Since QWKie is in it's last version, and I have not honored rego's in a long time, and I will no longer support it, I feel it is necessary to release it for all to use and enjoy.
Here's how,
I cannot package the last version and redistribute it, so I will show you how to strip the registration from any v3.1 reg'd copy. Someone, I hope, will take the time to follow the instructions, create an .SDA file and post it.
Load the main module of QWKie only (do not use the boot program). From BASIC, enter: POKE 25754,69:POKE 25781,69 These pokes will effectively zero out the encoded name and handle built into the file. Now resave with the original filename.
Now .SDA it and upload. It would be nice to leave a note in the .SDA somewhere explaining the file will no longer be supported. If you do this, then by all means take credit for stripping the rego and bundling the files.
Thanks. I'm sorry I could not continue with the project. My wife and I just celebrated the birth of a daughter. This, combined with the opening of a business and general lack of interest (sorry!), has put this on the shelf permanently. Thanks again. Drop me netmail if you have any questions or such.. I prolly won't monitor this echo again.
Oh, and thank you Russell Prater for having me here, Rod Gasson for your help, Fritz Oppliger for your RAMDOS notes and Jean Parrot for your friendship. Gaelyne, a wave goes to you as well.
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Qwkie X Left Single Quote
From : Ismael Cordeiro
Probably one year and a half ago, when Jean told me that when using QWKie he couldn't see the left single quotes that are supposed to be in one of my messages. I verified that QWKie didn't display them but I didn't bother going farther into it. This time I decided to see what's going on and found out that the problem could be solved with a single poke!
I have two versions of QWKie and each of them needs a poke in different locations. The first one is the unregistered version that is found as QWKIE31U.SDA or QWKIE31U.SFX. The poke is
POKE 24249,192
It's better to confirm before pokeing that that location and the next are the right ones. A PRINT PEEK (24249) should give 0 and a PRINT PEEK (24250) should give 65.
The other version is the registered one with the registration codes disabled according to Arthur's wishes and instructions that someone put in ccnga.uwaterloo.ca. The poke for it is
POKE 24973,192
Like the first one it's better to check before pokeing. A PRINT PEEK (24973) should give 0 and a PRINT PEEK (24974) should give 65.
With this modification QWKie will be able to display the left single quote in 80 columns and export it as PETSCII. In 40 columns QWKie will display a thick hyphen instead of the left single quote. That happens because Arthur forgot to define the left single quote in QWKie's character set, although he had defined other ASCII characters that doesn't exist in PETSCII, like
{SHIFT-+} {CBM--} {SHIFT--} ^ {$de}. However, five more pokes will correct that and they are the same for both versions:
Even if the locations are the same for both versions it's better to check before pokeing. The locations above should have, 0, 0, 0, 255 and 255, respectively.
Et voila! With these modifications QWKie will display beautiful left single quotes in 80 and 40 columns. For confirming it's true here's a line of left single quotes:
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Qwkrr Suggestion
From : Gaelyne Moranec
To : Russell Prater
G'day Russell,
RP> GM> next time you import or export a file - when the filename is
RP> GM> on the bottom line, have a play with the down and up arrow
RP> GM> keys on the top row of the keyboard. It surprised even me!
RP> GM> ;-)
RP> I'll be darned! Learned something I didn't know.
Same here -- and I'll lay odds that even though Mark Dowsett wrote the docs (from Rods messages), I'll bet even he didn't even know that trick.
It's one of those things... I was watching him doing some testing and asked him to repeat his keystroke, because it just didn't look familiar - and I was right. Another thing I learned was in the options menu, if you want to return to the original QWKRR defaults that it comes packaged with, it's "shift-r".
I also learned Jiffydos/RAMLink tricks too - like for moving to a specific directory, you can use a wildcard for the directory name. I thought it was egocentric at first because I'd forever see him typing in @cd qwkrr/me* ... it wasn't until I found out he has set of directories called qwkrr/messages that I realised he was using a wildcard for it.
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Printer spooler
From : Rod Gasson
Mark Keith asks:
MK> Looking for info to send data to a printer via GeoGable. So I can
MK> write a printer spooler to send data straight from disk file to
MK> printer!!
I can help with the printer/Geocable info, but I must tell you that you won't be able to "spool" data straight from disk to printer with it.. the data has to go "through" the computer first.
Anyway, this is a "simplified" version of the parallel printer code that I use with QWKRR and Browser..
