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It's QL5B and the sector size is 2048 bytes, so for direct access you should open 'flpx_*D4e'.

Jan.

I've had problems reading floppies too. I remember QPC2 v3 worked fine but v4 did not, at least not on Windows 7. I also remember at least v3 worked on XP, maybe v4 too. In the end I archived all my floppies as .flp images using Linux's dd command, which QPC reads happily. No experience on Windows 1...

Evening Giorgio, the backup date in the file header is used by WinBack, to store the date the file was last backed up and to compare with the "last modified date" when checking whether or not the file needs backing up. I suspect other backup utilities do a similar thing, but I did it firs...

QED v2.02 has been released and can be downloaded here . New features ------------ - The RC command can now be used to load a file in cooked mode. It is equivalent to the R command, except that CR/LF line endings are converted to LF and TABS compressed or expanded according to the TAB compression an...

I'm very pleased to present you release 2.01 of QED, my ever popular text editor! This release comes exactly 30 years after version 1.01, which has been included in many QL software distributions. New features include: * Support for TK2 Data Default directories * Editing multiple files simultaneousl...

Thank you Nasta for this very exhaustive description! The answer to most of the remaining questions can be found in the Minerva source code (notably the inc/pc include file). For instance, the Interface interrupt calls a routine which reads the keyboard and serial input data, but the same routine al...

I've been working mostly from the desktop. So, I've just looked in the Zip file, and yes there is a file '".uqlxrc" with <user> in it. So it does exist, I just cant see it. When you copy it to the Home directory, Do I have to retain the ".", so it remains invisible? If I want to...

There is no .uqlxrc file, but there is a .uqlxrc-distro file. In Linux/Unix, file names starting with a dot are normally hidden when using the ls command, you can see them using 'ls -a' or 'ls -al'. So I copied that to the Home directory (/home/martin/), and renamed it .uqlxrc When it says 'edit th...

But I'm curious if comparing A6 to the start of the job code will guarantee that your code is executing as a job. This might be true when you EXEC or HOT_LOAD a program (since this allocates space for both code and data and then loads and executes the code) but what about HOT_RES, which only alloca...

Oh, right, I didn't remember that QD could be LRESPRed. Funnily enough this is the exact same bug that I diagnosed only a week ago in another tool and even wrote a blog post about: https://www.kilgus.net/2018/08/08/qdos-to-lrespr-or-not/ . I used to test D1 from SMS.INFO (see Multimon source) but i...