Re: [ql-users] No Virus Now - Maybe

2003-12-03 Thread wlenerz
On 3 Dec 2003 at 23:05, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Well, the Trojans are harmless. The horse (with the Greeks inside) is the real trouble maker. Phoebus will be charmed to know. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] looking for a disassembler...

2003-11-20 Thread wlenerz
On 19 Nov 2003 at 12:53, Jerome Grimbert wrote: (...) I will think of that (but it's basically a 3.01, excepted for a minor personal correction about mode8 mask convertion, totally irrelevant I believe for the booting problem). And the strangest part is: when lrespr-ed, it works fine! Only

Re: [ql-users] looking for a disassembler...

2003-11-19 Thread wlenerz
On 19 Nov 2003 at 9:02, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Greeting, Is there on the web any disassembler available free worth a recommendation ? (I mean a 680xx disassembler... might be ok if it run either on a Q40 or a PC) DISA is pretty good, even though not free. I don't know whether it is

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E on eprom

2003-11-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Nov 2003 at 9:26, Jerome Grimbert wrote: (...) Do we have any hardware specification/documentation for the eprom on the Q40 ? (including bus access and signals) How about reading the working version 2.91 into a file, splitting it up again and re- programming the (up to now) non

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E on eprom

2003-11-13 Thread wlenerz
On 12 Nov 2003 at 9:41, Jerome Grimbert wrote: To check the process, I read the old 2.91 eprom, process them via rrom_bas. I get a nice file which menuconfig is happy with, finding config block. Alas, this file fails badly when lrespr-ised. Oh, now that is very strange! Looking at the

Re: [ql-users] Running Programs under GD2

2003-11-11 Thread wlenerz
On 11 Nov 2003 at 19:26, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (...) BTW: If anybody is waiting for some private mail from me, I'm coming to that. Currently I'm dead tired. More tired than dead, I hope... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] filters again

2003-11-11 Thread wlenerz
On 11 Nov 2003 at 17:49, Arnould Nazarian wrote: From the first procedure like PRINT/INPUT or BGET/BPUT encountered in the filter? OK I see the problem now. Impossible to implement because such procedure can be user defined. And, especially, the EX command is invoked BEFORE your filter

Re: [ql-users] Filters in SMSQ/E

2003-11-10 Thread wlenerz
On 9 Nov 2003 at 16:39, Arnould Nazarian wrote: 4. Multiple input files (Tested with QPC 2.03 + SMSQ/E 2.99 and smsq_gold 2.98) HOWEVER the following test filter doesn't work _with files_: 10 REPeat 20 BGET#0,a:BGET#1,b 30 BPUT#2,a:BPUT#2,b 40 END REPeat and then EX

Re: [ql-users] wm.rptrt

2003-10-28 Thread wlenerz
On 27 Oct 2003 at 14:58, P Witte wrote: I hadnt thought of that, (I dont yet have the new Qmenu). But Id still prefer to know how to do it myself ;) Fair enough. if not, I've dug up some old code I hd used previously for a button with a standard border I feared, but was hoping I

Re: [ql-users] Bugs

2003-10-28 Thread wlenerz
On 28 Oct 2003 at 11:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: () The last of these is the old way. The new ways cause the window sprite to become the default arrow. This occurs in Q60 and in QPC2. I have only just now discovered this. So have I Yes, I can confirm this. Now why didn't I ever

Re: [ql-users] wm.rptrt

2003-10-26 Thread wlenerz
On 26 Oct 2003 at 20:51, P Witte wrote: Sorry for being such a pain, but I have some further questions: How do I position a PE window accurately? Problem is, I want to create a button, to go into the button frame. Im hoping to use a standard Window Definition with a single Loose

Re: [ql-users] Re:smsqe 3.03 - sources are out

2003-10-24 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, The sources for smsqe 3.03 are now officially out. (smsqe 3.03 itself is avaialble from your usual reseller). I have enclosed, as an attachment, some small text files, they tell you what is new in this version. I shall be sending the sources out on monday to those who have recently

Re: [ql-users] Re SMSQ/E

2003-10-20 Thread wlenerz
On 19 Oct 2003 at 19:23, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (...) Did you ever find the PE on the web? It's available like every other PE update before. Exactly I suppose it could also be distributed on other ways now, but that's not up to me to decide. Finally what happens if I run one of your new

Re: [ql-users] Isn't it open source?

