[REBOL] Enumerated type creation Re:

2000-09-05 Thread Al . Bri
> I want to constrain the input values for a string field to be either the words "cancel" or "nocancel". > REBOL has excellent support for forcing a function argument to be date!, time!, string!, but I want to increase the restrictions for a particular field and have it throw an error on spurious

[REBOL] IRC Re:

2000-09-05 Thread deryk
I've written one for the Amiga. RFC 1459 is what you're after and is available (among other places) here: http://www.newnet.net/nnrfc1459.html Deryk - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: [REBOL] IRC

[REBOL] IRC

2000-09-05 Thread ptretter
Has anyone made a client for IRC or know the handshaking involved. Is it possible to create an IRC client with REBOL?

[REBOL] trace should be sendable to a file Re:

2000-09-05 Thread rebol
Hi, use echo echo %logfile.txt trace on run-script-now trace off write ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] read %logfile.txt >> help echo USAGE: ECHO target DESCRIPTION: Copies console output to a file. ECHO is a function value. ARGUMENTS: target -- (Type: file none) (SPECIA

[REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL Re:

2000-09-05 Thread bo
princepawn, Attached you will find an example that should allow CSV conversion of a file of any length. Shocked and honored that simple old %convert-csv.r is one of the most popular scripts! Have fun! -Bo On 5-Sep-2000/12:52:36-7:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was glancing at one of the most

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

2000-09-05 Thread dankelg8
Well, a good chunky to planar converter does the conversion at copy speed, i.e. at the speed it takes to copy a block of memory from fast to chip memory (even faster if it uses cache prefetching..), at least on 040 +. The limiting factor is the speed of chip mem, which is really slow :( Cheers,

[REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL Re:

2000-09-05 Thread agem
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 5-Sep-2000/12:52:36-7:00 > I was glancing at one of the most popular scripts at the REBOL archive and deve > > loped some questions: > > 1- Is it possible to incrementally write to a file in REBOL? very similar to series. 'skip , 'change .. > 2- Is it possible to

[REBOL] Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name Re:

2000-09-05 Thread agem
main: func[ /file the-file /get /put ] ... should look fine? another: main: func[ /put p-file /get g-file ][ file: any[p-file g-file ... ] but: > /put orderfile-name [string!] "Put an orderfile on our server" > /get orderfile-name [string!] "Put an orderfile on our server" if yo

[REBOL] rebol-philosophie - was "Any example of xml parsing on rebol site or rebol.org ?"

2000-09-05 Thread agem
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 5-Sep-2000/16:57:30+2:00 > > Hello, > > - Is there any example of xml parsing somewhere since there seem to be = > none on rebol.com or rebol.org ? 1) parse-xml or that? > - Rebol doesn't seem to put accent on advanced concept of Object = > Oriented Programm

[REBOL] GET vs. POST Re:(2)

2000-09-05 Thread webmaster
GET in Rebol is like you describe however, POST comes a string which you have to parse which is really a hassle, as far as my experience recently showed. I had to parse everything and do all kinds of little things to get the thing into a block with single values I could reference. At 12:14 P

[REBOL] Invitation to Join REBOL WebRing

2000-09-05 Thread carlos
Hi Rebols, Let's get together and make REBOL stronger. Join Now REBOL WebRing: http://edit.webring.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/membercgi?ring=rebolwebring&addsite Cheers Carlos Lorenz

[REBOL] Re: Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name

2000-09-05 Thread alex . pini
>- Open Your Mind -< Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (05-Sep-00 17:03:50). p> I have a function that will either get or put a filename... of course I want to use the same name for the file regardless, and this will not pose a problem because the arguments are mutually exclusive. p>

[REBOL] Re: Please help with FTP read command

2000-09-05 Thread alex . pini
>- Open Your Mind -< Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (05-Sep-00 20:15:27). p> However, I am confused as to why a REBOL read operation would be denied because of attemting to *write* on the port. p>>> read ftp://ftp_xing:[EMAIL PROTECTED] p> connecting to: 19.105.186.51 p> ** Script

[REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL Re:

2000-09-05 Thread ryanc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was glancing at one of the most popular scripts at the REBOL archive and developed >some questions: > > 1- Is it possible to incrementally write to a file in REBOL? autos: open/new %autos.txt insert autos "Ford" insert tail autos " Chevy" close autos > > 2- Is it p

[REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL Re:

2000-09-05 Thread doug . vos
have you tried the refinements for write? like: write/append/lines (to write one line at a time). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL

[REBOL] Speed and Memory Management in REBOL

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I was glancing at one of the most popular scripts at the REBOL archive and developed some questions: 1- Is it possible to incrementally write to a file in REBOL? 2- Is it possible to append to a file in REBOL 3- This script seems in-efficient and memory wasteful: it reads and entire file into a

[REBOL] Please help with FTP read command Re:

2000-09-05 Thread carlos
Hi, I guess this has nothing to do with proxy because it happens to me too sometimes and there's no proxy down here. Lorenz - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Terça-feira, 5 de Setembro de 2000 15:15 Subject: [REBOL] Please help with FTP read comma

[REBOL] GET vs. POST Re:

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I cant imagine why it matters whether input is GET or POST... either way you want to pick the values out of a query string... in Perl, the CGI.pm module allows you to get at key-value pairs regardless of whether the data was sent via GET or POST, and I for one have never cared how it came as lo

[REBOL] trace should be sendable to a file

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I am developing a script for use at very remote locations. Thus, to debug it, I need to have trace logs sent to me. Ideally, the script would run, dump its trace to a file and just before termination ftp the trace log to my machine. However, it appears that trace output only goes to STDOUT, w

[REBOL] Please help with failed FTP read command

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I seem to able to access the machine I want to, but, a *write* attempt is leading to failure, even though I am only trying to read a directory list from an ftp server. >> read ftp://199.105.186.51 connecting to: 199.105.186.51 ** User Error: Server error: tcp 530 Anonymous FTP access denied.. **

[REBOL] make-dir

2000-09-05 Thread Fantam
Hello all, I've experienced that make-dir in a ftp context doesn't create the directories as expected. Instead of creating sub-directories, it creates them one next to the the other along the root directory. Here is the code I used: system/schemes/ftp/passive: true xoom: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTE

[REBOL] Please help with FTP read command

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
For some reason, a machine I can manually ftp to does not work through rebol. My proxy settings seem to be ok, because when I try to access the site anonymously, I get back a denied msg. However, I am confused as to why a REBOL read operation would be denied because of attemting to *write* on

[REBOL] to encrypt, or not to encrypt... Re:

2000-09-05 Thread ryanc
With REBOL you wont be too successful hiding this from a REBOL programmer, because of course a properly placed probe would easily reveal it no matter how much encryption you threw at it. So basically all you can do is keep it from being non-programmer readable in a file. The easiest way to this

[REBOL] Proxy Problems (Was: Fixes View: 0.10.29 ) Re:(5)

2000-09-05 Thread ptretter
Maybe this is why I cant connect with MSPROXY. Has anyone had any luck getting /View or /Core to work with MSPROXY. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: Proxy Problems (

[REBOL] Strange chars in password Re:

2000-09-05 Thread Fantam
> I need to connect to FTP but the password contains chars like #"@" or #"\". What can >I do? >From the network protocols document: You can also open FTP connections by using a port specification rather than a URL. This allows you to use any password, even ones containing special characters th

[REBOL] Advanced String Encryption Re:(2)

2000-09-05 Thread ptretter
Great information. I have the desire as many ecommerce folks also do. Would be nice to see an ftp server/client that uses this encryption. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:23 AM To: [EM

[REBOL] Re: Proxy Problems (Was: Re: Fixes View: 0.10.29 Re:(2))

2000-09-05 Thread ssayer
I think the error you report is secondary to the atypical proxy configuration architecture REBOL has adopted. You'll notice that the error you received indicates it's using the tcp scheme. It used to be that the REBOL sites for view were accessed with http, and while the http scheme relies to som

