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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (13-Sep-00 14:44:50).
j> 2) I'm well aware that our German friends (for example) a literature
j>whose style long, sophisticated utterances with verbs deferred to
j>the end includes have. So all of the above conjecturing ve
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (11-Sep-00 21:05:52).
k> I'd like to see Rebol run on my Palm 3x, but with all the other
k> projects RT has on the go right now, I'll wait and keep messing with
k> Rebol on my servers and desk machines for now. I doubt that handh
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Quoting from my message (03-Sep-00 18:09:43).
a> First, I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing by changing the
a> special characters in the charset: some of my browsers agree with the
a> previous version, so maybe there's a de-facto standard *I* am not
a> respecting
..
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Quoting from my message (08-Sep-00 00:05:00).
a> Note that I don't really believe I've understood this myself. :-9
... Note that the ":-9" is due to a malfunctioning shift-key, I'm not that horny about
being bound. :-)
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"For sex."
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (07-Sep-00 22:02:43).
p>>> letter2: func [b /local name] [foreach n ["sally" "sue"][ name: n print reform
reduce b] ]
p>
p>>> form
p> == ["hi" name "welcome back"]
p>
p>>> name
p> == "bob"
p>
p>>> letter2 form
p> hi bob welcome
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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>
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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
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Quoting from my message (03-Sep-00 18:09:43).
a> The differences:
a> datatype checking (I need to be notified when I do something wrong :-);
a> all charset's special characters are now in a string for clarity;
a> the special characters are now the ones specified in RFC 173
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Quoting from Eric's message (02-Sep-00 05:23:14).
K> Actually, maybe it's better to do this with PARSE:
My thinking exactly. :-)
K> url-encode: func [
K> {URL-encode a string}
K> data "String to encode"
K> /local new-data normal-char c
K> ] compose [
K>
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dehex doesn't translate "%00".
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Heart rate, respiration zero... brain activity zero... He's dead." (Franklin)
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I've been examining the url-encode function from CookieClient.r, but there's something
I'd most definitely call a bug... if I could manage to pinpoint it! :-0
>> s: copy "" for c #"^(00)" #"^(fe)" 1 [append s c] append s #"^(ff)"
>> probe url-encode s
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Just wanted to warn...
Character-based arithmetics can be deceiving. Consider the following
>> for c #"^(00)" #"^(ff)" 1 [prin [c]]
which goes on forever (on REBOL/Core 2.3.0.1.1). Investigating for's source, I found
out the advancing instruction
start: start +
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (01-Sep-00 09:55:57).
m> I've seen it in a lot of CGI Rebol scripts: place the 'print
m> "Content-type: text/html"' first.
m>
m> I don't like it myself, but I use it sometimes when I run into trouble,
m> until the script is fully t
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[[[ MY-MESSAGES-TO-FEEDBACK-KEEP-BOUNCING-BACK MODE ON ]]]
I've been going mad due to a malfunctioning CGI script. It wouldn't even tell me what
the error was, I just got a generic error page.
I've spent many hours trying to understand what the problem was, then I used a
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (29-Aug-00 01:31:24).
h> The next experimental version of View will have full PNG support. All PNG
h> formats for reading (including transparency and alpha-channel), and 24-bit for
h> writing.
:-9
Will it be possible, in the futur
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(Mr. Sassenrath should receive a CC of this message as a comment on the Network
Protocols chapter, Second Revision, Draft 1)
I've read the User's Guide, the old FAQs, the how-to and the recent Networking
chapter, but I still lack insight on the inner workings of read-io.
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (20-Aug-00 23:05:13).
p> What benefit is there to make object!. I have not discovered the usefulness
p> of this yet unless its just to access, thru refinements, the individual
p> values within. Is there a bigger picture that I am
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (21-Aug-00 09:58:38).
A>> The "to" has won me.