2003-10-16 Thread wlenerz
On 16 Oct 2003 at 3:31, Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντό wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:46:55 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You fail to see the argument. Linux (or anything else) if its license is already a Free Software License by definition it cannot be turned into something that is NOT

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-16 Thread wlenerz
On 16 Oct 2003 at 9:57, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Above statement is formally credited as Copyright (C) Roy Wood sometime in the last 3 years :o| Do you think Roy would ... licence it? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] error lines

2003-10-16 Thread wlenerz
On 16 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote: Well, it wasn't the error tables I wanted. It was which statement in a line of basic caused the error. Launchpad's accessory programs are written in compiled BASIC and there are some multi-statement lines causing me

Re: [ql-users] Linus Torvalds, the QL, and open source

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 22:13, Peter Graf wrote: . I also think Marcel and Wolfgang work hard. Wolfgang does it without financial reward, a fact that has my full respect and appreciation. I hope that those Q40/Q60 developers who, unlike me, see enough reason to follow Marcel's SMSQ/E route,

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 18:44, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Do I hear the sound of rattles being thrown out of prams once more, children? rattle, rattle For goodness's sake, bury the hatchets now (and I don't mean in each other's heads). grin This is rapidly turning into another all too public

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 14:52, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Oh, excuse-me, but I'm only using (and developping it too) on Q40. I won't call that a waste! No, it isn't, of course not. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 12:06, Fabrizio Diversi wrote: Again, It should be clear that I am not an expert on this matter , i do not have any special expertise . Perhaps - but at least you TRY (and succeed) to do something with the sources. Just one think , I have as my hobby to play with QL and

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 20:28, Tarquin Mills wrote: (...) I like the QL because it (the QL community) is in general polite and friendly. Yes, that's true - and it makes the occasional storm only stand out that much stronger. But, always the optimist, I hope that this might clear the air for a

Re: [ql-users] Isn't it open source?

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 13:55, Bill Cable wrote: (...) I knew the QL was very special the first time I switch it on and am pleased to see it receive credit as a key motivator for the Open Source Movement. :-) Just to put a further cat amongt the pigeons (I'm in a provocative mood today), let me

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 19:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Forget this idea. I never sold nor trusted Q60 SMSQ/E versions after Tony Tebby. I can understand that you didn't sell any. But not trust any newer version? Do you mean there are, what, timebombs in the code? Somebody, on purpose,

Re: [ql-users] Linus Torvalds, the QL, and open source

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 15 Oct 2003 at 3:05, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: I do not think that the Qx0 and QPC are directly competing with each but they do indirectly. To explain: Basing an OS around an emulator, tempts users to totally abandon hardware for software only. Oh boy, do I disagree with

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 15 Oct 2003 at 10:29, Dilwyn Jones wrote: That implies the rattle is still in your hand and not yet been thrown, right? No, it's the echo. (...) This IS a subject that affects many (perhaps even all) of us. As long as something constructive comes out of it (e.g. agreement on updated

Re: [ql-users] Isn't it open source?

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 15 Oct 2003 at 3:59, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: (...) The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). SMSQE - OK The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. SMSQE OK

Re: [ql-users] Linus Torvalds, the QL, and open source

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 15 Oct 2003 at 3:05, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: (all cut) Just a very quick reply to one point.; I'll probably rply to more of this later. There is NOTHING - in the licence - in what I have ever said that stops you from developping code specific to a machine. You want to

Re: [ql-users] QPAC

2003-10-15 Thread wlenerz
On 15 Oct 2003 at 21:53, Christopher Cave wrote: Any bright ideas? Should I have upgraded QPAC2 sometime? Oh yes, ask your supplier to send you a new version of QPAC2 Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-14 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 3:13, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (...) Yes, if I was motivated by $$$ I would have left the scene several years ago, I'd have to sell at least 1 QPC per hour to really make it commercially viable for me. But writing computer software is my only income and therefore I must somehow

