[REBOL] ODBC Connection Re:

2000-08-03 Thread jimg
The way to open a command port has been changed from: db-port: make dbase [ scheme: 'odbc ] to: db-port: first dbase Think of the dbase port as a factory that makes command ports. - jim At 02:46 PM 8/4/2000 +1000, you wrote: >I am using win95 ver of rebol/command for the first time, and th

[REBOL] ODBC Connection

2000-08-03 Thread etcha
I am using win95 ver of rebol/command for the first time, and thought id open a data source connection to the radius. can somebody tell me what im doing wrong: dbase: open odbc://name:pass@datasourcehere db-port: make dbase [scheme: 'odbc] insert db-port "select * from tablenamehere" and it r

[REBOL] Rebol in CGI mode.

2000-08-03 Thread jwold
I am having an extreme amount of difficulty running REBOL in cgi mode. I followed the instructions still a no-go. Running: Apache 1.3.x Latest REBOL ver. All default directories with Apache (i.e. cgi-bin etc..) Jarrett.

[REBOL] Adding custom headers to emails. Re:

2000-08-03 Thread bhandley
You can add your own header to an email using the header object. For example, your-address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] header: make system/standard/email compose [ from: to-string your-address to: to-string your-address subject: "Test message" x-approval-by-bruno:

[REBOL] REBOL the Official Guide

2000-08-03 Thread ptretter
I just want to urge everyone who is serious about learning REBOL to buy the book "REBOL - The Official Guide". I dont work for REBOL or anyway profit from this book. However, I know many people on these lists have had great benefits from RT products whether beta or not. Carl and his st

[REBOL] /Command docs and release date Re:

2000-08-03 Thread allenk
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 9:19 AM Subject: [REBOL] /Command docs and release date > Hi, > > now that experimental /Command versions for different platforms are > available for download, I'd like to see some docs

[REBOL] /Command docs and release date

2000-08-03 Thread kracik
Hi, now that experimental /Command versions for different platforms are available for download, I'd like to see some docs for ODBC and external library calls. Also, the REBOL/Command page at http://www.rebol.com/command1w.html says that "REBOL/Command will be available for purchase in August 200

[REBOL] Rebol Config/INI File Difficulty Re:(4)

2000-08-03 Thread rsnell
Yes, possibly a bug. The wierd thing is that it works as I expect when the variable assignment is added (sprops: ) to the save. But I see what you mean about load/save and that load always puts a block around the data so I should always be ok. Thanks a lot for your help! Rodney -Origina

[REBOL] Rebol Config/INI File Difficulty Re:(3)

2000-08-03 Thread agem
very confusing. maybe a bug?! ;-) some while later.. if not, note 'save is paired with 'load . in the saved file there are no brackets around, as in save/header %out.dat sprops [] but after loading you have all in a block again. so you can do sprops: LOAD %in.dat this seems to work ok too: s

[REBOL] Re: REBOL Internet Chess?

2000-08-03 Thread weirddream
Nazdarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look at http://i.am/chesster for REBOL CHESS. It's in beta stage and only HTML GUI is public available , however the engine is written in REBOL and we've got some experimental VIEW and FLASH GUIs as well. On 03-srp-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for chess ga

[REBOL] Adding custom headers to emails.

2000-08-03 Thread bga
Is it possible? I need to add an "Approved:" header. -Bruno -- Bruno G. Albuquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] BeDevId #15362 Grupo Brasileiro de Usuários de BeOS - Presidente http://beos.din.uem.br "I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove i

[REBOL] New Amiga support? Re:(3)

2000-08-03 Thread holger
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: > So fast you are :-) Well - what's the speed penalty to run interpreted REBOL on > hosted environment? :-) No idea, sorry. I have not run any detailed benchmarks yet. Tests did not seem significantly slower though. -- Holger Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Trapping errors? - Not like the book says? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread rebol
Hi Eric, >SEND doesn't return a value, so TRY doesn't return one either. As a >result all the set-word error: sees is the unset! value, which produces >the error. Exactly. >If you add 'true to the end of the try block, that >ensures you'll have some value to set 'error to. 1. A better way t

[REBOL] Trapping errors? - Not like the book says? Re:

2000-08-03 Thread rebol
Hi Douglas, 1. to correct that problem use set/any 'error try [...] 2. Why don't you join the REBOL ... Guide mailing list? I think that will be a better forum for discussing book related issues, so as not to waste the bandwidth for people who haven't bought the book. 3. BTW, the RTOG list is o

[REBOL] Re: /view slider data (size - 4) ? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 02-Ago-00, you wrote: R> Do you have a usage guide for the scrollers? Not yet, but the slider is 99% compatible with the predefined one. Anyway, as a short summary: slider ; goes from 1 to its size (like predefined) slider 256 ; from 1 to 256 slider min

[REBOL] Re: rgb color selector error (/data = none) Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 02-Ago-00, you wrote: R> Making this change only made the slider /data value change R> from 0 to 1 when I move the slider and the /data value doesn't R> return to 0. Yup, sorry, I was too tired yesterday. :-) If you don't want to check for none then you may want t

