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The official documentation for Config may also help. It's downloadable from Wolfgang's web site at https://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff/Config.zip.

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Norm.

Hi T0nyt, you asked about using config as a QL best practice. You don't have to! My suggestion was simply a feeble attempt at humour. Sorry. However, as relates to your "menu" system, you will always be LRUNning the same S*BASIC program, so no need for a config block. However, if this was ...

And, for your next iteration, add a config block so that the command to be typed in is configurable without having to edit and reassemble the code! :D :D :D :D By the way, there was nothing wrong with your code, it worked. My comments were there to point you at "better" QDOS specific stuff...

If I may comment.... 1. In QDOS/SMSQ, strings are defined this way, with a leading word determining the length, followed by the characters of the string. runcmd dc.w cmdEND-runcmd-2 dc.b 'lrun win1_menu',$0A cmdEND equ * Doing it this way means never having to count characters when you change the st...

I agree 100% with what Dilwyn said.


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Norm.

Nice!

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Norm.

Welcome. You are among friends here. Have fun.

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Norm.

artificer wrote:Norman Dunbar also wrote a screen grabber, possibly only mode 4 called I think Grabbit.

I fear you may have mistaken me for someone else! I wrote a couple of very bad ql2bmp and bmp2ql utilities many years ago, but never a screen grabber. At least, as far as I'm aware!


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Norm.

A quote from Marcel in https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=21655#p21655: ... or continue to use "trap #15", the latter however must be enabled by the command "tl 15" (IIRC "Trap Level 15") to enter QMON, otherwise it will be ignored. Foxed me for a while when my trap ...

Just to let you know, my qdosmsq Wiki is now, temporarily, offline. My hosting bill was up for renewal so I cancelled it.

I have backups of the site.

Any email addresses @qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk will no longer work. You can email me at qdosmsq at dunbar-it.co.uk now.

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Norm.