[REBOL] Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name Re:

2000-09-05 Thread ptretter
Looks like you will have to use a differnet argument for either /put or /get refinements. Then possibiy incorporate the Copy function into the body of the function if necessary. You may want to perform some logical operators on the /put or /get refinements and just pass the filename as a separat

[REBOL] Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name Re:

2000-09-05 Thread allen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:03 AM Subject: [REBOL] Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name > I have a function that will either get or put a filename... o

[REBOL] Any example of xml parsing on rebol site or rebol.org ? Re:

2000-09-05 Thread allen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: [REBOL] Any example of xml parsing on rebol site or rebol.org ? >Hello, >- Is there any example of xml parsing somewhere since there seem to be none on rebol.com

[REBOL] Advanced String Encryption Re:

2000-09-05 Thread joel . neely
If by "create a ... function" you mean that you'd like REBOL Technologies to add a well-known, well-tested, high-security algorithm (e.g., blowfish, twofish, or whatever wins the AES competition sponsored by NIST) to REBOL as a primitive (for performance reasons) then I'm happy to second the reque

[REBOL] Why cant mutually exclusive refinements have the same argument name

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I have a function that will either get or put a filename... of course I want to use the same name for the file regardless, and this will not pose a problem because the arguments are mutually exclusive. However, REBOL is complaining about me using the same name for 2 mutually exclusive argumen

[REBOL] Any example of xml parsing on rebol site or rebol.org ?

2000-09-05 Thread youpi . technologies
Hello,   - Is there any example of xml parsing somewhere since there seem to be none on rebol.com or rebol.org ? - Rebol doesn't seem to put accent on advanced concept of Object Oriented Programming like inheritance, polymorphism etc... is there any reason ?   Thanks.  

[REBOL] Enumerated type creation Re:

2000-09-05 Thread rebol
This sounds like a job for Design by Contract. :) As far as I know the only thing you can do in rebol is check for those inputs and throw an error if the argument doesn't match one of them. Keith P.S. I wonder if Carl's ever looked at Eiffel and such for ideas for Rebol. I know he's dealt with

[REBOL] switch or case statement? Re:

2000-09-05 Thread allen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:20 AM Subject: [REBOL] switch or case statement? > I thought that REBOL had a switch or case statement. Doesn't it? > ? switch USAGE: SWITCH value cases /default case D

[REBOL] ReBoard?

2000-09-05 Thread stefan . falk
Hi list, I've put together a spec. (a very small one too) for a Message Board system to be written in rebol. If anyone's interested in helping, feel free to mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Regards Stefan Falk

[REBOL] Enumerated type creation

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I want to constrain the input values for a string field to be either the words "cancel" or "nocancel". REBOL has excellent support for forcing a function argument to be date!, time!, string!, but I want to increase the restrictions for a particular field and have it throw an error on spurious

[REBOL] switch or case statement?

2000-09-05 Thread princepawn
I thought that REBOL had a switch or case statement. Doesn't it? --- ; run this in your ; http://www.rebol.com>REBOL Interpreter! terrence-brannon: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl-refugee myth-gamer ] perl-refugee: [ 'loved href perl discovery: (metaperl = rebol) 'hates href perl ] myth-gamer:http://ww

[REBOL] Don't by lazy dogzz! ;-) Marketing Re:(5)

2000-09-05 Thread ptretter
My suggestions are this: 1. Find programmers and tell them about REBOL. You will be surprised how many dont know about this language. 2. There are many occasional programmers that need a script to perform some form of task. For example, I belong to a Cisco study group and man

[REBOL] REBOL on-line ordering Re:

2000-09-05 Thread ralph
In writing the online order forms, we had to construct a very tedious spreadsheet postal rates. Unfortunately, international mail does not follow any discernable pattern, it is all over the place. You can generalize for regions--such as Europe, Asia, etc.--but not even very accurately then. It is