[REBOL] Re: editor woes

2002-03-18 Thread Allen Kamp
Has anyone seen this problem? I go to edit a reblet on my desktop, and although the editor appears in my task bar in WinXP, nothing appears on screen. The IOS editor appears okay though. Hi Graham, If it is an offset problem then you can.. Edit the file called edit-prefs.r (to be found

[REBOL] Re: search-for [ semaphores threads ]

2002-03-18 Thread Graham Chiu
Running into a issue where I would like to have 1 rebol script wait for the other rebol script. Or: script 1 calculates, script 2 needs to pick it up. Sounds like a job for super rugby! -- Graham Chiu -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[REBOL] Re: Problem? load %script.r - howto retrieve all!!??

2002-03-18 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Norman, When loading or reading a file I would like to know ALL the functions, blocks, etc..that where actived while loading the file. There is no such command like source loaded-script (Im now always using [ loaded: read %example.r ]) but thats a too workaround.. I think someone did cook

[REBOL] Re: Browsers ,vim Vs. Emacs etc....

2002-03-18 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Joel Neely wrote: Hi, Petr, Petr Krenzelok wrote: Hmm, what is the problem? :-) I did some work here. We use CICS systems in our company (till we move fully to SAP R3). Guys prepare download/job for us... The record has fixed length field structure and that is important... Well, I either

[REBOL] Re: IOS (was: Browser gripe)

2002-03-18 Thread Lok Yek Soon
Hi Jason, Perhaps the best approach to answer your queries with regards to REBOL IOS is to actually request an evaluation copy. http://rebol.com/express-form.html One of the things I like about IOS is how light it is compare to competitors products. Light in size and memory demands but not

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-18 Thread Charles
Hi, Adrian, Copy-and-paste it into your REBOL console (if you're willing to trust me! ;-) or into a file that you can DO from the REBOL console. Alternately, you can run that same file in Perl. Oh. The mystery commented portion is Perl... that makes sense, now. Hmm... Little

[REBOL] Re: IOS (was: Browser gripe)

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Conlin
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Jason Cunliffe wrote: Hi Gregg Thanks. Yes your description helps. I just went to check on rebol.com and delighted to discover they have a new links to IOS articles http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2002/article230.shtml and

[REBOL] Re: Shortage of network connections

2002-03-18 Thread sqlab
Holger, thanks for your reply Unfortunately I am not totally convinced. On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:21:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am using Rebol since a few years for transferring messages between pcs and not so common systems, where i wrote the servers on the

[REBOL] Re: [refactoring s-c?]

2002-03-18 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Gabriele, exactly as Romano said, your version enlarges (sometimes) the global context (and it is not as generalizable to any-word types). We can use a variable to shorten the source: nonsame: function [ { create a word with equal spelling as the given word has

[REBOL] Re: editor woes

2002-03-18 Thread Carl Read
On 18-Mar-02, Graham Chiu wrote: Has anyone seen this problem? I go to edit a reblet on my desktop, and although the editor appears in my task bar in WinXP, nothing appears on screen. Hi Graham, Been having the same problem on my Amiga, so I've just looked into what I suspected was the

[REBOL] Re: Some Morpheus news ...

2002-03-18 Thread Carl Read
On 18-Mar-02, Charles wrote: same technology? MorpheusOS? Well, their download page is at... http://www.morpheus-os.com/ How long has it had the OS in its URL? That certainly gives it a REBOL flavor. My question is, how in the world does it qualify as an OS? In the same way REBOL IOS

[REBOL] Re: Problem? load %script.r - howto retrieve all!!??

2002-03-18 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
I don't know an easy way to tell if a word has changed -- but if you are running an untrusted script, 'protect has got to be basic insurance.I suppose you could make a block of all words which are functions, and their molded checksum. After loading the script, check again to see if

[REBOL] Re: Some Morpheus news ...

2002-03-18 Thread Chris
Charles wrote: How long has it had the OS in its URL? That certainly gives it a REBOL flavor. My question is, how in the world does it qualify as an OS? One word: Marketing ;) Absolutely agreed. But then you end up with channel packages, like in cable TV, whereby a few good

[REBOL] Re: search-for [ semaphores threads ]

2002-03-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
www.rebolforces.com/~erebol for Rugby, the re bol broker + simple threading. --Maarten On Sunday 17 March 2002 21:14, you wrote: Hello All, Running into a issue where I would like to have 1 rebol script wait for the other rebol script. Or: script 1 calculates, script 2 needs to pick it

[REBOL] Re: Problem? load %script.r - howto retrieve all!!??