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-14 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Oct 2003 at 23:11, Peter Graf wrote: Well and we felt we walked 100 miles toward a compromise while you didn't move an inch. Fortunately enough, then, the amendments to the licence, in reply to your requests (and those of others) have been done publicly, in this forum, so I'll let

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-14 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Oct 2003 at 21:35, John Taylor wrote: Mutual admiration societies achieve nothing. There are differences of opinion in almost all aspects of QL computing. The 'licence' is just one of them. Long may this continue. All we have to do is just keep pushing. Perhaps, though, some

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-14 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Oct 2003 at 15:58, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: As for Wolfgang's comments I would respectfully disagree. Well, at least we can agree to disagree :-). As I said earlier it's anyone's choice how much they value their principles. Maybe Peter (and I do not speak for him

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-14 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Oct 2003 at 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Most Q60 users??? AFAIKS the number of Q60 users who requested _upgrade_ of SMSQ/E binaries to _your_ versions is ZERO in about one and a half year. Which proves total failure of your only through reseller concept. Sure SMSQ/E is

Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor

2003-10-13 Thread wlenerz
On 11 Oct 2003 at 23:17, Peter Graf wrote: (...) Q60 Successor: (...) After the departure of Tony Tebby, I see no basis for projects like this anymore, because there's no common ground with the new SMSQ/E maintainers, Well of course not, you never tried to find one. and at the same

Re: [ql-users] Bugs

2003-10-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Oct 2003 at 8:51, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Is there any uptodate Web page listing the know/resolved bugs with version (sort of changes.txt, with pending bugs listed as extra). No, not to my knowledge. I do keep a list of bugs that are sent to me/published here on the list. Yours will be

Re: [ql-users] Bugs

2003-10-07 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Oct 2003 at 9:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 24/09/03 19:33:23 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PARTYP, PARUSE, PARNAM$, and PARSTR$ dont work on Smsq/e 3.00 and 3.01. Ok I agree. This will be fixed in the forthcoming version 3.03 Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] RFC

2003-10-01 Thread wlenerz
On 1 Oct 2003 at 0:03, P Witte wrote: . I already use this keystroke in a number of my programs for the purpose (F5 in Qwirc, FF and others, and F10 in older programs) so in my case Id want to override, disable or avoid this facility in individual programs. Err, no, you wouldn't - this

Re: [ql-users] Bugs

2003-09-25 Thread wlenerz
On 24 Sep 2003 at 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) One of the biggest problems with SMSQ/e (especially on the Aurora version) has always been that if FORMAT flp1_ works on a DD disk, try it after FLP_DENSITY 'D' - always gives an error !! Wonder why?? No Idea (yet, hopefully).

Re: [ql-users] RFC

2003-09-25 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, I'm toying with the idea of implementing, withing SMSQ/E, some sort of general keystroke which will put the content of a con channel into the stuffer buffer (similar to CTRL-C on Windows) when using the edit/input string OS call (eg. INPUT inSbasic).. Thus, all software which uses the

Re: [ql-users] RFC

2003-09-25 Thread wlenerz
On 26 Sep 2003 at 0:04, P Witte wrote: (...) Are you thinking of buffering output sent to each scr/con channel, or are you thinking of using OCR, as in Qlip, or something else? and On 25 Sep 2003 at 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) The prblem comes when you want to highlight an area of

Re: [ql-users] sernet

2003-09-24 Thread wlenerz
On 23 Sep 2003 at 13:28, Derek Stewart wrote: Sernet works on all SMSQ/E systems and also non-SMSQ/E systems with SIMSER. On a QL with Superhermes, you will have to use SER1 or SER2. The superhermes SER3 failed to connect on my serial network. I think is is a limitation of the SER3

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-07-31 Thread wlenerz
On 30 Jul 2003 at 19:12, gwicks wrote: I decided about 10 days ago to get out of the QL world and then spent two days working on the timetable to do it. When I had done that I had a tremendous sense and relief and relaxation. I realised I should have done it a year ago. That's pretty sad -

