[REBOL] Big Brother

2000-07-06 Thread ddalley
Is there a REBOL way of acquiring the pictures out of the stream from CBS's "Big Brother"? I received a "Not Implemented" error. http://bb1.stream.aol.com:8080/ramgen/adtag/general/live/bblive1.smi http://bb1.stream.aol.com:8080/ramgen/adtag/general/live/bblive2.smi

[REBOL] Automation query... Re:

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi TBrownell, you wrote: Hi. What is the best way to run a script on a timer basis? I have a script that that fires off another that checks a pop account every minute and then runs any scripts it finds. This is a bit thick, but it works... N: repeat 100 [wait 60 do %popreader.r] You

[REBOL] Automation query... Re:

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi, I just noticed that Windows has a problem with colons in file names. This should work better if you're running under MS Windows (under linux, you can disregard the modification): REBOL [] forever [ wait 60 if error? set/any 'error try [ do %popreader.r ] [ date: replace form now

[REBOL] Find speed Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread lmecir
Hi, regarding memoizing. There is a class of functions, that must use some kind of memoizing to work at all, I think. The number of the possibilities for parameters does not matter, you can store only important results (depending on what you consider important - eg. expensive or recent

[REBOL] An experiment with RTF Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread bhandley
Thats a point. Unfortunately I don't have it (the latest version), but my sister does. I'll get her to send me something. Thanks. Word can also export as XML which you could parse much easier with Rebol. :) Deryk

[REBOL] FAQ Generator/Editor

2000-07-06 Thread deryk
Another tool I use around the shop for easy editing and creation of FAQ's. Availability: normal: http://users.iitowns.com/deryk/rebol/faqr.tar.gz Rebol: do http://users.iitowns.com/deryk/rebol/faqr.rip To change final generated page layout, edit the variables at the top of makefaq.r

[REBOL] Odd results

2000-07-06 Thread deryk
'lo gang. Here is a wierd one which has me stumped. Why will the following not work? REBOL [ Title: "InformeR" File: %informer.r Author: "Deryk Robosson" Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04-Jul-2000 Purpose: { A simple menthod for providing simple requesters } ] image-path:

[REBOL] Does rebol --do print 123 for e.g. work for ya? Re:

2000-07-06 Thread bhandley
Um, yup. Win NT4 REBOL/Core 2.3.0.3.1 REBOL/View 0.9.9.3.1 Brett. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:04 PM Subject: [REBOL] Does rebol --do "print 123" for e.g. work for ya? Hi, I am just curious if running rebol

[REBOL] Odd results Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread deryk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Deryk, One of the reasons you are getting errors is that an 'inform dialog cannot be shown as the first/only face. But as below shows you can re-use you dialog as much as you like after it has a parent face. Yup, okay, I can understand that (don't know why,

[REBOL] Big Brother Re:(3)

2000-07-06 Thread hammiche
Thank you for your help I sent a fixed version of the script before i get your response :-) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:07 PM Subject: [REBOL] Big Brother Re:(2) Hey - this is pretty cool! I fixed the axis one

[REBOL] An experiment with RTF Re:

2000-07-06 Thread norsepower
Well, it all depends on HOW they will be updating the site and what is it on the site they will be updating? I've written a script which allows people to update a site of news headlines by sending an e-mail to an e-mail address. If you know WHICH content you want them to update, you can do the

[REBOL] An experiment with RTF Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread Bosch
There are a few very good applications especially for people who believe in just what you said (content/seperation, writing content for the web instead of writing HTML for the web) if you want, i can dig up the appropriate url's, but these might be worth checking out: -

[REBOL] Does rebol --do print 123 for e.g. work for ya? Re:

2000-07-06 Thread Christian . Ensel
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 06-Jul-00, You wrote: I am just curious if running rebol with command line parameters work for you? I get following error: REBOL --do "print 123" works fine for REBOL/Core 2.3.0.1.1 22-Jun-2000 ; i.e. Amiga 68020+ version As does DEMO disabled REBOL/View

[REBOL] Re:Com port parameters.

