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Polka wrote: > Moreover, I did not find in the SSB doc any way to substitute for DATA RESTORE READ constructs without line numbers ? Which to my opinion are more useful than GOTO. SSB Labels work with the RESTORE statement as well as with GOTO's. Here is an example: @label data 10,20,30,40 restore @...

I just tried with SMSQmulator 2.31 and all I got was a blank green screen. I unzip the flp version into ram1_ then called the program: exec_w ram1_qstar_exe;"ram1_" if I run with with EXEC instead of EXEC_W, I can switch back to QDOS and check that the program is running. I can even kill t...

All my zines and stuff are on my website:

http://swensont.epizy.com/

Tim

bwinkle, You might find the following SMSQzine articles interesting: Astronomical Calculations with Abacus and Archive - Issue #3 PC Four to QL Xchange - Issue #6 History of Psion Xchange - Issue #6 Abacus - Issue 38 converting spreadsheets from Abacus to others will work with .csv files, but I don'...

I've just posted a new paper called "The Sinclair QL in North America" on my website. It has details on the launch of the QL here in the US, the QL & T/S community, the QL shows, the vendors and even QL software written on this side of the pond. The link is: http://swensont.epizy.com/Q...

I know that standard include files can be referenced with .h, and the preprocessor converts the '.' to a '_'. Here is what the C68 manual says: Filenames given to the #include directive may contain a '.' as the extension separator. During processing, any '.' will be translated to an underscore, and ...

Ok, I swear that I've not paid Dilwyn or Norman or anyone else to mention SSB. :-) SSB was first created in 1991. It just took some time to get some attention. I like to view SSB as a pre-processor, as the inspiration was the C preprocessor (include statements, conditional compilation, etc). For an ...

M68008 wrote:
> I would use an existing tool. Exiftool is pretty good and it works on most operating systems (except QDOS, until someone ports Perl to it).

Perl 4 was ported years ago by Jonathan Hudson. I think he said porting Perl 5 would be much more difficult.

Tim

Derek,

Check my PDF's and see if you like them. They are created from .DOC files (which I can send you). Might have you a bit in scanning and OCRing.

Tim

I did my own version too: http://swensont.epizy.com/Archive.pdf For example programs, see the stuff from Bill Cable: DBeasy - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbeasyfo.zip DBProgs - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbprogsf.zip DBTutor - https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/database/dbtutor.zip Bi...