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-07-30 Thread wlenerz
On 29 Jul 2003 at 16:05, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Europe or UK? There have only been a few voices so far, so what are the rest of you thinking? Eindhoven is a good venue, of course, for those in Europe. It would definitely make it better for me and feasible to come. Wolfgang

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-17 Thread wlenerz
On 17 Jul 2003 at 9:42, Gerhard Plavec wrote: Hi old QL-fellows :) old? he he Oh... and where can I get the OpenSource SMSQ/E to compile it by myself ? open source is an unfortunate expression (please, let's not get into THAT debate again). You can get the SMSQ/E sources from me. Send me

Re: QL freeware/open source? Was:[ql-users] OnT (Finally)

2003-07-16 Thread wlenerz
On 16 Jul 2003 at 12:28, Mark Martin wrote: (...) Please do NOT flame me. people don't generally get flamed on this list, as ong as they express themselves civilly (which is you case) (...) I'm curious to understand why just about anything for the QL is commercial. Others have

Re: [ql-users] Quanta Workshop in Norwich

2003-07-11 Thread wlenerz
O * A little bit of politics included to upset Tony. Work out for yourself whether I mean Blair or Firshman. Blair reads this list? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Dynamic arrays?

2003-07-08 Thread wlenerz
O(...) SMSQ/e has an outstanding bug in this instance as well - take for example: 10 DIM x(10) 20 c=1:TEST c,x 100 DEFine PROCedure TEST(a,b) 110 DIM b(100) 120 END DEFine Running this program gives the error as described. True. However, try entering as a direct command: CLEAR:

Re: [ql-users] Dynamic arrays?

2003-07-08 Thread wlenerz
First of all, thanks to all of you who replied. It transpires that there simply doesn't seem to be a way to do what I wanted. P Witte wrote: 1) Dimension the array to the max youre ever going to need right from the start. (This is analogous to your suggestion re the buffer problem we

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

2003-03-14 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Mar 2003 at 7:35, Dave Walker wrote: The hardest part will be to get agreement on the SB interface needed to support what is wanted. Probably the best would be to have functions to which pass the numbers as strings to/from the package (eg result$=HP_ADD (number1$,number2$)). The

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

2003-03-12 Thread wlenerz
QDOSMSQ's main problem , as you have found, is not so much the range of numbers that can be represented, but the way that the software displays it. I'm sure some of the procedure wriuters amongst us, who understand these floating point things (I don't !), could write a routine to take in

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

2003-03-12 Thread wlenerz
On 12 Mar 2003 at 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) . Otherwise Qdos is just the old fashioned 3-byte 32 bit mantissa, 12 bit exponent. Hmmm 32 bits + 12 bits in 3 bytes? Interesting. (just teasing!) Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

2003-03-10 Thread wlenerz
On 10 Mar 2003 at 13:36, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi all, How can I force Sbasic to display correct and readable numeric values? Here is an example of what I mean. (rest cut) Why not use print_using? Mind you, as Marcel pointed out, this does not get rid of the calculation errors, but it

Re: [ql-users] History Device

2003-02-26 Thread wlenerz
Re history device: Ok, thanks Mike, Dilwyn Duncan and all for your answer Seems that History does get used.So History isn't Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Directory Devices

2003-02-26 Thread wlenerz
On 26 Feb 2003 at 14:04, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Also please keep quiet about this issue, I wouldn't want the US administration to find out that pictures of me can be used as an easily producible weapon of mass destruction. We only have a few thousand litres of oil in the house, but one never

Re: [ql-users] Directory Devices

2003-02-25 Thread wlenerz
On 25 Feb 2003 at 10:40, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi Dilwyn, What about 'HISTORY'? I'd be interested to know whether anybody uses that device at all. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions

2003-02-20 Thread wlenerz
On 20 Feb 2003 at 10:01, François Van Emelen wrote: Hi Marcel, Thank you for your answer. Wouldn't there be a problem when your Eval$(e$)function is used 1000s of times? Isn't there a limit to the number of times a channel can be opened and closed in a program? François Van Emelen No,

