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Hi Tim, I'm on Linux 64 myself, but I have 32bit running in VirtualBox for testing, Windows 64bit also. But the more the merrier. The fact that any qxltool hard disc worked is surprising as the header is all over the place - most likely due to field alignment in the header and a bit of weirdness in ...

Hi Marcel, yes, you are correct in that the first entry in the map is included in the header. My test script was ignoring that and only counting up to that point - so wasn't including the map itself in the header. Sorry for not making that clear. And yes, I did also do another version with the 'uint...

Hi Tobias,

You've just confirmed what I've been trying to avoid! An array of unsigned char.

Thanks.


Cheers,
Norm.

I'm looking at making this utility work, properly. I've delved into the code and come up with some weird stuff that Richard was coding (and to be fair, he had zero documentation) but with my own docs on my Wiki, I'm making progress. However, I have noticed that on Windows running GCC as the compiler...

Cheers Dave. One of the problems of the old Wiki software was the fact that nothing, it appears, had ever been updated since 2007. (If I remember correctly.) That's not to say anyone here was negligent, just the author didn't release any patches etc. Anyway, it was fun converting it to Dokuwiki and ...

Morning All,

I've updated the WIKI software behind the QL WIki to make sure we are up to date as regards security etc.


Cheers,
Norm.

So I will use the Zip compression, as I think there maybe issues with people who only use Windows. If I can stick my nose in here ... People on Windows should (!) Be using 7-Zip for all their compression needs. Check out https://www.7-zip.org for details. The last 5 or 6 contracts I've had used it....

Thanks.

I'll take a look later, after work!

Cheers,
Norm.

...So any nonsense that 68000 cant handle C++ is exactly that! I'd be inclined to agree, I program AVR microcontrollers in C++ and they only have 32KB Flash RAM plus 2KB for variables etc. Ok, admittedly, I have to cross-compile from Linux->AVR but we could do that for the Ql as well I suppose. Plu...

Hi Tobias, ... even Java (yes, Norman ;) ). Tobias Nothing wrong with Java, I don't know what you mean! (aka, I'm a two faced liar!!) However, https://github.com/NormanDunbar/Tnsnames_checker is my first ever Java program. I also did https://github.com/NormanDunbar/Tns2Toad which was my second. At t...