Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
Την Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:34:51 -0500,ο(η) Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > > Have you tried a gentle tap on the hard drive ? > > Sometimes the head has not settled properly, particularly if it was > moved around. > Not the case on 2.5" (or smaller drives). If its gone, well it's gon

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >> AFAIAA, 'C' was a development of the [typeless] language 'B' which was a >> development of the language 'BCPL' (available at one time for the BBC >> micro). > >Intersetingly enough, and if my memory serves me correctly, wasn't BCPL >ava

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
Την Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:56:05 -0500,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: >>> No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it >>> work. No guarantees though. >> I had trouble making QPC work with Wine but with the commercially >> available Wi

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
Την Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:38:49 -0500,ο(η) Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > > I had trouble making QPC work with Wine but with the commercially > available WineX it did work fine. And of course WineX *IS* now Cedega :-) ___

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: >> No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it >> work. No guarantees though. > I had trouble making QPC work with Wine but with the commercially > available WineX it did work fine. Yes, but I have heard that the latest Wine0.9 release (after 12 years

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
Την Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:12:04 -0500,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Luckily, I have my QPC 'on a stick' so that still works, well, it >> will when I get the disc replaced and everything restored. I don't >> suppose there's ever going to be a QPC-Linux

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Luckily, I have my QPC 'on a stick' so that still works, well, it > will when I get the disc replaced and everything restored. I don't > suppose there's ever going to be a QPC-Linux by any chance ? No. But you can try latest Wine or, even better, Cedega to make it work.

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-11 Thread Norman
> AFAIAA, 'C' was a development of the [typeless] language 'B' which was a > development of the language 'BCPL' (available at one time for the BBC > micro). Intersetingly enough, and if my memory serves me correctly, wasn't BCPL available from MetaComCo (hope I got the capitalisation correct !)

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-10 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Newson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Malcolm Cadman wrote: > >... >> I seem recall that the "C" language, for example, emerged as a new >> variant computer language, as it was not "A" or "B" - which already >> existed. So it became "C". > >AFAIAA, 'C' was a d

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-10 Thread Robert Newson
Malcolm Cadman wrote: ... > I seem recall that the "C" language, for example, emerged as a new > variant computer language, as it was not "A" or "B" - which already > existed. So it became "C". AFAIAA, 'C' was a development of the [typeless] language 'B' which was a development of the languag

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-08 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Newson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >... > >> dos is perfectly legal, as in dos and don'ts. According to the Oxford >> Talking Dictionary Unix is a proprietary name, yet they spell it as I have >> done. Although I suppose whoever owns the name can spell it howe

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-08 Thread Robert Newson
... > dos is perfectly legal, as in dos and don'ts. According to the Oxford > Talking Dictionary Unix is a proprietary name, yet they spell it as I have > done. Although I suppose whoever owns the name can spell it however they > like, its not afaik an acronym, so by writing UNIX all youre doing i

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-07 Thread David Tubbs
At 18:11 07/11/2005 -0500, you wrote: > I had spelled "Vegitarian" this way and the spell checker for I think if you use the UK dic' not US, at least in Office 2000 it picks it up. Default installation is US. I am no great speller and I thought "spelled" looked a bit magical - seemingly both ac

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-07 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
Την Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:45:47 -0500,ο(η) John Gilpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε: > On a more serious note, I noticed that whilst preparing a list for the > QL is > 21 Dinner, I had spelled "Vegitarian" this way and the spell checker for > Word 2003 did not pick it up as wrong. Having had the e

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-07 Thread John Gilpin
quot;Ignore" it to show you the problem. John Gilpin. - Original Message - From: "David Tubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT] > At 19:36 07/11/2005 +, you w

Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-07 Thread David Tubbs
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Re: [ql-users] Spell Checking [OT]

2005-11-07 Thread P Witte
Malcolm Cadman writes: > >>> Malcom > >>> > >> I am on a Unix based machine. > >> I was spell checking the word not the code and I just wondered why > >> Unix wasn't in he dictionary. > > > > Umm ... I see ... :-) > > > > I guess it could be conspiracy ... :-) > > > > Impossible :-) > ispell & asp