| Dice Percentages |
I’m still distracted by my other hobby, wargaming. In tying the two together, I thought about dice, percentages, and To-Hit rolls. In gaming a To-Hit roll is a die roll, where your try to roll a certain value or less. For example, for a To-Hit roll of 10 with 2 six-sided die (2d6), you would |
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| Editor's Forum |
Again another issue has taken longer than I wanted to come out. Since the last issue one important thing has happened to further complicate my life. Her name is Ashlyn Nicole; 7 Lbs 2 oz, born 23 November at 5:17 PM. Recently I attended a local book sale, that had a good selection of computer |
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| PROLOG Interpreter: A Second Look |
Back in QHJ #13 I have a cursory review of the Prolog interpreter written by Hans Lub. I said that when I found the book that the interpreter was based upon, I could look into it further. Well, I found the book; The Art of Prolog by Sterling and Shapiro. Even though Hans described the |
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| QHJ Reader Survey |
In the time that I’ve been doing the QHJ I have received responses like “good job”, “nice work”, but very little actual comments (good or bad) on the overall content of the QHJ. In thinking of what to put into this issue, the idea of a reader survey popped in to my head. I am |
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| QL ANON-FTP SERVER |
I have recently found a QL FTP site that allows the storage of binary files. The site name is: maya.dei.unipd.it I am guessing that it is being run by one of the Zannetti brothers in Italy. The key advantage of this FTP site is the fast distribution of QL software. As an example, version 4 |
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| Quill Reader |
One of the major defects of QUILL is the lack of an “EXPORT” function. Only after release 2.35, PSION added the export command. But also in this case, if we want ascii text from a doc, we have to : 1) load QUILL2) load the document3) select the export option4) export the document5) quit QUILL6) |
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