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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...

In Bill Cables series "Archive Made Easy", in chapter 19, he discusses joins between tables and creating key fields. He describes the user defining the values in the key field; "but is is best if the user can define their own keys and even in QLerk the user has final say". I thin...

How about just turning down the brightness on the monitor?
The QL Vision monitor had a nice knob for that.

That looks like it could be interesting to tinker with. Hope it can be released.

Tim