which meant that we should have failed! Eventually, I wore him down and he agreed that I was correct. Sometimes, I wonder if my mother and father were married at the time of my conception! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Regis

Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
a shout back if you have problems and I'll do what I can. I use Mint to demonstrate to Windows users what they are missing (!!!) in a real operating system that is completely user friendly but not for my day job which involves other flavours of Linux such as Red Hat Enterprise and Suse

Re: [Ql-Users] Linux user please

2012-01-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
ion on the site too. 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.d

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

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] 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] 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] 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

2012-03-02 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

2012-03-05 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

2012-03-05 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

2012-03-07 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

2012-03-07 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
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
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 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 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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
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

[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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

2012-04-13 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
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
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
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] 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] 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
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,

[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] 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.

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

2012-04-17 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] 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] 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

2012-04-21 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
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
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
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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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

[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
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] 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] 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 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] 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

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 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

2012-05-13 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

[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

[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

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

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] 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

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