Last issue Mark Martin reported on a Dutch BBS that was being run on a QL. I forgot to mention that the same person that wrote the QL BBS also wrote a number of other programs, that Mark has sent me.
The three major programs on the disk are: UNZIP96, QVIEW, and QBOX. UNZIP96 is a program that will unzip programs zipped with PKZIP, the popular MS-DOS utility. I have tried this and it really does work. QVIEW is a terminal program. Since the documentation is in Dutch, I have yet to try it. QBOX is the QL BBS. It’s not a plug ‘n play system. The designer found some problems with the QL serial ports and basically had to design his own serial port. It’s all detailed in the QBOX documentation, including any other problems running a BBS on a QL.
Of the above programs, I find UNZIP96 the most usefull. With this utility, you can download a Zipped MS-DOS file (using xmodem) and unzip it on the QL and use the files. In the past, one would have to use an MS-DOS system (or emulator) to unzip the files before they could be used on the QL.
All of the files that I have received from Mark Martin are available from the QHJ.