Hi,
hitting the Escape key (conveniently labeled Esc on my 10 function key
version of the AT IBM keyboard), will stop a running REBOL script. (Note
that if the script is waiting for a response from some remote computer,
i.e. when you use ftp for instance, it may take a time until REBOL
evaluates the keyboard input and the excape key is detected.)
Example:
Here's an endless loop:
>> forever []
which terminates when I hit the escape key:
>> forever []
>>
At 10:52 AM 5/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
>REBOL/view 3 won't stop by pressing "enter" or any control combination I
>tried. I had to use "control-alt-delete" in Win98 SE, which offers the
>option of stopping REBOL. I seem to remember an early version of REBOL/core
>having some key combination to stop runaway loops, but I don't remember what
>it was.
>
>Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:26 AM
>Subject: [REBOL] Endless looping processes. Re:
>
>
>>
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > Dear rebol-list,
>> >
>> > I recently started using Rebol on my WebServer, and it works very
>> > nice, I'm nearly done with a script that checks if domains are taken or
>> > not at different whois servers.
>> >
>> > But anyway.. to the point.
>> >
>> > Yesterday I was writing some new things, and due to that I'm not
>> > entirely into the Rebol language yet I make some typos and stuff.
>> >
>> > I wanted to find the last "." of a string, I cannot remember exactly
>> > the code but i took it from the "Core users guide".
>>
>> find/last string "."
>>
>> > Yes, the point.. This function made a endless loop and printed lots of
>> > lines with "." on,
>>
>> what function please? Could you post it's code, please?
>>
>> > this did not stop, and I pressed "Stop" in
>> > Netscape.
>>
>> well, known thing - pressing Stop in Netscape very often doesn't mean
>> Netscape will stop :-)))
>>
>> > Only later i found that for every endless loop I left a
>> > Rebol.exe running on the server (NT) taking about 30% CPU time, and
>> > the server was crawling.
>> >
>> > Windows NT will not let me kill these processes, and they did not seem
>> > to stop.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to kill a rebol process?
>>
>> That's not question related to rebol, right? If you can't kill NT process,
>> then how to stop infinite loop?
>>
>> > Or can I stop a script that is running from the console or something ?
>>
>> What console? Rebol one? Just press enter. If you are talking about NT
>> console, then some NT folks will give you surely an answer ...
>>
>> > Thanks for the time, hoping for answer.
>>
>> You are welcome ...
>>
>> -pekr-
>>
>> > Regards, Fredrik Bergstrom
>> >
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>
>
>
;- Elan >> [: - )]
