The Sinclair QL Forum

While looking around the loft I came across a stack of my old Computer magazines, sorry no QL ones. But a few mentions of it in the run up to December 1984. But thumbing through a copy of Personal Computing Today for December 1984, I spotted a QL ad in the classified section at the back.
Made me laugh as it was for four utilities, one of which is to correct the overflow of the QL directory listing. I think anyone who as ever used the standard QL would have hated the directory listing overflow within the first few minutes of using one. It boggles the mind that they let even a basic fault like this through.

So is this the earliest Ad for QL software ?

AFAIK the key combination CTRL F5 was implemented in at least the JS ROM (to freeze window output until another key was pressed). Though you had to be quick sometimes

It was (AT LEAST) implemented in the JM ROM!

CTRL-F5 stopped the output on screen, ALWAYS!

It was (is?) very difficult to suppress this keystroke (at least for console windows [CON_...]).

The point I think was that CTRL F5 is too hit and miss with a DIR listing - too fast to gauge accurately even on BBQL.

At least the Toolkit 2 commands (assuming it was a TK2 feature) automatically pauses after a window full of filenames.

Before the auto-CTRL F5 this spawned a number of directory utilities software (such as the one mentioned and later my own The Cat).