[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread Graham Chiu
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:39:24 +1300 "James Marsden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Brownell wrote: > > ** Script Error: Cannot use path on none! value > > ** Where: context > > ** Near: size: image/size effect: [flip 1x0] > > I get the same error Terry was getting. Needless to say > I was too

[REBOL] Re: Quiet?

2002-03-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Ammon, Quiet for a few days, but seems to be getting back to normal now, whatever normal means. :) --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread Petr Krenzelok
James Marsden wrote: > Terry Brownell wrote: > > ** Script Error: Cannot use path on none! value > > ** Where: context > > ** Near: size: image/size effect: [flip 1x0] > > I get the same error Terry was getting. Needless to say I was too lazy to > read the code to find out what was causing it

[REBOL] Re: Diversion

2002-03-05 Thread Charles
Heh. I like your interpretation of it. I'm usually not home at all on weekends, so I'm kind of thankful for the drop-off - as it is I get too much mail ;) --Charles > Hello, > > I'd say it's more indicative that people actually have real lives away from computers and why waste precious free

[REBOL] Re: read \\computername\path\file.ext

2002-03-05 Thread Petr Krenzelok
> -- > Holger Kruse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] just curious - why don't you use signature of the company you work for - RT? :-) -pekr- > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from t

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread James Marsden
Terry Brownell wrote: > ** Script Error: Cannot use path on none! value > ** Where: context > ** Near: size: image/size effect: [flip 1x0] I get the same error Terry was getting. Needless to say I was too lazy to read the code to find out what was causing it ;-) James. -- To unsubscribe fro

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread Terry Brownell
** Script Error: Cannot use path on none! value ** Where: context ** Near: size: image/size effect: [flip 1x0] - Original Message - From: "Cyphre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 1:29 PM Subject: [REBOL] ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

[REBOL] Re: Morpheus - the bitter thruth?

2002-03-05 Thread Carl Sassenrath
Ah, P2P... interesting... very interesting. -Carl At 3/3/02 01:56 PM -0800, you wrote: > >Sounds like the ideal time for Napster to crawl back into the game with > >maybe a new client under a new name. Just a thought. > > >Paul Tretter > >Sounds like the ideal time for Rebol to get INTO the P2P

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.

2002-03-05 Thread Ryan Cole
Agreed! A friend of a friend spent a quarter million patending a bicycle lock. Its those damn patend attorneys that suck up the money, the patend fees are relatively cheap. If you wanna get super-duper rich, program LFReD to replace lawyers and attorneys. --Ryan Terry Brownell wrote: > Patent

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread Alan Crandall
At 10:29 PM 3/5/02 +0100, you wrote: >Hi all Rebolers, > >I'd like announce first public beta release of Rebol/Arcadia - the arcade >game engine. >If you want to try it just go to desktop/sites/cyphre/arcadia or do >http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/arcadia.r >For more info read carrefully notes on the

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.

2002-03-05 Thread Terry Brownell
Patents have me spooked. I'm turned off by patents and the whole system. Amazon has a "Buy one now." button patent. Where does it end? And the cost of submitting and defending is out of my budget. Any VC's out there :) TB - Original Message - From: "Ryan Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

[REBOL] Quiet?

2002-03-05 Thread Ammon Johnson
Hello? Have I been unsubscribe somehow without my knowledge? Or has everyone in the world experienced some fatal calamity that I seem to have overlooked? I can't imagine the REBOL list falling so silent so sudden with no apparent reason... Enjoy!! Ammon -- To unsubscribe from thi

[REBOL] anyone else having mailing list problems?

2002-03-05 Thread Mike
is anyone else having problems receiving a digest from this list? Mine stopped coming about 2 or 3 weeks ago, but I can receive individual emails from the list just fine. I tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, but to no avail. mike __ Do You Y

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.

