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And for those still holding their breath waiting for a reply to the original question, Im sure Bob wont mind be posting his fix: sp_appbd% = 534: rem Application window border sp_scrbar% = 545: rem Pan/scroll bar sp_scrbarsec% = 546: rem Pan/scroll bar section sp_scrbararr% = 547: rem Pan/scroll bar...

I'll revive this ancient thread for my question: Does anyone know how to get rid of the scroll arrows in Wman? Ie I only want to see the scroll bar (when needed), not those mickymouse arrows. Is there a way of turning them off? Im using EasyPtr but am not averse to poking the Working Definition if n...

It shouldnt be hard to devise a small test rig to see whether such a method eats memory by fragmenting it. (Just note that SBASIC, SuperBASIC, and compilers may all behave differently.) I did a lot of tests over questions like this back in the day. Although I cant now remember the exact results, I t...

Ok, a few minor changes and for Per, a QL executable! On emulators, you need sysvars.exe , and on the QL itself, or emulators which don't understand the new header arrangement, you need sysvars.xtcc_exe instead. The window is the standard one opened by the initialisation of the job, 512 by 256 at 0...

Apologies for harping on this theme.. Im one of those few remaining fools who refuse to see my "QL" as a retro machine. True, it cant be my main machine any more, for no fault of its own, as it has fallen by the wayside, having been surpassed by inferior, but better funded, systems. <> the...

It works, Norm! (As was to be expected ;)) But I hope this isnt going to be the New Normal for zip files now: Qdos EXecutables to have an Ecstasy [XTcc] header rather than being native Qdos. To my mind it would be better to zip native Qdos files using a Qdos-enabled zip. They can still be unzipped t...

<> Slightly more appealing to me would be the Buffee solution https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=105641 which also comes with 68000 socket. That one just provides a fast CPU and memory but does not depend on a fullblown Linux system. "The optimistic goal is about a 3.2GHz 68030 which is ar...

Same goes for fop_in(<devn><dir>) so, clearly, its a feature.

<>Somewhere back in this thread/topic, Marcel posted a bit of code from SMSQ which checks the return from IO_DELET/IOA_DELF and zeros out D0 if the error code is ERR_NF, so it's a deliberate change in SMSQ. QDOS, of old, on the other hand, does return an error for attempting to delete a non-existen...

<> DeleteFile : Appears to be fully working but only as per SMSQ. If a file is not found, no errors are returned. Basically, always returns true on SMSQ. On QDOS, it should return an error. Deletes an existing file, returns true. Doesn't delete a missing file, but still returns true -- as per the S...