> Shouldn't they return the same thing on Rebol?
> It seems like they should.
>
> Is this a bug?
>
I doubt it. What would be the point of such information? It it is clearly
platform specific information. With my Rebol hammer, I'm seeing most
problems as nails, but is this going a little far?
[snip something I can't comment on.]
>
> Even if it is cool for Unix wizards to have whatever this
> info is, it will be a drag for them if they write a script
> using that info and expecting it to work everywhere...
I don't know what info is there, but I can guess, so I suspect that it may
even be a drag to expect that the information would work even on the same
platform at a later time. It may be that the result on Windows may be the
better behaviour - don't know really.
Brett.
>
> -Galt
>
> >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
> >Without the final '/', read attempts to access the directory as an actual
> >file. On mess-doss this causes an error, while on *nix it returns some
> >nice binary stuff which only wizards know how to use.
> >
> >With the final '/', read returns a block of names found within the
directory.
> >
> >For example, in the MICROS~1 world:
> >
> >>> foo: read %Examples
> >** Access Error: Cannot open /C/bin/REBOL/Examples.
> >** Where: foo: read %Examples
> >>> foo: read %Examples/
> >== [%all.r %index.html %webprint.r %webget.r %webgetter.r %weblib.r
%websend.
> >r %webfind.r %webfinder.r %webcheck.r %webloop.r %webt...
> >>>
> >
> >And in the *nix world:
> >
> >>> foo: read %java
> >==
>
{^@H^@^@^@^@^[A^@\^@^G^@^@classes^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^
@
> >^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^...
> >>> foo: read %java/
> >== [%classes/]
> >>>
> >
> >-jn-
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> an absolute path is like this:
> >> %/c/cygwin/
> >> %/d/games/afile
> >> etc..
> >>
> >> Hope that's what you're after.
> >> By the way, somebody once said it's better to specify dirs with the '/'
on
> the end. I forget why...
> >>
> >> Anton.
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> > I want to create a configuration file which loads in some functions I
> wrote. I wrote a verbose description of the program below, but then
figured:
> "Gee, REBOL is actually more concise and easy to understand than my
English!"
> >> >
> >> > REBOL []
> >> >
> >> > rebol-dir: "/cygwin/home/administrator/rebol"
> >> >
> >> > j: join rebol-dir "/vindex.r"
> >> >
> >> > f: to-file j
> >> >
> >> > do f
> >> >
> >> > so I have two questions:
> >> >
> >> > 1- how can i use "c:/cygwin/home/administrator/rebol" instead of just
> >> > "/cygwin/home/administrator/rebol" so that I can use directories
which
> may be on any drive?
> >> >
> >> > 2- As it stands, this script just hangs even though there is a file
> called vindex.r in the created directory path
> >> >
> >> > Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications at
> >> > http://comm.lycos.com
> >
> >--
> >; Joel Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] 901-263-4460 38017/HKA/9677
> >REBOL [] print to-string debase/64 decompress #{
> > 789C0BCE0BAB4A7176CA48CAB53448740FABF474F3720BCC
> > B6F4F574CFC888342AC949CE74B50500E1710C0C24000000}
>