[REBOL] New Amiga support? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Hi Rebols, > > > > I just noticed a new line in experimental releases: > > > > Group System-name Hardware Type > > TaoElate/intent VP tar.gz > > > > There are no releases by now, but does this mean that REBOL will

[REBOL] New Amiga support? Re:

2000-08-03 Thread holger
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Hi Rebols, > > I just noticed a new line in experimental releases: > > Group System-name Hardware Type > TaoElate/intent VP tar.gz > > There are no releases by now, but does this mean that REBOL will run on > the new Amiga? It would certainly

[REBOL] Rebol Config/INI File Difficulty Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread rsnell
Thanks for the 'compose lesson. I've never had to use it. I can get something close to what I want, but I still am having trouble getting the following to work. Here is one file %in.dat: REBOL [] [ ss [ item1 "hello" item2 "goodbye" ] other [ n "bad" ] ] Fine. Now a

[REBOL] Trapping errors? - Not like the book says? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread doug . vos
Thanks! Just prior to getting your email, I tried putting (error: none) right after send... in the block. It works also. So I hope this saves some other soul some frustration. In fact I can just put: yes, or no, or none - just so that "try" will return some value. You are correct in pointing o

[REBOL] web stuff Re:

2000-08-03 Thread bhandley
Just replying to one bit. > By the way, the cookies-client.r is giving me trouble. > there are documentation mistakes, redundancies, and inflexible > code, and it doesn't fetch binary files like .jpg properly > because of mishandling of cr lf chars, etc. - does anybody > have a proper version tha

[REBOL] Re:Trapping errors? - Not like the book says?

2000-08-03 Thread KGD03011
Hi Doug, Why don't you try it this way: if error? error: try [send [EMAIL PROTECTED] {test} true ][ log-event/error system/script/header/file "error" (disarm error) ] SEND doesn't return a value, so TRY doesn't return one either. As a result all the set-word error: sees is the unset! val

[REBOL] Trapping errors? - Not like the book says?

2000-08-03 Thread doug . vos
I have read and re-read the sections REBOL the official guide. about errors. (eg. pages 276 and following) Then I put together a function to log errors called log-event (with a refinement for handling disarmed error objects). The log-event function will then log the date, time, script name, "erro

[REBOL] REBOL chat server Re:

2000-08-03 Thread jelinem1
> Now that you've got my wheels spinning, would it be possible to develop a real-time chat application in REBOL? I'm not talking about a situation where you type a message, hit , and then send a string. I'm talking about sending ASCII AS IT IS TYPED to a port which is sent via tcp/ip to a termina

[REBOL] Re: New Amiga support?

2000-08-03 Thread files
That is indeed good news. I was wondering about that. Thomas. On 03-Aug-00, you wrote: > Hi Rebols, > > I just noticed a new line in experimental releases: > > Group System-name Hardware Type > TaoElate/intent VP tar.gz > > There are no releases by now, but does this mea

[REBOL] REBOL stand-alone applications?

2000-08-03 Thread newsletters
I would like to be able to put together an client side standalone application that uses REBOL - but I do not want to require the user to download the REBOL and see the scripts that make up the application. Is it possible to create a REBOL app that completely encapsulates the REBOL engine and hide

[REBOL] Order of arguments to common words Re:

2000-08-03 Thread lmecir
Interesting idea, Keith. > Hi, I'm just wondering why this design choice was made: > > for pretty much any word that finds or picks, etc. a location out of a > series, for example: > > print find "here and now" "and" > > blk: [red 123 green 456 blue 789] > print select blk 'red > 123 > > str: "R

[REBOL] REBOL Internet Chess? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread deadzaphod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 8/2/00 9:18 pm: >Now that you've got my >wheels spinning, would it be >possible to develop a >real-time chat application in >REBOL? I'm not talking about >a situation where you type a >message, hit , and >then send a string. I'm >talking about sending ASCII >A

[REBOL] REBOL Internet Chess? Re:(3)

2000-08-03 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi n.p. > > you wrote: > >Now that you've got my wheels spinning, would it be possible to develop a > >real-time chat application in REBOL? > > I just sent an email to the Ally list in the thread module that includes a > rudimentary chat-type server. With a few modifi

[REBOL] REBOL Internet Chess? Re:(2)

2000-08-03 Thread rebol
Hi n.p. you wrote: >Now that you've got my wheels spinning, would it be possible to develop a >real-time chat application in REBOL? I just sent an email to the Ally list in the thread module that includes a rudimentary chat-type server. With a few modifications, it should do something like thi

[REBOL] web stuff

2000-08-03 Thread galtbarber
Unfortunately, I have been unable to participate much on the list recently. I finally got my book Rebol the Official Guide and it looks really great so far. They even talk about strange context behavior right at the start! That's a good sign that it's not just for dummies. The installation

[REBOL] New Amiga support?

2000-08-03 Thread kracik
Hi Rebols, I just noticed a new line in experimental releases: Group System-name Hardware Type TaoElate/intent VP tar.gz There are no releases by now, but does this mean that REBOL will run on the new Amiga? It would certainly be a reason to buy one ;-) -- Michal Kracik