My wife has been cleaning up and found a box with a lot of QL stuff. An original
QL! A keyboard mat in original package. Some keyboards and electronic boards.
The total is not very heavy. I would be willing to pack it all and send it
to someone or place where it could be of use. Any suggestions?
I
I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
It starts off overwriting its own files as you unzip them because the
path names are stored too long. Classic example of an author supplying
a problem for you to use. All well and good if you are prepared to
manually rename the directories, which
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:18:40 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
It starts off overwriting its own files as you unzip them because the
path names are stored too long. Classic example of an author supplying a
problem for you to use.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Just what is happening? What's being done wrong here? Using Lynx 282,
latest on JRH's website. The lynx_cfg and lynxrc files are meaningless
garbage to me, so I haven't touc
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
My wife has been cleaning up and found a box with a lot of QL stuff. An
original
QL! A keyboard mat in original package. Some keyboards and electronic boards.
The total is not very heavy. I would be willing to pack it all and send it
to so
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Just what is happening? What's being done wrong here? Using Lynx 282,
latest on JRH's website. The lynx_cfg and lynxrc files are meaningless
garbage to me, so I haven't tou
I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Well, works here.
"...without help to get over needless problems which should never have
occurred int he first place".
Thank you Marcel. Yet again. It now works.
130 SETENV "TERMINFO=win1_LYNX282_terminfo_qdos"
That should be
SETENV "TERMINFO=win1_L
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:38:37 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Ah! So you don't use the real full filename of the file, you refer to
terminfo_qdos as terminfo? So the filename must be made up of the
joined together TERMINFO and TERM strings.
Jonathan's manuals are awful for those of
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Malcolm Cadman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
My wife has been cleaning up and found a box with a lot of QL stuff.
An original
QL! A keyboard mat in original package. Some keyboards and electronic boards.
The t
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
And while I'm in a foul mood over another non-QL issue, will anyone
having successfully installed a Tevion MD Slimline MD 42361 USB
digital camera please contact me off list - it was bought by my father
for my son from Aldi a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Mellor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Hmm seeing as Dilwyn has mentioned running Lynx from within QPC2 - does
Marcel want to actually let us poor mortals who do not have the beta
version what v3.30 is going to contain - I guess the ability to access
the intern
On 9 Jan 2005 at 16:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> And while I'm in a foul mood over another non-QL issue, will anyone
> having successfully installed a Tevion MD Slimline MD 42361 USB
> digital camera please contact me off list - ()
What a sad story!
One, probably stupid, question: Do you need d
This is the problem with all the programs ported from Unix - no-one
bothers to look at the documentation and see if it would make any
sense to QL users. Guess that's why Linux is free but you pay so
much to purchase a copy and get support...
Linux ports to QL systems will be a waste of time unti
On 9 Jan 2005 at 18:02, Roy wood wrote:
> It is coming. Be glad he does extensive beta testing so it is us and not
> the users who find most of the bugs. I think the one I have here is
> probable release candidate - but then I have not made any of the other
> three betas fall over.
Neither have
On 9 Jan 2005 at 17:34, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(...)
> I forgot it wasn't public knowledge yet. QPC2 v3.30 will have access
> to Windows TCP/IP much like how uQLx allows access to TCP/IP of the
> underlying Linux.
>
> It's not a general TCP/IP system like soql because it uses Windows. So
> don't ex
I had a play with the QWord demo on a friend's PC the other day.
They have a good P4 computer running XP SP2 (faster than mine, but I
forgot to get the actual speed) and on-board sound.
Unfortunately, when QWord starts up -the sound file stutters (this is only
a COPY ram1_soundfile_ub TO sound4
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:34:13 -, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This is the problem with all the programs ported from Unix - no-one
bothers to look at the documentation and see if it would make any
sense to QL users. Guess that's why Linux is free but you pay so
much to purchase a
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> Ah! So you don't use the real full filename of the file, you refer to
> terminfo_qdos as terminfo? So the filename must be made up of the
> joined together TERMINFO and TERM strings.
Yes, that's the idea. You tell it where all the TERMINFOs are stored
and which one of those y
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 at 16:38:37, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>It works now and just goes to show how lucky we are on this list to
>have our collective selves to help each other, especially people like
>That said, my wife bought a 3 year old BMW-Rover 25 before christmas.
>She's
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 at 19:14:16, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>On 9 Jan 2005 at 16:38, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>
>Hmm sorry to add to your woes, but I have a totally different story... I took
>my digicam & digi camcorder to my recent vacations. I took picures & "films"
>of my ch
This is absolutely hit and miss, depending on the software, updates,
manufacturer of system and camera, other software, etc. (IE: ouch).
Simple solution - buy a Mac or better yet, do we have someone
volunteering to write all the drivers and design the hardware for our
system? (in case someone
Hi,
Dilwyn wrote:
"Linux ports to QL systems will be a waste of time until either we all
learn Linux or authors learn to make documentation make sense."
