[REBOL] Re: newbie question

2004-03-16 Thread Charles MOUGEL
Elan a écrit : Hi Greg. I'm not sure whether or not you realize that whenever help documents something like open/lines and help also documents something like open/direct then you can also use the combination of the two: open/lines/direct And open/direct/lines/ ... -- To unsubscribe from

[REBOL] Windows messages between a C++ program, and a Rebol Pro program

2004-03-11 Thread Charles MOUGEL
with API isn't so used... And I feel that, there is type problems, but I don't find. Thanks for helping. I'm lost in few lines :-( Charles. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.

[REBOL] Re: Problem with notetab gateway

2002-10-06 Thread Charles
to in the original message is fixed now - I think. Good, good. Mmm... I'm going to look at these. Thanks be to Bruno and Brett here, then, for making me aware. :) Brett. --Charles - Original Message - From: Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 12:37

[REBOL] Re: Problem with notetab gateway

2002-10-06 Thread Charles
Anyways, we now return you to your regularly scheduled topic ;) --Charles Have fun! Regards, Brett. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send

[REBOL] Re: Problem with notetab gateway

2002-10-05 Thread Charles
By the way, what and where is this product? When i use the notetab gateway written for rebol by Brett Handley, i get the following error message : ** Script Error: use-script expected file argument of type: file ** Where: do-boot ** Near: use-script (i use Rebol/view) Hi

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Search and delete from a Block

2002-10-03 Thread Charles
Err... Nope. editor %local ** Script Error: editor has no value ** Near: editor %local I think you mean to say to do that in REBOL/View, once you shell out to the text console. That, and I'm pretty sure Matt was looking for a method to do this dynamically, in code. the correct way is

[REBOL] Re: Email setup problems.....???

2002-10-01 Thread Charles
For SMTP, you will want to use the SMTP or mail server for your dialup or cable ISP. If mac.com is your dialup or cable ISP, then... someone else should check into this. ;) I have this in my user.r file: REBOL [ Title: User Preferences Date: 1-Oct-2002/18:35:11-5:00 ] set-net

[REBOL] Re: Introducing REBOL/Base - FAQ

2002-09-28 Thread Charles
Q: Why would REBOL Tech build such a thing? I smell Dr. Strangelove in that question ;) Sorry. Feel free to return to topic. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] One problem solved

2002-09-18 Thread Charles
/default/timeout for it to work. *boggle* Should I post this to feedback, or is this a known problem, or am I just doing something dumbassed? Oh, er, 2.5.0.3.1, REBOL/Core for Windows. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Uh, er, one more thing...

2002-09-18 Thread Charles
One more thing... I add the line system/schemes/default/timeout: 0:02 into my user.r file, but when I execute a script with rebol.exe %1 (eg, double-clicking on it) the setting is left at 30. Do I have to put a line in most of my scripts to increase the timeout for safety, or is there

[REBOL] secure

2002-09-17 Thread Charles
I'm curious about something. Has anyone else identified behavior where REBOL/Core (2.5.0.4.2 and 2.5.0.3.1) are no longer asking for network or file system access? Mine aren't, and that's not right, because I didn't do that. Where can I most likely find where these changes were made? In my

[REBOL] write/lines ftp://...

2002-09-16 Thread Charles
? I fiddled with the path once, and it returned an error message saying the path was invalid and didn't exist. So it's connecting, at least some times. In fact, it's even creating a 0 byte file (and over-writing any previous file in its place).. Help?? --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list

[REBOL] email object

2002-09-09 Thread Charles
. Is there some intermediary function, something between 'send' and 'open smtp://'? Thanks. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Fw: prime solution

2002-08-12 Thread Charles
An interesting little something my mother sent along to me. Figured there'd be a few people on this list interested in it. Prime solution wows the math world Scientists say algorithm offers 'foolproof' way to find primes

[REBOL] Re: fun with for loops

2002-08-02 Thread Charles
. --Charles Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes

[REBOL] Re: How to access files ' properties under Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
? I know the documentation says that only binary, lines and no-wait are settable... but why? --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Executing Scripts in Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
And Use DDE is unchecked. Any ideas? Thanks all. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Executing Scripts in Windows

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
? My current settings, for when 'Core' is the default action, the info says: Action: Core Application used to perform action: E:\code\rebol\core\rebol.exe -q %1 And Use DDE is unchecked. Any ideas? Thanks all. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send