A>
A> Me too. :-D
A>
A> Does anyone know if "to" in languages other than English, means something
A> different from "to" in English? How about in:
A> Italian
A> German
A> Gaelic
A> Ge
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (21-Aug-00 16:15:16).
p> I dont think we need a range datatype. Ranges can be quite complex for
p> different and complex values inviting more and more source manipulation for
p> every new type of value. Besides it seems evident th
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (21-Aug-00 09:23:20).
I like the range! idea. My two cents follow...
A>> I like the use of "-" but I feel it will cause confusion if a negative is
A> used in the range.
A>>
A>> -1--10
A>
A> Actually, the lesser value should be f
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (16-Aug-00 15:11:39).
m> i got a file with lines like this:
m>
m> 2;"615165151";"L";20.15;456
m>
m> what i need is a way to get rid of the quotes including informations. the
m> result should look like this
m>
m> 2;615165151;L
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I need user authentication on a couple of CGI-scripts, so I learned I need password
encryption, too. I program on Amiga at home and am surrounded by windows and AS/400 at
work, so I can't use the Unix crypt() version of htpasswd (the Apache program that
generates user/pa
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I've recently banged my head on time-related limitations. I'll spare you the whole
mental path I followed. The conclusion is that it would be much more *comfortable*
(VIK, Very Important Keyword) and it would add a little to REBOL's *prestige* ("Oh,
your puny language do
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (12-Aug-00 02:32:24).
l> the REBOL dictionary only holds 2558 words
Which reminds me... When will this limit be extended a little, say... to one million?
Or, better yet, to infinite?
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Ramon
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (11-Aug-00 22:47:59).
s> ; How about this:
s>
s> string: "This is a string with some words"
s> select head reverse to-block string 'with
... or maybe ...
first back find to-block string 'with
s> ; Or...
s>
s> to-string selec
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message (03-Aug-00 20:07:23).
h>> So fast you are :-) Well - what's the speed penalty to run interpreted REBOL on
h>> hosted environment? :-)
h>
h> No idea, sorry. I have not run any detailed benchmarks yet. Tests did not seem
h> significa
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Quoting from Elan's message (23-Jul-00 09:50:38).
r> does the show-context-table function work for you?
Eh, no, but I've only recently (with your previous message, to be precise) begun to
understand what *the problem* was (that is, I couldn't see why REBOL's behaviour wa
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Quoting from Elan's message (22-Jul-00 00:46:33).
r> Certainly the two x's are bound in different contexts. The first 'x in
r> fun1's context and the second 'x in fun2's context. Given that each 'x is
r> bound in a different context, and the context of both x's is extended
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Quoting from Jeff's message (22-Jul-00 07:51:14).
j> Whether the approach you and Ted are suggesting is best
j> is not for me to say. But if there is popular consent
j> that we're picking the wrong route in some of our
j> practices.. well...
*Ther
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Quoting from Mark Dickson's message (19-Jul-00 15:41:44).
e> ROUNDING FUNCTION
e>
e> regarding Ralph's comments I agree
e> it would be nice to see a rounding
e> function native to rebol and also
e> a /refinement to specify to number
e> of decimal places you would like
e>
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Quoting from Carl Sassenrath's message (10-Jul-00 22:22:03).
c> I plan to post a draft of the manual to our web site, and if any of
c> you would be interested in reviewing it, I would appreciate your
c> comments and suggestions.
Count me in! :-)
Alessandro Pini ([EMAI
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Quoting from Malcolm's message (13-Jul-00 00:00:13).
m> Two points, a few people mentioned the hash type but I had never noticed it
m> before. Anyway, after changing from block to hash, my site (the off-line
m> version) is now about nine time faster! - although I still h
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Quoting from Galt Barber's message (10-Jul-00 23:04:41).
G> I still don't even use parse for any but the simplest things.
G> If I had a burning need that nothing else could satisfy I probably would sit
G> down and grind through the details, but short of that I may never go
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Quoting from Brian Hawley's message (10-Jul-00 23:18:02).
b> I mentioned three methods.
b> Resorting the list after every insert:
b> Incremental insertion sort (linear search):
b> Making sure the input is sorted in the first place:
b> Does that help?