Marcel has already explained about the terminfo, I didn't as its some
time (years) since I set Lynx up and had forgotten & I havent looked at
ema
Now that tcp access using Qpc is possible, writing an e-mail client should be
not so difficult to write even using sbasic. I am doing just now by myself a
very primitive sbasic program to retrieve e-mail messages from my pop server
using the examples coming from j. Hudson web site inside the
Under uQLx the apps have comlete unfettered access to the native unix
file system. Therefore AFAIK none of the file name/path issues affecting
Dilwyn would have hit users of Lynx under uQLx. ( I haven't tried it
myself). So, the port of any unix programme onto uQLx can, and often
does, make u
Medion is another of those makes so beloved of PC World (spit!) and
they are hand in hand with Packard Bell for
a. making crap
b. not caring when a customer notices its crap
c. not listening to anything you say or write because anyone who
buys anything at PC World (spit) can't know anything anywa
Hmm seeing as Dilwyn has mentioned running Lynx from within QPC2 -
does Marcel want to actually let us poor mortals who do not have the
beta version what v3.30 is going to contain - I guess the ability to
access the internet :-)
It is coming. Be glad he does extensive beta testing so it is us a
Rich Mellor wrote:
Do you want to put together a new zip which we can extract on the QL
please Dilwyn...
And maybe your sample boot file
Well, I've made some progress.
Lynx starts. Lynx browses websites. I can now display 'help' after
fixing path and file names (the only way to get it to work wa
And while I'm in a foul mood over another non-QL issue, will anyone
having successfully installed a Tevion MD Slimline MD 42361 USB
digital camera please contact me off list - ()
What a sad story!
One, probably stupid, question: Do you need drivers at all?
Isn't the camera recognized (as a remo
What a sad story!
One, probably stupid, question: Do you need drivers at all?
Isn't the camera recognized (as a removable drive) as is?
AFAIK it depends upon the OS. Win 98 will need drivers. XP might need
them, Win 2000 won't. That's my experience with usb cameras and memory
sticks. XP supp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Well, that's the correct way to set up the home page according to
Lynx!!! Local files (i.e. files on your computer) are worse, to set
the above for a local file such as WIN1_TEST_FILE_HTML you'd need to
unix-ify it a bit:
/W
can anyone tell me what the point is ?
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I believe in this case, it would be the thing at the bottom of the ?
jim
On Jan 9, 2005, at 1:53 PM, David Tubbs wrote:
can anyone tell me what the point is ?
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:08:00 -0800, James Hunkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I believe in this case, it would be the thing at the bottom of the ?
lol Jim I think he means wot's the point ohf having a subject line - the
body of the emails soon goes away from it...
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Sorry about that, been working on the QDT install database for 3 days
now and my mind is having problems being serious about much of anything
:)
Actually, subject lines are very important and a continuing frustration
to me - and definitely not only on this mail list. I treat subject
lines (or
Under uQLx the apps have comlete unfettered access to the native
unix file system. Therefore AFAIK none of the file name/path issues
affecting Dilwyn would have hit users of Lynx under uQLx. ( I
haven't tried it myself). So, the port of any unix programme onto
uQLx can, and often does, make u
OK, time to eat my words.
After a little while browsing with Lynx, I even downloaded a QPC2
update from Marcel's website using Lynx from within QPC2 itself.
I hope I have now created a useable minimal Lynx distro on my website
for download. Even this 'minimal' distribution is about 480KB in
len
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] camera (was Lynx 282)
This is absolutely hit and miss, depending on the software,
updates, manufacturer of system and camera, other softwa
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] E-mail client
Now that tcp access using Qpc is possible, writing an e-mail client
should be not so difficult to write even using sbasic. I
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] camera (was Lynx 282)
Incidentally, Dilwyn, you should be able to plug in the camera's
storage
card into, say, a 6x1 reader and copy the p
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Lynx 282
I forgot it wasn't public knowledge yet. QPC2 v3.30 will have
access
to Windows TCP/IP much like how uQLx allows access to TCP/IP
I apologise in advance if I foul up the list. 4 emails I sent tonight
have been "interfered with" by AVG and may arrive garbled. If
reasdable at all, you'll find the AVG signature at the bottom.
Sometimes email to the list seem to upset it, some even bounce back to
me with a "Relay" error. Not
What a sad story!
One, probably stupid, question: Do you need drivers at all?
Isn't the camera recognized (as a removable drive) as is?
AFAIK it depends upon the OS. Win 98 will need drivers. XP might
need them, Win 2000 won't. That's my experience with usb cameras and
memory sticks. XP support
Dilwyn Jones writes:
> I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Poor old Dilwyn. My commiserations (in advance) for 2005.
I agree with you that for us poor QLers Lynx is a malevolent and
misogynistic piece of software. I also agree with Marcel (as he says further
down the line) that it
P Witte wrote:
> Marcel: Presumably, there is no 36 character limit on www paths under the
> TCP etc devices?
Right, this is a character device.
> So couldnt the DOS device (easily) be made to work the same under
> TCP? Eg:
No, DOS is a directory device.
Marcel
If its a USB web-cam you probably need the drivers for any O/S.
It's not. But I've heard from one other person with exactly the same
problem as me with this, it seems there is a fault on the CD they
distribute with it but they won't admit to it. It works on some PCs and
not on others. There's a
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> I honestly don't believe this is useable on QPC2.
Well, works here.
> I connected to my ISP from Windows, then ran the boot program for Lynx
> and all that happens is a brief flash of a Lynx screen and nothing,
> disappears without error or anything.
Try
ex lynx;'http://w
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