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and macro substitutions

2003-02-20 Thread wlenerz
On 20 Feb 2003 at 10:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DEFine FuNction val$ (command$,parameter$) Oops I don't know why that was sent - Marcel has already posted this solution. Sorry. Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 3:46, Dave P wrote: And the question is Is Wolfgang able to treat DD fairly in light of his sense that they are seemingly ignoring his perceived authority? This something I cannot let by. There are always two sides to a authority - a moral and and a legal one. One has a

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 5 Nov 2002, at 20:07, Bill Waugh wrote: (...) There are not enough of us left that we should start an us and them war. It's true that we are a small cmmunity. But surely that doesn't mean that people should be behaving in an improper manner.? Wolfgang

Re: QRe: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 5 Nov 2002, at 19:28, Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: (...) Dennis makes a very interesting point on which nobody but DD and their customers know how many Q60 were sold WITH SMSQ/E on ROM? Thats is indeed, a very good question, to which I would have liked to have an answer MUCH earlier.

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 5 Nov 2002, at 16:13, Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: > 3. I and I believe > others up until now were under the impression that according to our > original "terms of purchase" we were entitled to free upgrades. That hasn't changed, has it? > That > was the idea behind QPC (where the price for an

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 2:25, P Witte wrote: (...) it appears we may have a rebel camp that is hell-bound on doing what it pleases whatever anyone else may think. Isnt that what its all about? I fear that it is, though, perhaps not even directly from DD. As to the rest of Per's message, I

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 21:42, dndsystems1 wrote: The reply I will post with this should sort Wolfgangs problem out. I get the impression he has always used the wrong address hence 'Black hole syndrome' never mind he can take it all back later on :-) There seems nothing to take back Wolfgang

Re: QRe: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 20:06, Phoebus Dokos wrote: (...) . More than once I've sent email to demon.co.uk users and it got lost or bounced. I'm not sure what's wrong (Adelphia tells me that's demon's fault.. maybe so as adelphia has a lot of spammers amongst its users...) nonetheless, it is a

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 20:34, Bill Waugh wrote: Can't argue with that, but few things fit easily into a black or white catagory Actually, I was hoping to get some explanation from DD to make this entire thing a bit less black and a bit more grey... what is occuring ( as usual ) is a discussion

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-06 Thread wlenerz
On 6 Nov 2002, at 21:23, dndsystems1 wrote: That is the wrong address you fool and you know it. Hmm, it's the address YOU use to post on here. Since it is foolish to use - what? Do you think I have not searched through that address, you have been informed of the correct address to use but

Re: [ql-users] QL Hardware

2002-11-05 Thread wlenerz
:-) The problem is how can tight it is into the system and how many things that are done by SMSQ/E are performed with the assumption of S*Basic being there? U - none ? ! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Software pirates in our midst?

2002-11-05 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, I just wanted to point out something to the general QL world at large: as you all know, SMSQ/E is being made available publicly, under a licence that was discussed at length here. This licence is now the current licence for all versions of SMSQ/E. Under this licence, only appointed

Re: [ql-users] Development

2002-11-04 Thread wlenerz
On 2 Nov 2002, at 12:07, P Witte wrote: Wlenerz had just told me that there were only *two* confirmed SMSQ/E developers Well, there are also: Fabrizio Diversi, who modestly only says that he accepts to be a tester for new versions, but is also doing some Q60 related stuff. Jerôme Grimbert

Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website

2002-11-04 Thread wlenerz
On 25 Oct 2002, at 23:58, Tony Firshman wrote: How about someone being appointed as a name server. Anyone adding to QDOS/SMSQ for general release should register the name with one person. Well, François van Emelem is IT!!! Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Development

2002-11-04 Thread wlenerz
On 2 Nov 2002, at 14:56, Marcel Kilgus wrote: Then I'll have one pepperoni pizza please :-) Watch it Per, Marcel is one great pizza fan... (...)Of course, if we had released SMSQ/E into freedom instead of into the licence as it is, there would now be zillions of developers around and

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic names

2002-11-04 Thread wlenerz
On 4 Nov 2002, at 9:06, Tony Firshman wrote: What is his email? I don't seem to have him on the Ql emailshot list - at least no 'emelem' How about Van Emelen? He does post on the list here... François Van Emelen francoisDOTvanemelenATchelloDOTbe Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] BMPCVT

