[REBOL] NONE Re:

1999-12-29 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- You wrote: The manual suggests that a block be used for a simple database. i.e. url addr book. However, how would I access an SQL database? i.e. Access. --- end of quote --- Right now there is no way to do this, although ODBC is promised for the forthcoming rebol/command. I've used rebol,

[REBOL] finding an item's position Re:

1999-12-26 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
foo: [a b c d e] == [a b c d e] index? find foo 'b == 2 -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- You wrote: If I have a block of items with an unknown order, what's the easiest way to find the position of an item in the block? Something like this pseudo code:

[REBOL] Limit on number of usable words Re:

1999-12-22 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Hadn't noticed that before. Ran your test on a mac (v 2.2.0.2.1) and came up with the same result (1534). This seems to not be memory-related. I allocated rebol just over 200 MB (why not?). It appears to be using less than a tenth of that. I wonder if this qualifies as a bug...anyone have

[REBOL] Hello and String help please Re:

1999-12-20 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You probably want to use rejoin as in: rejoin [image seq exten] As far as substrings are concerned, copy/part might have some of the functionality you seek. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- You wrote: image: Pic seq: 45 (actually a counter variable, not

[REBOL] UK REBOL Hosts? Re:

1999-12-17 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- You wrote: Hi all, Anyone know of any UK based REBOL CGI hosts? --- end of quote --- It should be possible to run rebol on any UNIX-based server on which you have CGI permisssions and for which a rebol port exists. Simply upload the rebol package (rebol, rebol.r) and set the rebol binary's

[REBOL] cgi scripts - error traping Re:(3)

1999-12-15 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where i can get more info about error ? is in the user guide? --- end of quote --- It may be. There are a couple examples in the REBOL dictionary under 'try and 'error?. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/

[REBOL] simple little problem -help! Re:

1999-12-15 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Depending on what you're trying to do, you may want to do something like this: foreach url parse read %urllist.txt "" [ site: to-url url ; do something with 'site here ] or you might have it go right into a parse or some other operation: foreach url parse read %urllist.txt "" [ parse read

[REBOL] Saving States

1999-12-15 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
I wrote a little script to save states for CGIs and other apps. It's very simple works well for how I've used it. If anyone wants it, I put it at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/REBOL/ where there is also a new version of sid.r, which it requires, that works with rebol 2.2. -- Andrew

[REBOL] saving stuff Re:(3)

1999-12-14 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Assuming that word is a string, try: write %file word if word a file: write %file read %word if word is a string holding a file name: write %file read to-file word Also, check the docs for 'read. Hope this helps. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] cgi scripts - error traping Re:

1999-12-14 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
If you want to do default values, you might do something like this: defaults: make object [ orden: 99 dia: 1 year: 2000 mes: 1 ] cgi: make defaults decode-cgi system/options/cgi/query-string To just trap a single error, you might do this: if error? try [print

[REBOL] url concatenation Re:

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
try something like foreach line read/lines %yourfile.txt [ ypage: read join http://chart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s= line ; here do something with the page you just read. ; simple: ; write to-file join line ".html" ypage ; more complex: ; parse ypage [parse rules for ripping relevent data out of

[REBOL] saving stuff Re:

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You might want to try the 'write word to save a string, such as concatenated files, to a file as-is. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the save command has stuck string brackets around the entire file. other than that "a9" saves to that file

[REBOL] Protecting Code from others Re:

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You could just include a few fatal hard-to-find bugs; guarantee yourself some support revenue. For kow, since REBOL is an interpereted language, your best bet would be to copyright/patent your creation (whatever works in nz). You might try encrypting it somehow and adding a wrapper

[REBOL] Multiple Rebol Shells on MacOS Re:(3)

1999-12-10 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- You wrote: What, Mac can't run multiple instances of a single executable? Are you talking about multiple copies on the HD like Rebol, Rebol1, Rebol2, etc.? Sounds limiting. --- end of quote --- Keep in mind, the mac is a bit (!) more document-centric than other platforms. In that

[REBOL] listening at ports Re:

1999-11-27 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You might want to try Sterling's proxy (avail. on rebol.org) with a small modification to save to a file all data passed through. I'd imagine that this shouldn't be difficult, although I haven't looked at the code recently. Good luck! -- Andrew Grossman

[REBOL] Can a ping like function be done in rebol? Re:

1999-11-24 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
(unable to quote...on a public computer at the NYPL...) Probably not until there's support for UDP. Sorry. -- Andrew Grossman