2002-03-05 Thread Terry Brownell
Just doing additional testing with the following results The string to compress... "A sentence is nothing more than a collection of symbols." Original - 448 bits Huffman only - 212 bits LSEC - 136 bits (LFReD Standard English Compression.. our system) Huffman/LSEC - 64 bits By first compressing

[REBOL] The List is Back

2002-03-05 Thread pat665
Yeah the list is back ! I have so much material that I printed most of it. My dessert will be Holger contribution. I have to thank Ladislav for his always very short posts "qui font mouche à tous les coups". I have a lot from Joel too about bind and use. And I have discovered from Andrew's post,

[REBOL] ANN: Rebol/Arcadia beta public release

2002-03-05 Thread Cyphre
Hi all Rebolers, I'd like announce first public beta release of Rebol/Arcadia - the arcade game engine. If you want to try it just go to desktop/sites/cyphre/arcadia or do http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/arcadia.r For more info read carrefully notes on the title screen...I'm awaiting your comments ;-

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Holger Kruse
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:58:27PM -0500, alan parman wrote: > Thanks, Holger! > > Do I have the following essentially correct? > > >> probe end! > ** Script Error: end! has no value > ** Where: halt-view > ** Near: probe end! ;rebol has not "seen" this word in the global >con

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Larry Palmiter
Hi Holger, Thanks for the excellent discussion of this often confusing topic. It would be of great benefit to all REBOL programmers, if this material were present in the REBOL documentation. It should include mention of the "properties" of each REBOL type accessible to the programmer. The REBOL l

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread alan parman
Thanks, Holger! Do I have the following essentially correct? >> probe end! ** Script Error: end! has no value ** Where: halt-view ** Near: probe end! ;rebol has not "seen" this word in the global context >> probe first first rebol/words end!

[REBOL] Re: Looking for help

2002-03-05 Thread Ryan Cole
Vey well put Mark! Thanks for the info on licenses. Suprisingly, it seems to me that you and RT might share some ideology. --Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Gabriele / Gregg > > Do you reasonably expect to be able to make money > from the commercial use of your REBOL scripts? > > If y

[REBOL] Re: Looking for help

2002-03-05 Thread Robbo1Mark
Hello Gabriele / Gregg Do you reasonably expect to be able to make money from the commercial use of your REBOL scripts? If you do think so and there is an identifiable market for your "product" that will pay your asking price or demand driven price(s) - volume pricing & all that - then if you d

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rugby release

2002-03-05 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Maarten Koopmans wrote: >Hi All, > >There is a new Rugby release available at > >http://www.rebolforces.com/~erebol > >The mirror at www.vrijheid.net is updated later this week. > >What's new? > >- hipe , the Rugby IO engine can now handle udp serving as well. > >- There is now the possibility to

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.

2002-03-05 Thread Ryan Cole
my-comments: decompress #{ 789C5D54BB72DC3010EBF5153B6ED2E85CF80F3CA9AECD64929A9256A7CDF115 3E2CEBEF8325CF4AE2E6668E0F000B80BAAEF49D533A683399D857C7C9145EA8 6C8CBF372B79A345E622C19B748C2485F216AA5D680FE94EBFAB14A69DAD7D26 BA624D77E6E0B32C9CA898BBF89BDE099E29178EB4562027327EA1E1A4A34D6E 9B3DA8666EB

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Holger Kruse
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:41:50PM -0500, alan parman wrote: > How about a new value confusing? > As in confusing? 'undefined? ==> true :) A little background information: In REBOL everything is a value. That includes words. So internally, something like 'foo or first [foo] is a valu

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Ryan Cole
Previously I wrote that the second 'error? was completely unnecessary. I stand corrected! Coincidently I was just explain to a coworker, that while rebol can be "spoken" easily like natural languages, in certain instances it can difficult to determine the exact interpetation like natural languag

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread alan parman
How about a new value confusing? As in confusing? 'undefined? ==> true :) I think I'm starting to see the difference. >> probe new-word ** Script Error: new-word has no value ** Where: halt-view ** Near: probe new-word >> value? 'new-word == false >> undefined? 'new-word == false