[REBOL] fun with for loops

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
condition? [ if true do this ][ if false do these next 20 lines all indented with more indentation yet to come very long lines ] You follow me? It's a coding habit I've picked up from another language. Thanks folks. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list

[REBOL] Regarding tags

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
excessively ugly: imgtag: to-tag rejoin [imgtag/1 imgtag/2 {} imgtag/3 {}] == IMG SRC=someimage.jpg *sighs* I have a lot to learn... and that is why I'm doing this. *smirk* Thanks everyone. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Circular forwarding, once again

2002-08-01 Thread Charles
with system functions... *sighs* --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Spreading

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
I'm not exactly sure what to call this, but in another language I sometimes use, I can do something like this. Where, hypothetically: data: Charles-W-Raymond info: [firstname middleinit lastname]: parse data - Make sense? Any ideas for me? Thanks folks!! --Charles -- To unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: I've had it with email.

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
Carl At this rate, I think email will be dead in a few years. In Carl fact, let me go on record saying that. A venture capitalist Carl recently commented that this was a bold statement... but just Carl watch. You watch. I'm not saying email will go away permanently. Carl I'm saying that

[REBOL] Re: I've had it with email.

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
an online help channel of volunteers wouldn't be bad ;) --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Spreading

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
Mmmm... purr purr, yes, thank you!! Now to go eliminate 3 lines of code.. Is this what you're after? data: Charles-W-Raymond == Charles-W-Raymond set [first-name middle-name last-name] parse data - == [Charles W Raymond] first-name == Charles last-name == Raymond --Gregg

[REBOL] Re: I've had it with email.

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
One of the things I'm trying to work out is a mechanism like that found in Black and White. Essentially the agent functions in the background crawling the web for things you might like. You can then positively or negatively reinforce it's findings. By keeping a catalog of page analyses,

[REBOL] Re: Spreading

2002-07-29 Thread Charles
Yep :) Thanks be to you, too! :) Maybe this: data: Charles-W-Raymond set [firstname middleinit lastname] parse data - Anton. I'm not exactly sure what to call this, but in another language I sometimes use, I can do something like this. Where, hypothetically: data

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-09 Thread Charles
reading about series! and such until later, when I'm more fully awake and don't have a sleeping cat stopping me from note taking. Thanks all! --Charles I made a little demo which may help understanding series a bit easier for beginners. do http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/demo/demo-series.r

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-09 Thread Charles
are useful and not uselessly wordy! Heh. No, not too wordy. However, I am now frightened of REBOL ;) CarlS is certainly a madman ;) --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-08 Thread Charles
FAH!! My apologies for the previous post, wherein no text was added :/ !=: get first [ ] 1 != 2 == true Adapt REBOL to yourself... :-) Yeahbut, if you do that too often, your code won't be portable, unless you include your custom definitions in every script you submit, or include

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-08 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:43 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text Hi Charles, On Monday, July 08, 2002, 5:56:12 AM, you wrote: CFor instance, in C, I would have

[REBOL] Re: How to detect type of OS

2002-07-07 Thread Charles
Hi Romano, On Monday, July 08, 2002, 1:21:49 AM, you wrote: RPT is-unix?: does [not any [is-win? is-mac?]] Oh well, is the Amiga Unix? ;-) EAW - Extend At Will ;) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila --

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-07 Thread Charles
To Charles: Personally, I have a hard time working with series! with next and skip and tail and so forth. A pointer to a list element which I cannot see irritates me. I don't understand what you mean. That is, what do mean by see? For instance, in C, I would have something like int

[REBOL] build-lib.r - global variable space

2002-07-06 Thread Charles
purpose * twelvedays.r is missing its purpose ** Internal Error: No more global variable space ** Where: count-lines ** Near: length? parse/all mold load str Anything in specific I could do to deal with that variable space deal? Thanks all. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list

[REBOL] docs.rip 'bug'?

2002-07-05 Thread Charles
Greets folks. Me again. I was running docs.rip in /Core 2.5.0.3.1 (that's what my previous problem was in), and got this: Script: REBOL Self-extracting Binary Archive (RIP) (25-Mar-2001/23:55:29-8:00) ** Script Error: request has no value ** Where: do-boot ** Near: if any [ not exists?

