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RWAP wrote:Thanks - I have reached out to Colin about the QL software and making it freeware.

FINDN:
LOCAL A$(20)
CLS
PRINT"FIND:";
TRAP INPUT A$
OP:
FIND (A$)
WHILE NOT EOF
I%=DISP(-1,A$)
IF I%=13
NEXT 
FIND (A$)
ELSEIF I%=1
CLOSE
RETURN
ELSEIF I%=66
BACK
ELSEIF I%=76
LAST
ELSEIF I%=70
FIRST
ELSEIF I%=85
UD:
ELSEIF I%=80
PR:
ELSEIF I%=68
DE:
ELSEIF I%=72
CLS
I%=COUNT
PRINT "RECORDS:";I%
VIEW(2,"FIRST LAST BACK UPDATE PRINT DELETE")
ENDIF
ENDWH
CLOSE
BEEP 200,200

Chr$ wrote:Transform of Beckenham, best known for their mdv storage boxes and the odd bit of QL software - are still going! Nowadays it's websites for celebrity chefs and selling stuff on QVC:

https://www.transformeurope.com/index.html

The main man Colin Hughes presents a jazz radio program - right now! Wednesdays, 8pm to 10pm UK time, here:

https://www.strawberryjazz.com/

Chr$ wrote:

RWAP wrote:Thanks - I have reached out to Colin about the QL software and making it freeware.

I've got a Transform mdv here that unfortunately doesn't work called QL-Organiser. There are mostly very small files on the mdv and it seems most of the important ones (code files) have corruption. This is an example of the contents of one of the small files:

...

Some kind of search routine? But for what?

tofro wrote:

Thats definitely the Psion Organiser's OPL language - Nothing for the QL.

• boot
  clone*
  names_pro_org
  pr_pro_org
  ptr_pro_org
  findn_pro_org
  de_pro_org
  ud_pro_org
  pm_pro_org*
  cr_pro_org
  add_pro_org
  ed_pro_org
  opb_pro_org
  opa_pro_org
  opc_pro_org
  boot_obj*
  boot_flp
  boot_mdv
  Qlib_ext*
  dir

vanpeebles wrote:Hold on! Could this be the software to connect a psion organiser II, to a QL??

vanpeebles wrote:You might have to try a few times to recover them, I’ve always wanted to try the psion connected to the ql.