2000-07-06 Thread webdev
Thanks for the pointer Brett. Seems a little odd that a "messaging system" would not be inclined to talk or at least listen to something as fundamental as a com port. Think of all the serial devices hanging off the end of PCs that need monitoring in real time. Given that I just "discovered"

[REBOL] Com port parameters. Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread RChristiansen
Perhaps the thought is that COM port addressing has already been deprecated in favor of tcp/ip addressing to wireless devices? -Ryan Thanks for the pointer Brett. Seems a little odd that a "messaging system" would not be inclined to talk or at least listen to something as fundamental as

[REBOL] Com port parameters. Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the pointer Brett. Seems a little odd that a "messaging system" would not be inclined to talk or at least listen to something as fundamental as a com port. Think of all the serial devices hanging off the end of PCs that need monitoring in real time.

[REBOL] Does rebol --do print 123 for e.g. work for ya? Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 06-Jul-00, You wrote: I am just curious if running rebol with command line parameters work for you? I get following error: REBOL --do "print 123" works fine for REBOL/Core 2.3.0.1.1 22-Jun-2000 ; i.e. Amiga 68020+ version As

[REBOL] one more time

2000-07-06 Thread balayo
one more time howdy again, I'm stumped. Why do I get this with REBOL 2.3.0.4.2: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and not with 2.2.0.4.2? I ran "update", and I'm using the libc6 version... does anyone have a clue?

[REBOL] one more time Re:

2000-07-06 Thread kevin
I'm stumped. Why do I get this with REBOL 2.3.0.4.2: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and not with 2.2.0.4.2? Hi Tom, What version of libtermcap does your Linux box have installed? (Look in /lib) If you don't

[REBOL] one more time Re:

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi Tom, to make things a little more interesting, under Redhat Linux 2.2.15 I am having absolutely no problems. Which Linux distribution are you using? At 12:59 PM 7/6/00 +0100, you wrote: one more time howdy again, I'm stumped. Why do I get this with REBOL 2.3.0.4.2: error in loading

[REBOL] Does rebol --do print 123 for e.g. work for ya? Re:

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi Petr, works fine for me. I can duplicate your error if I leave away the surrounding "", i.e. if instead of rebol --do "print 123" I enter rebol --do print 123 ;- Elan [ : - ) ]

[REBOL] An experiment with RTF Re:

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi Brett, would you consider using AbiWord? It's a beautiful, open source, portable word processor (still in prelease, but it rocks). The advantage is that uses an XML based page description language that can easily be parsed using REBOL's XML parser and then converted into the appropriate HTML.

[REBOL] Find speed Re:(3)

2000-07-06 Thread icimjs
Hi Ladislav, your test function is responsible for the results you get, not the hash! The critical code in the time-blk function is start: now loop :count :block finish: now When you test the hash function, your timing function (time-blk) loops over the block: [

[REBOL] one more time Re:

2000-07-06 Thread ingo
Hi Tom, yes, I found that, too. rebol _once_again_ uses libtermcap, instead of libncurses, it's the only change between 2.2 and 2.3 regarding libraries. Debian/Gnu Linux on the other hand regards libtermcap as outdated, and only supports a libc5 version of libtermcap. SO, what to do now?

[REBOL] one more time Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm stumped. Why do I get this with REBOL 2.3.0.4.2: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and not with 2.2.0.4.2? Hi Tom, What version of libtermcap does your Linux box have

[REBOL] Big Brother on topic Re:

2000-07-06 Thread ddalley
On 06-Jul-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The rebol side of the Big Brother discussion is interesting, Yes, I was pleased that someone finally released a web cam Viewer. I'd love to see Mr Mourad's program expanded to include many more features, such as a site selection scroll list

[REBOL] Does rebol --do print 123 for e.g. work for ya? Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Petr, works fine for me. I can duplicate your error if I leave away the surrounding "", i.e. if instead of rebol --do "print 123" I enter rebol --do print 123 What about following complicated registry entry? ""d:\REBOL\View\rebol.exe" -q "%1"" :-)

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones.

