[REBOL] Rolling your own ideal looper: does Repeat still have a bug? Re:(6)

2000-08-30 Thread lmecir
Hi, > Ladislav, > > That is an impressive For function! > your example of using > >a: [1 2] > >for s a tail a 1 [print s] > as a test is very amusing bug, looks > like an infinite loop on windows, just > keeps printing newlines without ever ending. > > Just for kicks, I just tried this: > >> for

[REBOL] Compress. What is REBOL's algorithm? Re:

2000-08-30 Thread allen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: [REBOL] Compress. What is REBOL's algorithm? > What compression algorithm does REBOL use with > ? Given this, know any good on-line sources > for that algorithm? >

[REBOL] View/VID prebeta 5 is worth trying

2000-08-30 Thread carl
A new REBOL/View is posted in http://www.rebol.com/xpers/xpers.html. This one is quite interesting because it contains many changes to VID. It also has a test panel built-in to help you find tests without a hassle. In addition, you can add your own test site to the panel... so the rest of us

[REBOL] Multimedia quality (was) One disk OS + REBOL Re:(11)

2000-08-30 Thread jkinraid
Hi Bo, > I believe that was the Akiko chip, but I think it required a special > hardware call to perform the conversion. Hence, I would be surprised > if you would see a speed increase on the CD32 unless REBOL/View was > modified to make that call when running on the CD32. > > Once again, Holge

[REBOL] Compress. What is REBOL's algorithm?

2000-08-30 Thread civicminded4
What compression algorithm does REBOL use with ? Given this, know any good on-line sources for that algorithm?

[REBOL] Encryption with REBOL

2000-08-30 Thread aparman
With the recent talk about encryption I thought I'd send along this little script. For details read the header. PLEASE READ THE HEADER OF THIS SCRIPT BEFORE USE! It will send and receive encrypted email, and encrypt or decrypt any file. I consider it beta, and would appreciate any feedback. A

[REBOL] Challenging script idea Re:(4)

2000-08-30 Thread galtbarber
Well, there is the trivial case of identical source, assuming that it is run in the same context. This is interesting! Could you please elaborate? Isn't checking to see if two different programs are doing "the same thing" rather difficult for all but the dullest cases, in practically any prog

[REBOL] Rolling your own ideal looper: does Repeat still have a bug? Re:(5)

2000-08-30 Thread galtbarber
Ladislav, That is an impressive For function! your example of using >a: [1 2] >for s a tail a 1 [print s] as a test is very amusing bug, looks like an infinite loop on windows, just keeps printing newlines without ever ending. Just for kicks, I just tried this: >> for s a back tail a 1 [print

[REBOL] Rolling your own ideal looper: does Repeat still have a bug? Re:(5)

2000-08-30 Thread galtbarber
Hello, Ladislav, >It is telling For, that instead >of taking Exit as a signal for itself to exit, it must throw it >further (to F). I think I either don't understand the problem properly, or else RT heard you and corrected the problem already. When I tried to do f: does [print "Hello" for i 1 1

[REBOL] PGP encryption from REBOL Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread ryanc
And of course decrypts... --Ryan decrypts.r

[REBOL] Challenging script idea Re:(6)

2000-08-30 Thread jeff
Howdy, Sterling: > If it's a GPF that takes down the universe, you would be > implying that we're all living in MS Universe 2000 or > something like that. Maybe that's why we die, eh? It's a > bug in the system. That theory sounds as good as any to me -- or maybe a bus erro

[REBOL] Multimedia quality (was) One disk OS + REBOL Re:(10)

2000-08-30 Thread bo
Steve, I believe that was the Akiko chip, but I think it required a special hardware call to perform the conversion. Hence, I would be surprised if you would see a speed increase on the CD32 unless REBOL/View was modified to make that call when running on the CD32. Once again, Holger probably

[REBOL] PGP encryption from REBOL Re:

2000-08-30 Thread ryanc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I would like ... rephrase that: In order to impress my higher-ups, I MUST >demonstrate the ability of REBOL to encrypt a file and ftp it to a host. I can handle >the FTP part. > > Vis-a-vis the PGP part, from Perl we were making system calls to a PGP binary. But >

[REBOL] Challenging script idea Re:(5)

2000-08-30 Thread sterling
If it's a GPF that takes down the universe, you would be implying that we're all living in MS Universe 2000 or something like that. Maybe that's why we die, eh? It's a bug in the system. Sterling > Actually, I think one can make a stronger statement. I suspect > (without spending many brain

[REBOL] Challenging script idea Re:(4)

2000-08-30 Thread joel . neely
Actually, I think one can make a stronger statement. I suspect (without spending many brain-cycles on it) that the GENERAL question "Does function f1 do the same thing as function f2?" is formally unsolvable, in the same way that the halting problem has no general solution. If you can really fin

[REBOL] Re: Is REBOL interpreted or byte-compiled?

2000-08-30 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 29-Ago-00, you wrote: p> Is REBOL interpreted or byte-compiled? It is interpreted. Compiling REBOL is virtually impossibile, unless you want to do some magic (but that wouldn't be very fast, I think). p> The reason I ask this is I see get word called 800,000 times

[REBOL] Re: Challenging script idea Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread g . santilli
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]! On 30-Ago-00, you wrote: g> And since one can look at g> the template of any defined function at run time, it g> seems possible to determine which tokens have g> significance in a context, and which have none or g> less. Sort of like being able to determine that "t

[REBOL] /deep versus /only Re:

2000-08-30 Thread jeff
Just to throw in some more commentary from "the boys" :-) : The /only refinement is used for more than just referring to nested blocks. It means to consider the item in question as a single series type, instead of as a bunch of separate items. Change/only means to apply the changes as

[REBOL] Rebol/Command - accessing all records in the queue??

2000-08-30 Thread mdb
Hello, Using the latest experimental version of Rebol/Command, i'm able to connect and access records from an Oracle Database. using one-rec: first db-port will correctly return the next record but using something like all-recs: copy db-port should return all the records according to the docu

[REBOL] /deep versus /only

2000-08-30 Thread princepawn
Thought you would like to hear what "the boys" have to say about /deep versus /only - Forwarded Message - DATE: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:21:39 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] princepawn, The /only refinement is used for a block nested within another block. The /deep

[REBOL] Rolling your own ideal looper: does Repeat still have a bug? Re:(4)

2000-08-30 Thread galtbarber
Thanks, Gabriele, I have enjoyed studying this foreach code you created! Excellent! I appreciate your help, it's very valuable. I wanted to say, sorry for not getting back to you immediately, there's a lot going on right now!!! Ciao! -Galt p.s. The way you use bind on this-context is somethi

[REBOL] PGP encryption from REBOL

2000-08-30 Thread princepawn
Hi I would like ... rephrase that: In order to impress my higher-ups, I MUST demonstrate the ability of REBOL to encrypt a file and ftp it to a host. I can handle the FTP part. Vis-a-vis the PGP part, from Perl we were making system calls to a PGP binary. But REBOL does appear to make system

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:

2000-08-30 Thread lmecir
Hi, my copy of Windows 98 dials out whenever Rebol asks. No user intervention needed. It depends on the settings of Win 98 IMHO. Regards Ladislav - Puvodní zpráva - Od: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Komu: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Odesláno: 30. srpna 2000 10:08 Predmet: [REBOL] Dialling Out > Hi

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:

2000-08-30 Thread d95-mjo
I don't know if this is what you're looking for in this particular case, but I have made a tiny DLL to make it easier to call the Win32 RAS functions from REBOL/Command without all the annoying Win32 structs. The DLL currently has function wrappers for RasDial, RasHangup and RasGetConnectStatus

