sQLux v1.0 (The Xmas Turkey)

[XorA]

[ql_freak]

This looks nice :-) I must test this on my uQLx (installed on my former main PC), cause I'm nearly sure it does not work. But try the "COPY" example (to an existing file) to be sure that overwrite works (on a WIN device, of course it works on RAM disc).

As (without TK2) overwrite was not supported by a BBQL (pure QL) on Microdrive, many programs programmed around this by first deleting the old file, and then create the file newly with the same name and write it (e.g. Spy and MasterSpy editors). But newer programs may fail on an original uQLx when trying to overwrite a file on a WIN (and FLP?) device.

[XorA]

This looks nice I must test this on my uQLx (installed on my former main PC), cause I'm nearly sure it does not work. But try the "COPY" example (to an existing file) to be sure that overwrite works (on a WIN device, of course it works on RAM disc).

As (without TK2) overwrite was not supported by a BBQL (pure QL) on Microdrive, many programs programmed around this by first deleting the old file, and then create the file newly with the same name and write it (e.g. Spy and MasterSpy editors). But newer programs may fail on an original uQLx when trying to overwrite a file on a WIN (and FLP?) device.

sQLux file handling code is almost 100% uqlx with a couple of bugs fixed. But nothing that should affect this!

[BSJR]

It should be sufficient to create a new file from SuperBASIC, and then try to OPEN_OVER from SuperBASIC:

OPEN_OVER is a TK2 command and thus not standard available in Minerva.
However according to the Minerva manual an _OVER action can be created by a third parameter (page 21 of my copy).
: OPEN channel, device, 3 : will act as overwrite.
This third parameter has the same effect on OPEN_IN & OPEN_NEW.
0 - as OPEN, 1 - as _IN, 2 - as _NEW, 3 - as _OVER, 4 - as _DIR.

BSJR

[ql_freak]

OPEN_OVER is a TK2 command and thus not standard available in Minerva.

My example states clearly:

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110 Requires SuperToolkit 2

;-) But in the meantime I was able to start UQLX on my old PC :-D And XorA is right, UQLX supports overwrite on the WIN device. What is not supported is creating directories on a WIN device. Even if you have a SuperToolkit 2 with the MAKE_DIR command, it does (at least on older versions of UQLX) not work, see in this thread.

Does SQLUX support creating directories on a WIN device? As I'm running UQLX on Windows Subsystem for Linux (NTFS formatted) I cannot use the native file system (which supports creating directories).

However according to the Minerva manual an _OVER action can be created by a third parameter (page 21 of my copy).

Now that you tell it, I remember, there was an extension in Minerva. But I think it's better to use the SuperToolkit 2 procedures and functions as IMHO no other QDOS compatible system supports the Minerva versions of OPEN with 3 parameters while SuperToolkit 2 is normally always available.

[XorA]

Does SQLUX support creating directories on a WIN device?

No the file magic should be functionally identical to uqlx!

[desin]

the Qjump ramdisk supports subdirectories
a must for ACP and unzip

qjump_ramdisk_211.zip

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Greetings from Switzerland
Markus

[ql_freak]

That's unfortunately not a solution. Assume the following scenario: I create the new Project "My Do What I am Thinking App" (MDwIaTA - BTW: Are the caps correct in British English?).

Of course I must create the project in my project directory on my "hard disk". So I must e.g. (DATED$ returns the project directory) type:

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makedir'MDwIaTA'

That's unfortunately not possible with UQLX.

[badaman]

I appreciate the good work being done with the sQLux emulator. Yesterday I compiled the latest version without problems on an old PC Asus EeePC 901 with Xubuntu 32bits.

Would it be possible to incorporate the Spanish keyboard into the emulator? This would be perfect for me and other people in Spain.

If I can help in any way to make it possible, I am available.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

sQLux can have its keyboard setup in the squl.ini or .uqlux.rc file with th e entry:

KBD Select the keyboard language. Valid options are GB, DE and US. Defaults to US

Or is as Spanish is unsupported, get the Minerva Support Disk from the QL Homepage and load the Minerva Spanish Keyboard overlay on booting up Minerva.