Yes and no: while
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Quoting from Tim's message (10-Jul-00 04:10:52).
t> http://foo.bar/blatz.r">
t> Is one way to do it, that's probably what you're referring to
No, that implies sending a "complete" HTML page to the browser.
t> if not, and you come across any other approach,
t> I would c
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Quoting from my message (10-Jul-00 00:26:09).
a> You mean something like this invented example?
a>
a> >> probe data
a> == [15 98 60 52 10 2]
a>
a> >> insert/sorted/compare data 15 :method
a> == [98 60 52 15 10 2]
a>
a> Hey, staff!.. How 'bout... :->
Er, the corr
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Quoting from Brian Hawley's message (08-Jul-00 01:31:18).
b> This either means resorting the list after every
b> insert, using an incremental insertion sort, or making
b> sure the data is inserted in order.
Hmmm. :->
You mean something like this invented example?
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Quoting from Ryan's message (08-Jul-00 23:49:23).
n> The next feature I want to add is a commenting system. I want the reader to
n> be able to click on a hyperlink for "comments" which will then execute a .cgi
n> script. The .cgi script will then render a page including
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Quoting from Elan's message (06-Jul-00 10:17:28).
i>date: replace form now "/" "-"
i>date: replace/all date ":" "."
Just for completeness, and knowing it's less readable, what about
date: replace/all replace form now "/" "-" ":" "."
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL
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Quoting from Petr Krenzelok's message (06-Jul-00 14:04:53).
P> I am just curious if running rebol with command line parameters work for
P> you? I get following error:
P>
P> rebol --do "print 123"
I get 123. Should be correct, but...
P> ** Script Error: print is missing
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Quoting from Tim's message (07-Jul-00 07:03:47).
t> I'd like to launch another URL from a CGI script.
t> I could have the CGI program write a META tag like:
t> http://foo.bar/blatz.r">
t> Is there a better way to do this using rebol-specific
t> features.
You mean you star
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Quoting from Ingo's message (02-Jul-00 16:40:13).
i>> h> If connected? cannot determine whether a connection exists then it returns true.
i>>
i>> Odd, I'd say... Wouldn't it be better if it returned false?
i>
i> I'd say it should return 'none, thus
i>
i> 'true would mea
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Quoting from Carl Sassenrath's message (29-Jun-00 19:30:19).
c> PS: what OS are you using, so we can fix the CONNECTED? bug?
Yours. :-)
AmigaOS 3.5 + Miami 2.1
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Thhhat means... superior firepower in strength or in numbers!" "Or bot
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Quoting from Holger Kruse's message (29-Jun-00 17:57:38).
h> If connected? cannot determine whether a connection exists then it returns true.
Odd, I'd say... Wouldn't it be better if it returned false?
h> Since you are using the Amiga version: connected? there currently
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The following happens on /Core 2.3.0.1.1 and /View 0.9.9.1.1
>> connected?
== true
(Wheter I am or not)
>> loop 3 [print random -2x2]
1103533695x2
-112486916x2
-1085009929x2
>> loop 3 [print random -2x-2]
-1254343851x2102726704
456620719x-563760036
-472227581x20547838
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Quoting from Rodney Snell's message (23-Jun-00 18:49:05).
r> But the called script has numerous places where
r> an error can occur and I would like to return
r> a partially assembled string at that point.
r> How to do this? 'return only works in a function
r> and 'halt do
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Quoting from Larry's message (21-Jun-00 01:21:09).
l> IMO using an interpreted language like REBOL to issue high-level math
l> commands in compiled binaries gives us the best of both worlds. In fact,
l> one of the world's largest and most computationally intensive simulat
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Quoting from Ryan Christiansen's message (20-Jun-00 18:16:19).
R> I used Carl's expression...
R>
R> t: now/time n: 1 while [n < 100] [n: n + 1] n / third (now/time - t)
R>
R> and here are the results:
R>
R> The Windows NT machine returned a result of 500,000
R> The
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Quoting from Doug's message (17-Jun-00 06:29:24).
d> For reasons unknown this doesn't work:
d>
d> page: read/lines %textfile.txt
d> foreach line page [
d>line: parse/all line tab
d> ]
tab is a char!, while parse expects a block!, string! or none! second argument.
