At 10:13 PM 6/27/2001 -0400, Nasta wrote:
>SCSI is another related example. A SCSI host adapter does nothing of
>itself, but may have many different devices connected to it, that all
>require treatment by essentially different drivers.
Just to expand on what Nasta said, different drivers (such as
>> Well, I hate to be a party breaker, but guess what: all standard CD file
>> systems have a deeper directory structure and/or longer names than the
QL
>> is capable of handling with it's 36 character path+name limit.
> Wrong! ISO9660 is limited to 32 chars in filenames (path name included)
> an
IAn Interesting discussion this and some very good points raised by all.
I see, as usual that Thierry has his finger firmly on the pulse here and
is way ahead of most of us. When we discussed CD drivers at Eindhoven
last weekend we were suggesting that it be ported to the Qubide and that
a new
Richard Zidlicky wrote:
>Afaic all publicly known specs about QXL filesystems are scattered
>through UQLX, qxltool and qxl_fschk sources.
I think Gerhard Plavec has also put some information on his Austrian
QL site, address available on my 'ql links' page on my website
--
Dilwyn Jones
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Nasta wrote:
>Let's also remember that users that do not have a Q40/60 may also
>want CD access. Not everyone has (or for that matter can have or wants)
>Linux on their QL compatible hardware.
I think most of us are well aware of this. *If* a plain QDOS/SMSQ
CD-recording software gets written, t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Ack! Okay okay okay! I will wait to see what "Simon says" (sic!). Anyway,
>after running the software AGAIN on QPC I have to say that I am amazed how
>well these were written in order to withstand SMSQ/E - 96 Mbytes o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Q Branch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Zidlicky
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN
>>Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
, Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>-Original Message-
>From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] Virus alert (No, not a hoax !)
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>>> I don't run M$ mail prog
Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> I do not know the definitive answer, but judging the design it was
> pretty likely first used on Atari-QL or something like that, long
> before QXL card.
Right, IIRC it's identical with the SCSI partition format.
Marcel
At 10:16 ðì 27/6/2001 +, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I would concur with Tony - Freddy would certainly sue, all depends on if he
>still actually owns the copyright or not, or they were indeed time limited
>and
>have reverted to Simon et al as the authors.
>
>Simon doesn't subscribe to this list,
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:27:49PM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
> At 06:08 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the QXL.WIN partitions were created in
> order TT not to have to access the Int13H DOS calls for the QXL card
> IIRC QXL.WIN means QXL Winchester
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:42:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was going to suggest accessing unsupported filesystems by reading the
> device as a stream, but seem to recall trying something similar in the
> past and finding that because the partition it represents is a fixed
> size (an
Ahem, I *think& I understood that :o)
Norman.
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On Mercredi 27 Juin 2001 05:30, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> I think the discussion about what format the CD driver should support
> is a mute point. Thierry will implement what he can/wants to implement.
> We really can only offer suggestions.
I will not have enough time to implement all I want to
Hi All,
I would concur with Tony - Freddy would certainly sue, all depends on if he
still actually owns the copyright or not, or they were indeed time limited and
have reverted to Simon et al as the authors.
Simon doesn't subscribe to this list, but I have forwarded this email to him for
com
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 21:15:15, you wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>At 12:02 AM 6/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Maybe Simon (N) Goodwin or Chas Dillon can shed some light into this?
>
>They should know the status. I believe that most of the programs had a
>time clause to them and are now ow
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