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-03 Thread Charles
Here's a variant. Suppose I only want characters 2 through 5? Or 3 until the end? Or I want to remove those selections? Personally, I have a hard time working with series! with next and skip and tail and so forth. A pointer to a list element which I cannot see irritates me. -

[REBOL] Re: Evaluating if's

2002-07-02 Thread Charles
! - Original Message - From: Gabriele Santilli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:21 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Evaluating if's Hi Charles, On Tuesday, July 02, 2002, 5:51:51 AM, you wrote: Cif THIS and THAT [] Use: if all

[REBOL] Evaluating if's

2002-07-01 Thread Charles
this in the same line, and without worrying about throwing and catching errors? Or am I more or less doomed to yet another nested if? Thanks folks. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: dir?

2002-06-30 Thread Charles
, that might actually be best right there, unless I just kept join'ing 'file to the end of the dir every time ;) Thanks guys. Obvious mistake once I see it. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: dir?

2002-06-30 Thread Charles
[ if (dir? dir/:file) ... Oo, that's nicer looking.. You can probably also use clean-path in other situations to get the absolute path. Cool. Thanks for the info! --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without

[REBOL] dir?

2002-06-29 Thread Charles
false. I've no idea why, and my only fix around it is to use (dir? rejoin [root sub dir]) .. Shouldn't dir? return true? It has in the past for me in a similar situation... *boggle* Help? --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Site requiring authorization

2002-06-13 Thread Charles
Greets Serdar. I was going to do that, except the username is an email address. So it'd be: user@dom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.bin Would that work? (I'm not on my REBOL machine at current to test it.) Thanks. Hi Charles, Try this http://me:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/file.bin Regards

[REBOL] Site requiring authorization

2002-06-12 Thread Charles
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pwd: fubar file: http://www.site.dom/file.bin So I want to write/binary %somedir/data.bin read/binary file .. but get 401. Any info folks? Thanks! --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without

[REBOL] Re: percent! - new datatype request

2002-06-06 Thread Charles
! .. workes nicely.) --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Fw: percent! - new datatype request

2002-06-06 Thread Charles
There's always the matter that the list can take up a large part of the thought and discussion on this matter, formulate a nice proposal, submit the proposal to the list with RFC, and once people are generally satisfied, submit the final draft to RT. Save Carl some headache ;) The email I

[REBOL] Re: reboltech dead link

2002-05-30 Thread Charles
NetSol is demonspawn and should be wiped from the face of the earth. Go with someone else, if the option is available. Thing is, once your registration with NSI has expired, *you can't touch it*. The only thing you can do is let it die out, or renew and move it after that. And you get to

[REBOL] Re: uppercase

2002-05-27 Thread Charles
That is rather odd. The function, I do not feel, should actually perform an operation on the argument being passed. At least, not in general. Same happens with 'lowercase'. Well, it answers the question I recall seeing about capitalizing: uppercase/part x 1 ;) Hi rebols, x: hello

[REBOL] Re: Mail delays - was Re: Sorry about my mails

2002-05-25 Thread Charles
Oh occassion, I've seen this behavior, too, with some of my messages. Well, I can't state which server it was, however, but it wasn't my ISP's fault, I know that much. Some of my mails, however, are appearing here up to five days late! There is trouble with my ISP's email server.

[REBOL] Re: (No subject)To: rebol-list@rebol.com

2002-05-20 Thread Charles
That's very odd, considering I've never had that problem, ever. And besides, WinZip can usually detect which decompressor to use, even if the extension is screwy. If you're downloading it using Windows, make sure that it says *.gz windows oftens changes the suffix so that winzip

[REBOL] Re: What?

2002-04-24 Thread Charles
That's pretty neat indeed. However, to get the current directory is just 'what-dir with no question mark. (In case you haven't found it yet ;) I just made an incredible discovery! I was looking for the function to tell me what the current directory is, I thought that it was what-dir?,

[REBOL] Re: local vars in functions

2002-04-23 Thread Charles
One part of REBOL that can feel odd is when i have to define local variables of a function in the first block of the function. I find it a bit annoying to have to add new variables to the list for every little local variable I use. In addition, I feel it clutters up the first block and

[REBOL] Re: refinement for whois protocol

2002-04-22 Thread Charles
I've got a script on my website for executing whois through my web browser. I'm sure it can be done more elegantly, but this was still early for me. And it works, so why mess with it? ;) Anyways, here's what the script says: ; service: internic.net service: whois.geektools.com print

[REBOL] Re: using Rebol for mail client app

2002-04-19 Thread Charles
This is my personal opinion, from what I've read, without trying IOS. But you might want to use REBOL/Core (for a text interface) or REBOL/View (for a gui) for your mail client. I don't really think you need IOS for all of that. My impression of IOS is that it's a whole suite of programs and

[REBOL] Re: Rebol : The Official Guide

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
'Dummies' is, yeah, intended for beginners, but it's also a good quick ref. And of course they all need updating - they need updating every time REBOL is updated. However, it's really not worth it to update a print item until a major change of content or time - ie, 6mos and REBOL/Core 2.7,

[REBOL] Re: Circular forwarding?

