Though I was "running" REBOL/view, I "exited to console", and used a
REBOL/core word:
>> while [true][prin "."]
as a test "script". (forever [prin "."] is even shorter) So I assumed this
was a valid contribution to the REBOL mail list.
Yes, as others have replied here, the escape key exits the loop, while the
alt key pauses and resumes the loop. Very nice!
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 12:01 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Endless looping processes. Re:(3)
> 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 >> [: - )]
>
