SMSQ/E documentation

[prime]

Hi all,

Is there anywhere any user documentation for SMSQ/E I've tried looking and found the stuff in the doumentation section of Dilwyn's site but it all seems to relate to the graphics drivers.

Specifically I'm chasing my tail trying to work out how to correctly use the devX_ devices

if I do :

DEV_USE 8,win1_smsqe_

and then wdir dev8_util_ it lists no files if I do dev8_smsqe_util_ I get files I thought the whole point of dev was to be able to shorten paths ?

Is there a way of finding out what devX_ replaces e.g. like dos_drive$(X) etc ?

Cheers.

Phill.

[dilwyn]

Hi all,

Is there anywhere any user documentation for SMSQ/E I've tried looking and found the stuff in the doumentation section of Dilwyn's site but it all seems to relate to the graphics drivers.

Specifically I'm casing my tail trying to work out how to correctly use the devX_ devices

if I do :

DEV_USE 8,win1_smsqe_

and then wdir dev8_util_ it lists no files if I do dev8_smsqe_util_ I get files I thought the whole point of dev was to be able to shorten paths ?

Is there a way of finding out what devX_ replaces e.g. like dos_drive$(X) etc ?

Cheers.

Phill.

PRINT DEV_USE$(X)

e.g. DEV_USE 1,win1_quill_
PRINT DEV_USE$(1)
prints win1_quill_

Regarding documentation, I wonder now that SMSQ/E is free to download from the SMSQ/E Registrar's site whether Jochen could be persuaded to release the original SMSQ documents? Always assuming that they're not bundled somewhere in the SMSQ/E sources, which I haven't checked.

[tofro]

Phil,
the best SMSQ/E end user docs are on Marcel's site, IMHO. Organized like the original QL manuals in concepts and keywords.

http://kilgus.net/qpc/QPC_Keywords.pdf
http://kilgus.net/qpc/QPC_Concepts.pdf

Your particular question would best be answered by
- DEV_LIST or
- PRINT DEV_USE$(number)

And dev_ is a bit tricky as it doesn't work together with default directories at you would normally expect.

And no, there's no such thing as end-user docs in the source tree.

Tobias

[Silvester]

Hi all,

Is there anywhere any user documentation for SMSQ/E I've tried looking and found the stuff in the doumentation section of Dilwyn's site but it all seems to relate to the graphics drivers.

Specifically I'm casing my tail trying to work out how to correctly use the devX_ devices

if I do :

DEV_USE 8,win1_smsqe_

and then wdir dev8_util_ it lists no files if I do dev8_smsqe_util_ I get files I thought the whole point of dev was to be able to shorten paths ?

Is there a way of finding out what devX_ replaces e.g. like dos_drive$(X) etc ?

Cheers.

Phill.

PRINT DEV_USE$(X)

e.g. DEV_USE 1,win1_quill_
PRINT DEV_USE$(1)
prints win1_quill_

Regarding documentation, I wonder now that SMSQ/E is free to download from the SMSQ/E Registrar's site whether Jochen could be persuaded to release the original SMSQ documents? Always assuming that they're not bundled somewhere in the SMSQ/E sources, which I haven't checked.

I have a copy of the first CDROM of SMSQ/E sources direct from Wolfgang (May 2002). Along with Tony Tebby last version 2.99 sources, they also contain user & programmer documentation files (SMSQ/E, GOLD, QXL, ATARI, etc). Though I have just noticed the GOLD user guide I got from Jochen in 1997 with v2.90 has a bit more info(!). I think Jochen must have taken over documentation from Tony (his Word docs are watermark dated around 1994/5).

From what I have seen of the sources distribution since, the docs have not been made available so I don't know their status (especially programmers docs, some are marked confidential). If allowed I could at least convert user guides to PDFs and post them.

<re-edit> Postscript - still can't get quote to work right yet