| Adding Config Blocks To Qlib Programs | BasConfig is a utility, written by Oliver Fink, that creates config blocks for Qliberator compiled programs. For those that don’t know, config blocks are extras chucks of data added to programs that are changeable by the user, using the program “config”. In other words, if you have a program and you want the user to | Sinclair QL |
| Editor's Forum | The QHJ is back. After a year of taking a break, I’m back in the programming spirit again. Of course, I have not been inactive during that time, as any reader of QL Today can attest. I just have not felt like writing any programs for a while. I guess I did get burnt out | Sinclair QL |
| End-Of-File Finding | A lot of the programs that I like to write are filters. They take a text file as input, do something to the file, and output the results to a second file. Doing this involves reading a file one line at a time. A way of doing this would be something like this: REPeat loop | Sinclair QL |
| MicroEmacs Line Numbering | I’ve been meaning to tinker around with MicroEmacs macros for some time, but never got around to it. Recently I decided to take the time to really give it a try. Of all of the text editors available for the QL, I think MicroEmacs is the most powerful. It’s macro language is the most robust | Sinclair QL |
| Regular Expressions | In all the years that I’ve been dealing with Unix, one of the things that I have not taken the time to really learn is Regular Expressions. Regular expressions are based on a mini-language used for pattern matching in a number of Unix search utilities. The most well known of these programs is grep and | Sinclair QL |