[REBOL] cookies Re:

1999-11-23 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You could use my cookie-client script that is somewhere on rebol.org. It allows you to read access webpages while sending them cookies. I'm planning when I have a few minutes free on revising it to work a bit more nicely and automatically remember cookies and the like. Sort of a smart read

[REBOL] interacting with forms Re:(4)

1999-11-23 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tion, but I am not seeing that request when I read their port --- end of quote --- There is no request. The server automatically gets sent all cookies that your browser has relating to that domain and path. If you look at the headers the server returns to you,

[REBOL] Rebol on a virtual server Re:

1999-11-16 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
There is no current version of rebol that will work on a.out BSDs. This was discussed on the list a while back. The status of such a port is uncertain. doh! -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD shell18.ba.best.com 2.2.8-STABLE

[REBOL] NT usage Re:

1999-11-11 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Can it read from and write to the NT registry? --- end of quote --- You could certainly use it to parse/read/write to the registry (assuming it's a text file like in 95/8). Whether that would be advisable... I've heard looking at the registry sorta mean can break

[REBOL] Messing with a log file Re:

1999-11-09 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at the file scripts at both rebol.org and rebol.com without finding any similar routine. I assume I "load" the log file; but I have no idea how to get rid of the lines I don't want. - fleet - --- end of

[REBOL] reform command...blank space? Re:

1999-10-27 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
You might try replacing 'reform with 'rejoin in your code. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: foreach [name type] Fields [ FormField: reform [{"Name":Bcgi/}name{/BP}newline] write/append %cgiworf.r FormField ]

[REBOL] I want out Re:(2)

1999-10-24 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Direct your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end of quote --- I'm sure Bo would love this... I think emailing the list with only the word subscribe in the subject would be quite enough...unless you realy want to let Bo know that you're unsubscribing. --

[REBOL] I want out Re:(3)

1999-10-24 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- I wrote: I think emailing the list with only the word subscribe in the subject would be quite enough...unless you realy want to let Bo know that you're unsubscribing. --- end of quote --- hmmm. emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe as the subject may be a better choice. I

[REBOL] Messenger Weirdness Re:(3)

1999-10-23 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Hi Elan, I'm sure that this is my fault...poor documentation. I'm not at a REBOL'd computer right now, but have you tried just equal? mail/comment "read" or find mail/comment "read" I'd hope that one or both would work! -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html ---

[REBOL] mezzanine functions .... Re:(8)

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Hi Russell, I'm not sure where you got this from. It supports all recent versions of IE and Netscape that implement file uploading to spec. I think it's netscape 2+ and IE 3+, along with a few other browsers that I don't remember (take a look at findagent.r). Files uploaded with the web

[REBOL] mezzanine functions .... Re:(6)

1999-10-20 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't like me or my scripts either! :-/ I think it requires all lines to be shorter than 80 characters? --- end of quote --- The Web Bot doesn't have this problem, but you must be using a browser that it thinks can upload files properly. Netscape and

[REBOL] Launch Dialer Re:

1999-10-19 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
Is this on a UNIX box? That would be quite easy. If not, any OS with a cron-like util would work. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- You wrote: Hi REBOLs Has anyone got a trick/hack or otherwise to enable/automate launching the (modem) Dialup networking, from

[REBOL] Saving Post Data Re:(3)

1999-10-13 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
H, strange. I've used it in a similar way and gotten better results. Does it save the file(s)? Are you behind a proxy on either end? Finally, what browser/server are you using? Also, are you using the latest version from rebol.org? I fixed a problem that would cause some files to

[REBOL] Saving Post Data Re:(4)

1999-10-13 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- You wrote: Odds are, it's safe to assume you'll get the length. --- end of quote --- AFAIK, it would be very safe to say that any browser that supports multipart encoding would provide this header. Netscape 2+ MSIE 3+ (though it only works consistantly on 4+) Opera icab And probably a

[REBOL] [REBOL] interfaces to c/fortran Re:(3)

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as they don't actually make you write in FORTRAN... --- end of quote --- I've actually heard that REBOL is developed in fortran and cobol tied together with embedded perl. j/k. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html

[REBOL] parsing strings containing quote marks Re:

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew . M . Grossman
I don't have time to try it out, but might parse/all be useful in this situation? I'd hope that it would. -- Andrew Grossman http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html --- You wrote: I ended up going through some contortions of replacing the quote marks with "special symbols" (unprintable