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hi,
I have successfully installed my new QL-SD kit into my QL (i have a 512 memory expansion giving me a total of 640MB ram). I am somewhat a newcomer to the QL but i am simply trying to run the likes of Quill etc from the SD card. I am able to do a DIR SDC1_ and see the office dir and then do a DIR SDC1_Office to see the contents of office etc. When i try and simply type LRUN OFFICE_QUILL_BOOT, the application starts to load the application and then gives me a "not found" error.

Can someone help me. Again, i am just getting into the QL and would massively appreciate your help.
Thanks
Dan Patterson.

I assume it is because the Psion programs are designed to run from either mdv1_ (microdrive) or flp1_ (disk). The QL has no easy means of files being loaded from relative paths, so that means that programs have to be patched or similar to get them to run from different devices.

Have a look at the boot program with:
Then: At some point it will say:
or
You can edit that line to read which should load the program, but unfortunately, this is not the best solution, as Quill will still try to access flp1_ (or mdv2_) if you press F1 for help.

So how do you overcome this....

a) You can use an editor (such as SPY Editor from http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/editview/index.html) to edit each file and change references from flp1_ to sdc1_ (but this assumes all files are stored in the base directory, not a sub-directory).
b) You can issue the command which basically renames the sdc device to be used by DIR flp1_ instead of DIR sdc1_ (I think that is the correct command - I do not own a QL-SD)
However, again, this does not deal with sub-directories...

c) You can use the DEV toolkit (http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/index.html) - this allows you to use commands such as:
Now - this is a little complex.

DIR flp1_
is redirected to be the same as
DIR dev1_

However, the chain above, says that attempts to access dev1_ should actually look within the subdirectory sdc1_OFFICE_QUILL_

You could then use,
and attempts to access flp2_ from within Quill (for save document etc) would then be redirected to dev2_, which in turn looks at the sub-directory sdc1_OFFICE_DOCS_

Hope this is not too confusing...

Hi Rich
As always, massive thanks!

Has anyone else had issues with getting office to run from the ql-sd using the provided sd card image? More importantly, has anyone got it to run succesfully? If so, can you share how.

Thanks
Dan

RWAP wrote: c) You can use the DEV toolkit (http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/index.html) - this allows you to use commands such as:

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DEV_USE 1,sdc1_OFFICE_QUILL_
DEV_USE flp

Now - this is a little complex.

DIR flp1_
is redirected to be the same as
DIR dev1_

However, the chain above, says that attempts to access dev1_ should actually look within the subdirectory sdc1_OFFICE_QUILL_

You could then use,

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DEV_USE 2,sdc1_OFFICE_DOCS_

and attempts to access flp2_ from within Quill (for save document etc) would then be redirected to dev2_, which in turn looks at the sub-directory sdc1_OFFICE_DOCS_

Hope this is not too confusing...

Note the DEV toolkit needs HOTKEY system 2 (part of the PTR Environment) to run. That's not pointed out in the manual and might confuse you at first (and, without a proper hint, at second as well ). Unfortunately DEV just says "not found" if HOTKEY missing whithout telling what it didn't find....

Tobias

Ha! And I just see Dilwyn has added a reference to that fact on his page. Good boy!