====== QPAC2 ======
QPAC2 is a set of utilities written by [[qlwiki:Qjump]] which provide various small programs which run under the [[qlwiki:QL Front Ends|QJUMP pointer environment]] and are controlled using either the keyboard or a mouse.


Its various utilities replace those which appeared in the earlier [[qlwiki:QRAM]].


QPAC2 includes the Pointer Environment and adds the following utilities which are all accessed from the QPAC2 button frame (normally a bar across the top of the screen with various buttons in it to start programs):



  * Sysdef - This allows you to set printer and mouse settings, plus alter the default data and program default directories, as well the destination device.\\ 
  * Things Menu - (This can be a little hard to understand as a 'Thing' is a bit of code in memory which can be called using a standard calling block - it can be a device driver, a program, or a pop-up menu) - This menu allows you examine what is using each thing and the resources that thing is using (such as channels); you can also execute a thing or Wake it.\\ 
  * Jobs Menu - This allows you to examine jobs (channels and things used by the Job, memory usage), pick a job, remove a job and alter the job's priority\\ 
  * Hotkeys Menu - This allows you to view all defined hotkeys and execute the hotkey directly.\\ 
  * Channels Menu - This allows you to view all channels open on the sytem and find out what is using them - you can also close the channels directly or remove any Job which owns the channel\\ 
  * Files Menu - This is perhaps the most powerful menu, allowing you to get directories of devices (and sub-directories), copy, move, rename or delete files, view or print files, or execute them.  When executing files, you can specify whether they are to be unlocked (can overwrite anything else on screen), need a guardian window (to ensure that all of the screen used by the program is cleared and protected when switching between jobs), or if it is a Psion program (ie. needs to be prevented from grabbing all of the QL's available memory).  File lists can be sorted using a number of options, and you can view file statistics for each file.\\ 


QPAC2 also installs a RAM disk and printer spooler, plus the ability to make an image of a microdrive cartridge (by using FORMAT ram1_mdv1 for example).


After Tony Tebby left the QL scene it was further developed and updated for current SMSQ/E systems by [[qlwiki:Marcel Kilgus]]. 


QPAC2 has been released as freeware in early 2014.


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Title: **QPAC2**\\ 
Language: 68000 Machine Code\\ 
Author: [[qlwiki:Tony Tebby]]\\ 
Publisher: [[qlwiki:QJUMP]]\\ 
Year of Publication: 1988\\ 
Platforms Suitable for: All Sinclair QLs and Compatibles\\ 
Commercial Status: Freeware\\ 
Price as at May 1987: Unknown\\ 
Reviews: Unknown\\ 
Sources Available from: Unknown\\ 
Latest Version available from: [[http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/qpac2.html|Marcel Kilgus website]]\\