2002-10-30 Thread wlenerz
On 30 Oct 2002, at 2:44, Öïßâïò Ñ. Íôüêïò wrote: (Pity I lost it during my last PC crash.. :-( Had you but asked, I'd have sent it again... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions toolkits

2002-10-30 Thread wlenerz
On 30 Oct 2002, at 14:28, P Witte wrote: WL©_ASEARCH - ? ;) How about WL_IS_BEST_.. Youre right, but the chances of a clash are further reduced, and your list would still help things along. Besides, I think a name or mnemonic should be helpful in reminding us what it does rather

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions toolkits

2002-10-29 Thread wlenerz
On 30 Oct 2002, at 1:10, P Witte wrote: Toolkits will often be grouped for special purposes, such as array manipulation, string parsing, or to manipulate some low-level object (such as a database or timer, etc). Wouldnt it be more logical and aesthetically pleasing to use prefixes such as

Re: [ql-users] Mode 33

2002-10-29 Thread wlenerz
On 29 Oct 2002, at 23:43, Derek Stewart wrote: (...) What about the other way, say a BMP2PIC converter, as I want to use my Q60/QPC/Atari QL/QL to view the graphics files. Derek I wrote something like that some time ago,as a basic keyword IIRC. Do you want me to send it to you directly?

Re: [ql-users] Sbasic extensions toolkits

2002-10-28 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, I've read this thread about names clashes in toolkits etc. with quite some interest. It would seem to me that, at least for the time being, the path of least resistance would rather be to make sure that names just don't clash, rather than try to devise various -very ingenious- schemes

Re: [ql-users] QPC2v303 versus Office 97

2002-09-30 Thread wlenerz
On 28 Sep 2002, at 11:47, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Can anyone else reproduce this problem I'm having with QPC2 v3.03? (description) Hmmm, I do this sort of thing all of the time (word 2000), and never noticed any problems with floppy disks. I just did it again, still no problem. It is a dos

Re: [ql-users] Re: Source code status report

2002-09-25 Thread wlenerz
On 24 Sep 2002, at 20:09, Marcel Kilgus wrote: The easy way is to just delete the line in the _link file, because the library is not needed at all ;-) I don't have it either. Oh, great, I'll do that, then. The fast memory version can easily live next to the others within the source

Re: [ql-users] Re: Source code status report

2002-09-16 Thread wlenerz
On 16 Sep 2002, at 20:08, P Witte wrote: Surely this wont be needed in the future? Cant the files just be zipped up without the dev8_ bit? They can if you do the zipping from inside the QL (or use an otherwise blank partition on the PC). OOps, sorry, I expressed myself unclearly - the

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ linker make

2002-07-09 Thread wlenerz
Hi all enclosed a likner make. The make soufce is basic is also supplie Wolfgang The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should

RE: [ql-users] SMSQ Source styleguide

2002-07-09 Thread wlenerz
On 9 Jul 2002, at 10:43, Norman Dunbar wrote: Once I get a compilation done, I can check the original 'win1_' and the 'dev8_' versions for similarity (or complete lack) and if ok, send Wolfgang what I have. And I will be very grateful for it! Once I get to that stage, I'll be having a

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Source styleguide

2002-07-09 Thread wlenerz
On 9 Jul 2002, at 7:52, Derek Stewart wrote: The styleguide looks very good, but all the programs specified to compile the SMSQ/E source code are commerical. Indeed they are. QMAC and QLINK maybe only available through QuantA QMAKE is available through Jochen Merz Software You can also

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ linker make

2002-07-09 Thread wlenerz
On 9 Jul 2002, at 12:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all enclosed a likner make. The make soufce is basic is also supplie Sorry, that was written a bit hastily as somebody else was talking in my ear. What I meant is that enclosed are the make linker. The make is a compiled basic prog,

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ Source...

