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

2002-11-04 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 at 08:57:21, wrote: (ref:

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

2002-11-04 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 at 08:57:21, wrote: (ref: <3DC63671.8337.69C9FB@localhost>) > >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, Fr

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] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website

2002-10-27 Thread Geogwilt
In a message dated 25/10/02 17:12:18 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have thought about this, and here's how I would solve the problem. Just make it a standard that a toolkit looks for an existing instance of the keyword, and if it is in use, alter the keyword in a standardised wa

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

2002-10-26 Thread P Witte
Dave Walker writes: > What is needed is some way to load toolkits "locally" to a particular > instance of SBasic rather than as system wide global settings. As to > whether anyone could think of a way to enhance SBasic to achieve this is > another matter. You already have it! In SMSQ/E, any ext

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

2002-10-26 Thread P Witte
Dave P writes: <> > Just make it a standard that a toolkit looks for an existing instance > of the keyword, and if it is in use, alter the keyword in a standardised > way. <> Bit of a pain that if what all you wanted to do was to redefine a keyword - a common occurance during toolkit developmen

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

2002-10-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: >> Easy: just lrespr it within the particular SBASIC instance. The > This isn't a solution for the 'words clashes', I'm afraid. Of course. I didn't say it is. Marcel

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

2002-10-25 Thread Tony Firshman
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 at 13:54:45, François Van Emelen wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >Speaking of Sbasic... Wouldn't it be nice to avoid 'word clashes' by >following some kind of convention? >An example to illustrate this? >I've just discovered W. Lenerz' ARRAY_BIN. Nice extension, but >unus

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

2002-10-25 Thread François Van Emelen
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Dave Walker wrote: What is needed is some way to load toolkits "locally" to a particular instance of SBasic rather than as system wide global settings. As to whether anyone could think of a way to enhance SBasic to achieve this is another matter. Easy: just lrespr it w

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

2002-10-25 Thread Ian . Pine
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS >INTERNALS website > > > > > >On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Dave Walker wrote: > >> What is needed is some way to load toolkits "locally" to a particular >> instance of SBasic rather than a

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

2002-10-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave P wrote: > Just make it a standard that a toolkit looks for an existing instance > of the keyword, and if it is in use, alter the keyword in a standardised > way. This would result in a complete mess. The semantic of a keyword depending on the order in which the extensions are loaded, no tha

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

2002-10-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
François Van Emelen wrote: > What I'd like to see, from time to time on the list, is a progress > report (progress?) about SMSQE. What has already been done, what will be > added, updated, when can we expect a new version, There are some plans for improving GD2 and some other minor things are ha

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

2002-10-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dave Walker wrote: > What is needed is some way to load toolkits "locally" to a particular > instance of SBasic rather than as system wide global settings. As to > whether anyone could think of a way to enhance SBasic to achieve this is > another matter. Easy: just lrespr it within the particula

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

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Walker
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website >Speaking of Sbasic... Wouldn't it be nice to avoid 'word clashes' by >following some kind of convention? Int

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

2002-10-25 Thread Claude Mourier 00
official keyword list to avoid conflicts. Claude -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:phoebus@;dokos-gr.net] Envoyé : vendredi 25 octobre 2002 16:05 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: RE: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS INTERNALS website ??? 25/10/2

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

2002-10-25 Thread Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος
??? 25/10/2002 9:34:47 ??, ?/? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: > >>Speaking of Sbasic... Wouldn't it be nice to avoid 'word clashes' by >>following some kind of convention? > >Interesting. I've been thinking about the same thing recently. And not just confined >to clashing toolkits. By extending S

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

2002-10-25 Thread Ian . Pine
ncept of SMSQ/E and SBASIC. Ian >-Original Message- >From: François Van Emelen [mailto:francois.vanemelen@;chello.be] >Sent: 25 October 2002 12:55 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS >INTERNALS website >Spe

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

2002-10-25 Thread François Van Emelen
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 24 Oct 2002, at 14:20, Norman Dunbar wrote: PS. Well, it has been quite here over the last couple of days - is anybody out there ? I think the usual answer is :no, there isn't... Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com Wrong, I am. But there isn't much goi

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

2002-10-25 Thread Ian . Pine
isk with a >single QWA partition on it, which physical sector would that >information be found in? > >the very first sector. >wolfgang >-Original Message- >From: Wolfgang Lenerz [mailto:wlenerz@;free.fr] >Sent: 24 October 2002 20:38 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2002-10-24 Thread P Witte
Ian Pine writes: <> >Just looking at the hard disk details. On a disk with a >single QWA partition on it, which physical sector would that >information be found in? The QWA file system normaly has its Primary Partition Table at sector 0. To check: open#3; "win1_*d2d" get#3\0; sec$: close#3 pri

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

2002-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 24 Oct 2002, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Must send my SMSQ source CD back to Wolfgang so I can get >the updated one. I'm ready... > Wondering whether Jochen is about. I emailed him about the Qmake disk I bought at >the Byfleet show but have not had a reply. I'm pretty sure th

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

2002-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 24 Oct 2002, at 14:20, Norman Dunbar wrote: > PS. Well, it has been quite here over the last couple of days - is anybody > out there ? I think the usual answer is :no, there isn't... Wolfgang - www.wlenerz.com

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

2002-10-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Ian, thanks for pointing out my URL error, you are quite correct it should be : http://www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qdos/index.html As to where the hard disc information lives - I believe it is usually on the very first sector of the disc (same as floppy) which, for the life of me, I cannot rememb

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

2002-10-24 Thread Ian . Pine
mailto:Norman.Dunbar@;lfs.co.uk] >Sent: 24 October 2002 14:20 >To: QL (E-mail) >Cc: QL (E-mail) >Subject: [ql-users] a small but perfectly formed update to QDOS >INTERNALS website > > > >Not much to report - and nothing for some time either ! > >QL Hard disc forma

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

2002-10-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
Not much to report - and nothing for some time either ! QL Hard disc format added. A quick correction to one of the examples (Trap #1, D0 = $OA - MT_ACTIV) Some preparitory work for 'forthcoming updates'. Changed my email address details on the Quantum Ring bit at the bottom. Pretty boring reall