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Quoting from Jeff's message (13-Jun-00 22:15:09).
j>Oddly enough, I just wrote a little article on using REBOL
j>for shell scripts:
j>
j> http://www.cs.unm.edu/~whip/rebol-unix-shell.html
Nice. Just one observation: dlink's not going to work on pages contai
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Quoting from Petr Krenzelok's message (14-Jun-00 13:53:39).
P> Some people like /Core :-)/
I'm one of them. (-:
P> Also, according to discussion on beta list, it seems to me more people would still
prefer classical aproach - one /Core = kernel thru all REBOL products,
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Quoting from Tim's message (13-Jun-00 23:11:44).
t> I am beginning to use core as a CGI workhorse for me (and I
t> hope Carl continues with it, despite some evidence to
t> the contrary in this list).
I still don't have this sorted out...
Do /Core and /View share the sam
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I didn't find a way in the RFC, but maybe I did a poor search. I don't have the time
to study Apache right now, so I don't know if the answer is there.
The question: is there a way for an Apache-handled CGI script named john-doe.r, and
referenced to as such in a web form
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Quoting from Sterling's message (06-Jun-00 21:05:02).
s> It might be neat to implement some way to get that download restart
s> command worked in but how do you put that info into the URL?
ftp::custom_extensions_galore://hoth.rebol.com
or something like that? :-)
Ales
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Quoting from Carl Sassenrath's message (02-Jun-00 21:08:20).
c> Yes. View is built on Core.
c>
c> Currently, however, the Core used with View is 6 months beyond that provided by the
2.2 Core on our web site. It is our desire to fix that with a 2.3 release. But, if
yo
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Quoting from Ryan's message (24-May-00 00:58:32).
R> Yes, that works. I would have never thought of that.
That is a sentence I always hate hearing myself utter. It's the sign I didn't do
things well.
Just my two cents.
As a most, *most*, *MOST* general rule, when you ar
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Quoting from Carl's message (24-May-00 21:55:53).
c> -Carl, Founder
If Carl's a Founder... does this make Holger a Jem'Hadar or a Vorta? :-D
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm joking about two of my idols,
I'm gonna kneel down and wait for my just p
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Could we know when RT plans to release the next products, with all the approximations,
warnings, disclaimers and plain don't-trust-this-dates-too-much granted?
TIA.
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Jim... you realize you have no idea what kind of *danger* you may
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (02-May-00 13:39:11).
g> Could you try your code again disabling the GC (with RECYCLE/OFF)?
Oh, yes, it works (you know, I'm only at letter 'F' on the Dictionary... :-)
Hmmm... now, why do *all* my feedback e-mails bounce back, starting bac
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The list is back on line...
Alessandro Pini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"If you're going to be worried everytime the Universe doesn't make sense, you're going
to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your natural life!" (G'Kar)
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (02-May-00 13:39:11).
g> Could you try your code again disabling the GC (with RECYCLE/OFF)?
Oh, yes, it works (you know, I'm only at letter 'F' on the Dictionary... :-)
Hmmm... now, why do *all* my feedback e-mails bounce back, starting mon
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Quoting from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (01-May-00 22:47:01).
f> I don't know if it is correct to use local variables in the sort function
f> (why not ?)
Why shouldn't it be indeed?
f> anyway they shouldn't be necessary
I just want to clear the table after the sort-method's din
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I've been trying to make a multiple-key sorting routine for a block of objects and I
had a couple of problems. Now the routine works, but I'm not completely satisfied with
my solution and I'm still curious about the problems.
1.
As a first step, just to see the result,
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Hi there.
I've been in lurker-mode for quite a while. *Now* I have something to say. :-)
I, for a change, am not interested in being a beta tester, don't have time for that
(unfortunately).
On the other hand, I would be *very* happy to read the documentations of the beta
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