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Thanks Derek and Per for the helpful replies.

I have had a further look at QWIRC on QPC2 and it does not seem to have the function I was hoping it might have. If I have understood the program correctly the QXL.win files that can be mounted as alternates for a Win slot need to be listed in the .rsc ...

QWIRC 0.66 from Per Witte is solely for QPC2 is anyone aware of a version for the Q68 or Q40?

His website also seems to have disappeared.

Thanks for any info

Hi Derek,

It seems that back in the day the partition table for the Qx0 was a missed opportunity as each partition entry only occupies 12 bytes. The 4 partition table entries sit just 58 bytes from the end of the sector, the remainder of the sector apart from the magic number in the 1st 2 bytes is ...

2 years on I have finally had the time to look at MKpart_exe. So here is a modified version of it that will create 4 QWA partitions of specified size. See attached.

Duncan

I have often wondered what happen to the PD QL libraries, and what gems they may contain. So many thanks to you Dilwyn and to Martin Head for compiling these collections.

Cheers

Duncan

smsq/e can be forgiving about variable types but the compilers are not usually. Turbo strings do need to be dimensioned. By default if my recollection is correct they are dimensioned to 100 characters but this may not apply to strings passed as variables. Perhaps x$ might need to be explicity ...

I can see why the compiled programs ought to fail.

The procedure "second" is passed a variable x which is actually a string - hence the likely problem with Turbo and for QLIB when "second" is called x has been defined as a LOCal for "first". Why not define the variable passed to second as x$ and ...

Hi Per,

PRINT $1234 = PRINT HEX(1234) : As yo know the function HEX is in TK2 and so should run on any system as TK2 is now freely available.

I have no idea if this would not work with your preferred method of compiling with QLIB. I prefer composing in QD, testing under QBASIC and then loading the ...

Hi,

I have been upgrading my Q60 with SATA3 SSD and I/F to IDE(PATA) connection.

This is what worked for me :

Multibao PATA IDE to SATA Interface Adapter Converter, Serial ATA SATA to Parallel ATA PATA/IDE Hard Drive for 3.5"/2.5" Hard Drive HDD DVD from amazon.

Integral P Series 5 120GB SATA ...

Hi
Did anyone have a look at Jerome Grimbert's FDISK software? There is no documentation,

I did. But without documentation the GUI was too difficult for me to immediately grasp and as I had fixed my 4th partition to the correct size by editing the partition table with WinEd I had no desire to ...