| Editor's Forum |
Welcome to the first issue of the QL Hacker’s Journal. This publication is meant to fill the gap in publications already available. There are a number of good magazines that cover programming, but, due to popularity, do not cover the QL. There are also some good User Group Newletters that cover the QL, but are |
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| Minix on the QL |
For those that don’t know what Minix is; Minix is a small Unix like operating system written by Andrew Tannenbaum to be used as an instructional aide in Operating System classes. Felix Croes started working on porting Minix to the QL from the Atari ST version. Erwin Dondorp (dondorp@fwi.uva.nl) has taken over the task. He |
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| Pursuit of a Public Domain C Compiler |
Mark Wahl, at student at UC Berkeley, has been looking into a public domain C compiler that can be ported to the QL. As some of you may already know, the only public domain C compiler for the QL is the Small C compiler available from the Quanta Library. Small C only supports a subset |
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| Ratcliff/Obershelp Pattern Matching |
In the July 1988 Issue of “Dr. Dobb’s Journal”, there is an article on Ratcliff/Obershelp pattern matching. This algorithm is designed to compare two strings and return a percentage of how close they are to each other. A result of 67 means that the two strings are 67% alike. This algorithm can be used to |
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| Structured SuperBasic Version 2.3 |
INTRODUCTION Structured SuperBasic (SSB) is another way of writing SuperBasic programs. It allows programmers to write SuperBasic programs without line numbers and with white space between blocks. SSB is essentially a filter. It takes in a program file that is written in SSB and outputs a program file that is in SuperBasic. SSB programs are |
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| The Quebec Link |
This excerpt is from “The Quebec Link” column in the Sinc-Link Newsletter from the Toronto T/S Users Group. Default device on the QL Say you are writting a program and it is important to know from which device the user is running it. What can you do? If the user’s QL is equipped with TOOLKIT |
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