2002-03-18 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Norman, This isn't exactly an answer to the question as you posed it, but here's something I do that helps deal with the situation. Rather than having a REBOL file (*.r) contain a collection of various parts, I prefer to 1) make sure that a single source file contains components of a

[REBOL] Re: search-for [ semaphores threads ]

2002-03-18 Thread Nenad Rakocevic
Hi Norman, Here is a example of multiprocessing with custom IPC in REBOL : 1- Save these two following source files in the same directory 2- Open a REBOL console, change-dir to the directory and do %calc-client.r 3- Watch what happens... HTH, -DocKimbel. --- file: calc-client.r --- REBOL [

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-18 Thread Hallvard Ystad
Dixit Charles (07.33 18.03.2002): Oh. The mystery commented portion is Perl... that makes sense, now. Hmm... Little question, though. WTF does # do, precisely? It appears to be a comment character for Perl (yes?), but when I try to help or source it, I get told it's an issue. But I can do

[REBOL] Re: rebol crystals: [lucid rocks] = was {Re: Re: Browser gripe}

2002-03-18 Thread Steve Shireman
Jason Cunliffe wrote: Hi Steve, Gregg list Thanks.. Yes I think everyone here on the list feel that rebol 'rocks' in multiple ways.. Rebol takes the fragile-ness out of Internet programming, and provides safe solid and simple ways for developers and users to incorporate the Internet into

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-18 Thread G. Scott Jones
From: Charles To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email ... Oh. The mystery commented portion is Perl... that makes sense, now. Hmm... Little question, though. WTF does # do, precisely? It appears to be a comment character

[REBOL] Re: rebol crystals: [lucid rocks] = was {Re: Re: Browser gripe}

2002-03-18 Thread SunandaDH
Steve: Software Engineering has long been an oxymoron. Like country music!? I suspect it was a term made to glorify the practice of hacking,but give it better sound bytes and a justification for higher salaries. The Software Problem was highly publicized in the 1980's and 1990's, and

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-18 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Charles, OK, here are my deep dark secrets... Charles wrote: Oh. The mystery commented portion is Perl... that makes sense, now. Hmm... The point of the sig is to allow someone to discover my email address without placing it in clear text, thus making it just a little harder for

[REBOL] Re: Problem? load %script.r - howto retrieve all!!??

2002-03-18 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi SunandaDH, On Monday, March 18, 2002, 1:35:12 AM, you wrote: Sac I don't know an easy way to tell if a word has changed -- but if you are query/clear system/words == [end! unset! error! datatype! context! native! action! routine! op! function! object! struct! library! por t! any-type!

[REBOL] Re: rebol crystals: [lucid rocks] = was {Re: Re: Browser gripe}

2002-03-18 Thread Porter Woodward
Jason - Q6: What about REBOL is different architecturally, or tends towards better/different Internet architecture. What distinguishes REBOL when implementing a similar design written in Python or PHP JAVA or xyz...? I know Rebol is fun, fast, small, cross-platform and includes Internet

[REBOL] ANN: renewed Rugby

2002-03-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi All, I just added a new version of Rugby. This one supports a new option in the configurtion dialect: specifying server-side timeouts. If a connection is open without activity for a specified amount of time it will be dropped (if you specify it). Example: configure-rugby [ monitor every

[REBOL] Re: IOS (was: Browser gripe)

2002-03-18 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Jason, ok: A. synchronize distributed data easily That something we all want the smallest possible headache to do? Remember, too, that with REBOL code is data. :) The web is good for distributing data but not so good, in my experience, of distributing application functionality. Another

[REBOL] Community (was IOS).

2002-03-18 Thread Terry Brownell
Here's a quote from the second article from Jason's IOS post... According to Sassenrath, another complaint he hears often is that REBOL isn't open source. The scripts are open source, but the system itself is not. Sassenrath says that the company plans to release the system one day, but that it

[REBOL] I receive individual messages alright but when

2002-03-18 Thread dajoy
I receive individual messages alright but when I change my subscription to digest I don't get the digests. When I change it back to individual messages it starts working again... Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the

[REBOL] Re: search-for [ semaphores threads ]

2002-03-18 Thread Charles
I love hearing that. Execute this code, and watch what happens. insert evil laughter here What? blowyourassup.exe? Oh, no, it's just a random name I chose... Heh. - Original Message - From: Nenad Rakocevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:49