With this issue the QHJ is now 1 year old. It’s been fun publishing the QHJ. It’s given me a chance to write the kind of articles that I want to write; those aimed at QL programmers. It’s also kind of neat to have complete editorial control.
Over the last year I have “meet” a number of interesting QL users from all over. Just via e-mail I have meet 4 QL users. With QL users/programmers spread out all over the globe, e-mail is a very effective way to keep in contact. It’s far faster then regular mail.
For those QL persons interested in getting into e-mail on the Internet, there are a number of Public Access Unix systems around the country that allow users e-mail access for free or a minimal fee. If you are interested, let me know and I’ll send you a listing of Public Access Unix systems. Odds are there is one near you. If you are at college, see you Computer Department to see if they have any computers on the Internet. You could get access this way.
One note about format. I’ve dispensed with the Table of Contents. Now that I am using MicroEmacs and a print formating program, I don’t know what page each article starts on until I print the issue. In the past I’ve printed it twice, once to find out the page numbers. To have time and effort, I’ve cut out the Table of Contents. Since the QHJ is not very big, I foresee any problems.
A note of warning to any MicroEmacs users out there. I’ve run across a bug with both versions 3.8 and 3.9 when you have run out of memory. I ran out of memory while putting this issue together. I deleted a few characters to bring me below the limit and then saved the file. The save took too long and only twice briefly wrote to disk. MicroEmacs said that X lines were written, but upon switching to QDOS, I found that the file had no size. I had to delete quite a number of lines before it would save properly.
To prevent this problem, I’ve recompiled MicroEmacs (3.9) and told it to grab all available memory. I will only use this version of MicroEmacs when doing large files.
Well, I wish the best to you all for the new year. May your code be error free and you compiles fast.