[REBOL] Challenging script idea Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread grantwparks
Could this script evolve in the following ways? 1. Ignore header info like author, date and comments 2. Ignore a difference in URLs, filenames, etc. when they are the target of a particular verb. I.E. if I read a URL, but the specific value differs, the 2 scripts are still doing the same thing

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread justin . halls
IMHO the ability to connect to or disconnect from the network connection is something one should be able to do from a script. Of course that still leaves the question of which system functions the implementor chooses to use to implment it. Anyway, I am stillleft with the problem of getting a con

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:

2000-08-30 Thread jelinem1
> My problem is that the machine does not have a permanent connection to the network, but needs to dial out when required. Does anyone have a suitable script, or a technique which can be used to get the machine to dial out a connection (using a connection defined in DUN) without requiring any us

[REBOL] How to count properly slider args solution ....

2000-08-30 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
Hi, as I was receiving unexpected behavior of lists while trying to scroll it (when using 'supply for dynamic list creation), I played a little bit with what should be the right arg which should go into slider ... I surely don't know how /View scrolls internally, but imho following aproach used

[REBOL] major Rebol programming projects Re:(4)

2000-08-30 Thread hen
PNG's are still poorly supported as far as I'm aware. Especially on the more mainstream PC/Mac machines. Although browsers and programs will claim to support PNG's, they only partially support them and don't handle the more complex areas of gamma correction and partial transparancies. I believe t

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:(3)

2000-08-30 Thread Al . Bri
Justin wrote: > OK, this may be a bit more subtle than I had expected. I had omitted to mention that I am using the Windows CE (MIPS on a Packard bell EasyMate 800). > > When I do the same as above I get:- > > connecting to: smtp.freeserve.co.uk > ** Access Error: Cannot connect to > smtp.freeser

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:(3)

2000-08-30 Thread Al . Bri
pekr wrote: > What about built-in serial port support? Can we implement own dialer? :-) Sure. Just find the manual for your modem, and send the right codes through the serial port. Then write the several layers of software to communicate through the serial port and implement TCP etc. Andrew Mar

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread justin . halls
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Dialling Out Re: > > > Justin wrote: > > I would have thought that this would > be a very common requirement (most > networkin

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:(2)

2000-08-30 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Justin wrote: > > I would have thought that this would be a very common requirement (most > networking tools have the ability to dial out if they are not connected, > although simply invoking DUN still requires a user confirmation) and I would > suggest that it would

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:

2000-08-30 Thread Al . Bri
Justin wrote: > I would have thought that this would be a very common requirement (most networking tools have the ability to dial out if they are not connected, although simply invoking DUN still requires a user confirmation) and I would suggest that it would be a very worthwhile enhancement to RE

[REBOL] Dialling Out Re:

2000-08-30 Thread Al . Bri
Re: [REBOL] Dialling Out This was sent through Rebol using: send [EMAIL PROTECTED] followed by this message It works for me. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/ -><-

[REBOL] Dialling Out

2000-08-30 Thread justin . halls
Hi I am a newcomer to REBOL and would like to use it to solve a particular programming problem. I have a stand-alone application, which is not attended by a user, which occasionaly needs to send or receive e-mails. Rather than programming all the code at a low level, REBOL seemed ideally suited

[REBOL] using find/only to match blocks Re:

2000-08-30 Thread lmecir
Hi, find/only C [2 3 4] should work > Supposedly find/only treats a series as a single value, but I am not sure how this is done. I was interested in find the place in a series at the place where a block is found: > > >> C: [ 1 [ 2 3 4] 5 6 ] > > >> find C "234" ; what I want to do > >> fin

[REBOL] forall should have a refinement /then-reset Re:(3)

2000-08-30 Thread lmecir
Hi, what about: forall: func [ "Evaluates a block for every value in a series." [throw] 'word [word!] {Word set to each position in series and changed as a result} body [block!] "Block to evaluate each time" /former /head /local fmr ][ if former [fmr: get word]