[REBOL] Re: read \\computername\path\file.ext

2002-03-05 Thread Holger Kruse
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:55:11PM +0100, READYSOFT, H.Knoblauch, wrote: > Dear List, > > how can I read such a file \\computername\path\file.ext ? %/computername/path/file.ext -- Holger Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Alan, unfortunately, it is a different notion. See the following example: unset 'a value? 'a ; == false undefined? 'a ; == false value? first first rebol/words ; == false undefined? first first rebol/words ; == true set 'a 1 ; == 1 set first first rebol/words 1 ** Script Error: end! is not de

[REBOL] Re: ANN: Rugby release

2002-03-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Thanks Maarten! --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] read \\computername\path\file.ext

2002-03-05 Thread READYSOFT, H.Knoblauch,
Dear List, how can I read such a file \\computername\path\file.ext ? Thanks Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Looking for help

2002-03-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Gabriele, << What kind of license should I release it on? >> I've been thinking about the same thing, even for little tools and scripts. There are a number of licenses listed at opensource.org. I think the "free for non-commercial use" and charging for commercial use is a good approach. --Gr

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.

2002-03-05 Thread alan parman
Terry, Sounds great! Would have many uses where text is the medium (html, REBOL scripts, e-mail, etc). However, I will remain politely skeptical until I see it in action. While I don't have much experience with the mechanics of compression, I have read some about it. And from that I am heartene

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread alan parman
I, too am unclear on the uses of 'undefined? Is it any different from using "not value? 'word" ? Much easier to use an existing native value, right? ;) -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

[REBOL] ANN: Rugby release

2002-03-05 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi All, There is a new Rugby release available at http://www.rebolforces.com/~erebol The mirror at www.vrijheid.net is updated later this week. What's new? - hipe , the Rugby IO engine can now handle udp serving as well. - There is now the possibility to send UDP heartbeats from a Rugby serv

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread pat665
Hi Ladislav, I was sure I was missing something. Very clever indeed and elegant once one has got it ! May I respectfully suggest that a little note or comment in contexts.html would help the reader ? Patrick - Original Message - From: "Ladislav Mecir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL P

[REBOL] Re: Looking for help

2002-03-05 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Jim, On Monday, March 04, 2002, 7:37:05 PM, you wrote: JR> Any help would be appreciated. I have been playing around JR> with developing a data entry and retrieval system and I am having JR> trouble with the text-list display with the find function. The find JR> function itself works great

[REBOL] Re: Bind and Use

2002-03-05 Thread pat665
Hi Ladislav, There is no problem of reliability here. Andrew simply changed the subject. Previous subject was "Re diversion". Patrick - Original Message - From: "Ladislav Mecir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Bind an

[REBOL] Re: Diversion

2002-03-05 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Pat, feel free to ask, it may help me to improve the wording TIA L From: "pat665" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Diversion Thanks Romano I will certainly ask for help about binding. I have avoided the subject for a while because I found it too difficult. I

[REBOL] Re: [subject: error and trial]

2002-03-05 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Pat, your code is almost correct, it just omits one special case. See the following example: >> type? a: make error! "my error" == error! >> u-def? 'a == true >> undefined? 'a == false Cheers L -- From: "pat665" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [REBOL] [su

[REBOL] Re: Bind and Use

2002-03-05 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi all, it looks like both me and e-scribe missed the original message from Pat. The reliability of delivery seems questionable? Cheers L From: "Andrew Martin" Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:23 AM Subject: [REBOL] Bind and Use Patrick wrote: > I would like to know more about bind and use

[REBOL] Re: Diversion

2002-03-05 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Thanks, Chris I really do not know why some cannot open my site, maybe I should consider the option to mirror it at Rebol Forces. (Allen, how about that idea?) Ladislav From: "Chris" Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Diversion -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

[REBOL] Re: Diversion

2002-03-05 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Patrick, pat665 wrote: > > ... I would like to know more about bind and use. If anyone has > examples, explanations, even raw material ? > Here's a starter, with mild apologies for the length: http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m19482.html This was from a previous discussion, but