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Before anyone gets too tangled in Qptr, Easyptr, Turboptr, or whatever, I'd advise basics first. Get a grasp on the terminology by reading Norman Dunbar's PE Idiot's Guide, on https://dilwyn.qlforum.co.uk/docs/ptr/index.html If going for Easyptr (or DifficultPTR as some call it), read another of Nor...

A simple (but slow) way to work out the file length on a QL without toolkit extensions is to open the file and keep reading bytes from it until you run into EOF for that channel, incrementing a counter for every byte read. If used to help with restoring file headers, it will only be run once for eac...

Of course. But I think his point was that (a) he only has a 128k BBQL to work with so QL-end software might have been a no-no and (b) he's new to it.

Hence my comment about learning to walk before running, i.e. learn to use the QL first before tackling more difficult things.

Even better in that case!

Good luck! Extra RAM will make a lot of difference to the QL, even if internal RAM is slightly slower than most external expansions.

If you us the QLAY emulator, when using Windows directories mapped to the win device, it creates a qlay.dir file that contains the header information. There is an accompanying tool called qlayt.exe that will allow you to take a file without the header, and then simply add a header to it by specifyi...

Price is usually subject to availability - such boards are not cheap when there is a demand (due to failures or new people wanting to revisit older designs), but £1000 is taking the proverbial - and explains perfectly why he hasn't sold it yet - he's got quite a few watchers but no bites - surely t...

JM QL still allows use of Toolkit 2 extensions. TBH, a QL without Toolkit 2 is pretty useless for this sort of thing. Job2Bas_doc is a Quill doc file. PDF version attached to make life easier. Bear in mind that it has to be run in SuperBASIC (or SBASIC) on the sending machine, i.e. you need a means ...

If your QL has Toolkit 2, you could use the COPY_H extension to force copying of a header. Or COPY_N to force copying without a header, e.g. if copying to a printer where any header bytes might accidentally act as control codes to put printers in random modes and spoil the listings. But if that head...

999 members!
This is like watching a car mileometer pass 100,000!

Wonder who the 1,000th member will be - Simon Greenaway (member 999) just missed on it