2002-07-09 Thread wlenerz
On 9 Jul 2002, at 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you mean that you would like GWASS to be altered so that the Qmac macros would work without any change. yes. There are various reasons why this wouldn't be easy or indeed possible. For example the conditional instructions in

RE: [ql-users] SMSQ Source styleguide

2002-07-08 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, enclosed is the styleguide. Wolfgang The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from

[ql-users] Re: SMSQE

2002-06-25 Thread wlenerz
On 22 Jun 2002, at 11:52, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (snip) BTW how is it possible that newest QPC has some nonstandard SMSQ extensions? Have these already been included in the official SMSQ version? Richard also asked who uses events. I do, every day... Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] Just another idea

2002-06-14 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Jun 2002, at 11:10, Mike MacNamara wrote: I hope I am not taking sides, it is sad there seems to be sides. Yess! I, personally, would dispute that statement. For me, QPC is just as important. I have already said to Marcel and Jochen that in the wee sma hours I should

Re: [ql-users] Just another idea

2002-06-14 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Jun 2002, at 13:25, Mike MacNamara wrote: Hi Wolfgang OK, ADSL now up and running, back to business. I know you appear to have moved along with some others, but the problem is becoming intractable. A magnanimous gesture of some sort is required, if this is to be resolved. Ok,

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 11 Jun 2002, at 16:34, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (snip - mostly of the GPL licence - you have your understanding, I have mine) Whoa there. Would those who do these bad and evil things please step forward. Hmmm - nobody? How strange. really funny that, but aren't you

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 11 Jun 2002, at 22:21, Peter Graf wrote: Obvously not knowing he GPL. I'm afraid that the discussion about GPL (and whether I know it or not) will lead us too far astray. Let's just say that I will abide by my opinion on it. (snip) Do you really see what you are accusing me? Hey

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Jun 2002, at 14:11, Richard Zidlicky replying to an email in reply to Peter Graf wrote: I'm afraid that the discussion about GPL (and whether I know it or not) will lead us too far astray. Let's just say that I will abide by my opinion on it. you do not have an opinion on it.

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 Jun 2002, at 14:23, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (...) Did you ask Marcel? I don't see that he could suffer any kind of disadvantage with GPL.. he is probably the last one who needs to worry about GPL. He can suffer some inconvenience with this license. I did not ask Marcel specifically.

Re: [ql-users] Come get it

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
Ok, since this might have been lost in the lengthy reply to Robert, I am now taking orders for the source code under the licence as it was set out here. Please send me an email with your postal address. Depending on the number of returns, I will have to ask for those IRCs or not. I won't be

Re: [ql-users] Just another idea

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Jun 2002, at 1:08, Mike MacNamara wrote: A locked room seems the only way forward. I'm not so sure about this at all... I know you feel you have all compromised and bent over backwards, and probably you have, but if you don't go that extra yard, it may end in tears. The same must be

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-13 Thread wlenerz
On 14 Jun 2002, at 2:34, P Witte wrote: Can this appalling discussion now come to an end, please? I am not prepared to evaluate any argument, however just, that is couched in such grotesque terms as we have witnessed in recent days and weeks. There is absolutely no value in such

Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE

2002-06-11 Thread wlenerz
Joachim van der Auwera wrote: Ok, what if TT can not be reached or found (or worse) ? Or he has no time or does not know anybody fit for the job... What if the amount of code added is such that he is a co-author, and not the main author? How can you expect people to write free code

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E Proposals

2002-05-30 Thread wlenerz
On 29 May 2002, at 16:29, Bill Cable wrote: Roy and Jochen : In cases of new versions of SMSQ created by Wolfgang using only donated code so the developers are not asking for compensation what might we expect to pay if we already own SMSQ? I would suspect : nothing. Can a person

Re: [ql-users] Roy and Jochen

2002-05-30 Thread wlenerz
On 29 May 2002, at 23:44, dndsystems1 wrote: Excellent mate, this only needs to be said once, thanks a lot. By the way, just who is DD, if it is allowed to ask? Wolfgang

Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E Proposals

2002-05-30 Thread wlenerz
On 29 May 2002, at 19:59, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: Aha, the first real AI, then... (Sorry, coudln't resist that) USERS get the license as it stands, but with developer references stripped out. DEVELOPERS get the user licence, with an addendum that allows distribution of

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