RE: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-24 Thread Claude Mourier 00
At last someone positive ! Claude -Message d'origine- De : P Witte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : vendredi 24 mai 2002 00:35 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [ql-users] Source Code This license debacle goes over my head in part as I find it difficult to imagine where some peopl

[ql-users] RE: Back on the list

2002-05-24 Thread Claude Mourier 00
I realise I don't have renewed because I don'find the subscription form. Can I have one by mail ? (perhaps it would be a good idea to find a small page corner to insert such a form in evry issue ?) Claude -Message d'origine- De : Jochen Merz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : jeudi 23

[ql-users] Forwarded on behalf of Nasta

2002-05-24 Thread Nicholls, Bruce
Title: Forwarded on behalf of Nasta On 22/05/02 at 22:37 Richard Zidlicky wrote: >> The support for a platform per se is not nor should ever be part of an OS >> core - the ability to add this support externally SHOULD. > that would be nice. However we are in the position that all machine s

Re: [ql-users] RE: Back on the list

2002-05-24 Thread Jochen Merz
Dear Claude, > I realise I don't have renewed because I don'find the subscription form. Can > I have one by mail ? On its way to you :-) Anybody else needs one? > (perhaps it would be a good idea to find a small page corner to insert such > a form in evry issue ?) Very good idea. We shall print

[ql-users] Re: New list, new topic!

2002-05-24 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 23/05/02 08:45:35 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me how to read the total screen size from either assembly or 'C'? Thanks, Jim You really ought to get hold of the SMS/QDOS Reference Manual from Jochen - that explains how to do it. In the meant

Re: [ql-users] Forwarded on behalf of Nasta

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Zidlicky
> >> programmers writing the [platform] support... should not contribute that > >> support in the first place. The part that they should contribute are the > >> changes necessary to have this support as an external module, AND THAT'S > IT. > > >sort of BIOS? No problem but the problems with ge

Re: [ql-users] Source Code (fwd)

2002-05-24 Thread Dave
I posted this a couple of days ago, during the changeover, and never got a copy of it back, so I am reposting it, as nobody commented on it so I don't know if the idea was out there... On Wed, 22 May 2002, ZN wrote: > It is really a cooperative effort, and the key to keeping it that way is >

Re: [ql-users] Re: New list, new topic!

2002-05-24 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 06:21 AM 5/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 23/05/02 08:45:35 GMT Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>Can anyone tell me how to read the total screen size from either >>assembly or 'C'? >> >>Thanks, >>Jim > > >You really ought to get hold of the SMS/QDOS Reference Man

Re: [ql-users] Forwarded on behalf of Nasta

2002-05-24 Thread P Witte
Nasta writes: <> > Not really a 'BIOS' but rather a more modularized version of SMSQ. For > instance, not every concievable platform needs a floppy drive. Try pulling > out floppy support only from SMSQ, see how far you get. For things like > that one should hardly need to regenerate the whole b

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-24 Thread Roy Wood
In message <33856F0F.9033.67CA8A@localhost>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Sure, so go ahead, fix them when you get the source code. > >> > Under the licence, the source can be distributed as long as it's >> >not >> > charged for in any way. The distribution of binaries that is not >> >free is >>

Re: [ql-users] Re: Back on the list

2002-05-24 Thread Roy Wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Please forgive my confusion, but I do not understand why a reseller would >only sell certain versions of SMSQ. I am sure there's a good reason, but >some quarters are highly suspicious and may infer meaning behind this that >does

Re: [ql-users] Re: Back on the list

2002-05-24 Thread Roy Wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jochen Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Even when various dealers, Miracle, TF Systems, >me, were selling competing products (ATARIs, SuperHermes, >QXL) we ALWAYS treated each other fair, were and are still >friends - and we all worked TOGETHER in the same directi

Re: [ql-users] RE: Back on the list

2002-05-24 Thread Roy Wood
In message <76D9F06BB0F9D411B65500B0D079D90A15F151@NTSRV01>, Claude Mourier 00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >I realise I don't have renewed because I don'find the subscription form. Can >I have one by mail ? >(perhaps it would be a good idea to find a small page corner to insert such >a form in