Well, this is untested code as I'm crunching away on some other stuff, but try: foreach line text [ print line write/append DstFile [line newline] ;HOPEFULLY DOES NOT CRASH HERE!! ] instead. Yes it's probably _very_ slow plus the other thing should never crash REBOL. That will be looked into. Sterling > I'm reposting this, as I've had no takers from the > previous, and I note that Holger may be monitoring.... > I have tried a couple of different approaches to rewrite a file > and an FTP site, and the result is always that rebol crashes > and Dr. Watson intervenes. > (Current version of view). > Here's the code, I'd welcome comments. > ;================================================ > DstFile: ftp://usr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/log.txt > SrcFile: ftp://usr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/log.bak > text: read/lines DstFile > if exists? SrcFile [delete SrcFile] > rename DstFile SrcFile > ;print type? text > DstPort: open/new/write DstFile > foreach line text > [ > print line > append DstPort [line newline] ;CRASHES HERE!! > ] > close DstPort > > ; I am running from a Win NT 4.0 Workstation Platform with upgrade > ; 5.0 > ; I am writing to a Linux machine. > > I can make this work if I do the rewrite on my machine and then > FTP it to the site, but it would be just wonderful if I can do > the backup and editing at the site. > > TIA > Tim > > >