2000-07-06 Thread bga
Hello. I have been monitoring the progress of REBOL since its first release but only now I will start to use it to do something usefull. I created a simple script to read a web page and to send it to an email address (send user@host read http://www.server). The problem is that there are

[REBOL] Com port parameters. Setting How? Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread ljurado
I found another (and smallest) serial to tcp/ip program at http://www.emtec.com My understanding is you cannot access the com port directly from Rebol. However, I used IPComserver a program by http://www.iox.co.za to essentially give the Com port a tcp/ip port. Then I could use Rebol with

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones. Re:

2000-07-06 Thread yaozhang
parse page: read http://www.server [ some [thru "SRC=^"" here: (insert here "http://www.server")] to end ] ; not tested -z --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have been monitoring the progress of REBOL since its first release but only now I will start to use it to do something

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones. Re:

2000-07-06 Thread RChristiansen
The absolute path to your Web directory does not involve the http url. For example, the path to an item in your Web directory may SEEM to be... http://www.domain.dom/item.jpg ...when in fact the real path may be something like... /boot/home/web/domain/item.jpg If you are using a Web hosting

[REBOL] Previous version Re:

2000-07-06 Thread jhagman
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Has anyone got the previous version of Rebol/core for Linux libc6, I asked my ISP to install the new version on their servers, unfortunately the new version isn't working Then they have some other problems, Rebol/core for Linux libc6

[REBOL] Browser? Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread zoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REBOL [] do http://www.2b1.de/ do http://www.2b1.de/ ** Access Error: Cannot make directory /c/Program Files/REBOL/View/public/www.2b1.de/. ** Where: m-dir path return path ??? -- Pete Wason|"LWATPLOTG"|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|CUCUG|TA|PHX

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones. Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread bga
Em Thursday, July 06 2000, 17:39:01, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disse: parse page: read http://www.server [ some [thru "SRC=^"" here: (insert here "http://www.server")] to end ] Thanks for your answer. I tried that and it didn't seem to work, but I'm not even sure if i did the right thing. Here is

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones. Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread bga
Em Thursday, July 06 2000, 17:40:16, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disse: The absolute path to your Web directory does not involve the http url. For example, the path to an item in your Web directory may SEEM to be... http://www.domain.dom/item.jpg Note that I'm fetching the page with read

[REBOL] Changing relative paths to absolute ones. Re:(3)

2000-07-06 Thread RChristiansen
Note that I'm fetching the page with read http://www.server so all I got is the HTML file. In this file, paths to images are relative, and as I'm sending this page to another people, I have to make than absolute (prefixing http:// www.server to the path). Sorry, I responded too quickly.

[REBOL] one more time Re:(2)

2000-07-06 Thread balayo
What version of libtermcap does your Linux box have installed? (Look in /lib) If you don't have a file or symlink named libtermcap.so.2, you can *probably* make a symlink with that name to whatever version of libtermcap you have installed. Howdy guys, That was it. I use Debian, and

[REBOL] Netscape vs. Explorer ??? Re:

2000-07-06 Thread allenk
Hi Ralph, Is there any way you can avoid the comma? Some Options.. 1. Encode it, and see if MSIE and NN can still handle it. 2. Or else strip it and modify your bookord.r to deal with all titles without the puctuation. 3 Use ISBN or a cat number to pass to bookord.r, this avoids the whole

[REBOL] serial to tcp bridge - 404 at emtec.

2000-07-06 Thread webdev
File Not Found (aka: 404) I went to emtec and found nothing that remotely looks like a bridge between serial and tcp communications. Am I blind or slow? Please be more specific. Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found another (and smallest) serial to tcp/ip program at http://www.emtec.com

[REBOL] Object based?

2000-07-06 Thread rjmarier
I was wondering if someone could provide me with a quick summary regarding what is meant by Rebol being "object based" but not "object oriented"? Thanks in advance. --- Robert Marier