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
: Circular forwarding? To get more information for feedback you should try it again after doing: trace/net on Anton. Hi, Charles, From: Charles Yo all. I get a funny thing here. First, backstory: I've registered both chalz.net and chalz.com, but both point to the same site

[REBOL] Re: Tags, anyone?

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
and 'print?, except I didn't have REBOL around with which to test. And thanks for the example :) --Charles m: load-markup {body bgcolor=whitesome btext/b/body} == [[body bgcolor white] some [b] text [/b] [/body]] change next find first m 'bgcolor blue == [] m == [[body bgcolor blue] some

[REBOL] Re: XML to RTF

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
I actually haven't worked with XML, but if I understand correctly, XML isn't a language so much as it's a set of rules for building other languages (such as XHTML), so you'd need a script for each individual dialect - plain XML just wouldn't be enough. If I understand correctly. Hi

[REBOL] /View Upgrade

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
states: Missing file: http://www.rebol.com/view/tools/upgrade.r ?? Am I not supposed to be able to upgrade /View? :P --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: /View Upgrade

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
Ah! Hm. When /View says to click on 'local' to connect, it doesn't mean the folder off to the left, but instead the word 'local', tucked away at the bottom left. How confusing :/ Still, it's not nice to be told I'm running an unknown version when I'm obviously not. *shrugs* --Charles

[REBOL] Re: How to use parenthesis

2002-04-17 Thread Charles
Here's what I get in /Core: line: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz == abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz tcr: remove/part copy/part line 11 9 == jk offset: 7 == 7 line == abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz tcr: remove/part copy/part line (4 + offset) (2 + offset) == jk How is that not working? - Original

[REBOL] Circular forwarding?

2002-04-15 Thread Charles
http://www.chalz.com/cgi-bin/whois?chalz.net What does circular forwarding detected mean? And how come I can get a proper result using a web browser, but not REBOL? Thanks all. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Tags, anyone?

2002-04-15 Thread Charles
and exaplanations. Thanks for the work, Brett! --Charles For XML stuff there is Gavin's great work: http://www3.sympatico.ca/gavin.mckenzie/ Regards, Brett. - Original Message - From: Ammon Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:18 AM Subject

[REBOL] Distributed Computing Fear

2002-04-11 Thread Charles
Read this article earlier today. Thought it relevant, considering Morpheus, IOS, and recent bad news on Morpheus. The article itself deals with Kazaa. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2144 -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[REBOL] Re: Quick print question

2002-04-09 Thread Charles
, Charles, Charles wrote: Without having to reference docs (it's not actually that important - I'm simply curious) is there a quick and easy way to print separate lines? For instance, in the cases of: text: [ line 1 line 2 line 3 ] Or text: { line 1 line 2

[REBOL] Quick print question

2002-04-06 Thread Charles
/lines text to output each line (either EOL character, CR/LF, etc) without using a for-style loop. (for-looping becomes an issue with the {} style, since you can't just say foreach line text...) Thanks folks. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[REBOL] Re: Newbie install problem: Undefined symbol : atexit

2002-04-06 Thread Charles
of the info at the FAQ here might help (this is the 'platform-specific' section - mentions library errors etc). support/feedback should be able to help, though. http://www.rebol.com/faq.html#7674698 thanks. Going to ask to rebol support. Regards. Sébatien --- Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[REBOL] Re: FW: ftp dowlnoad of large file and read-io ....

2002-04-05 Thread Charles
So I just rewrote core.pdf example of ftp download of large file, and it doesn't work, unless I clear the buffer each time. What am I doing wrong? Isn't that kind of how buffers are *supposed* to work? At least, in any programming language I've ever worked in (which, granted, has only been

[REBOL] Re: Newbie install problem: Undefined symbol : atexit

2002-04-05 Thread Charles
. Sorry, this is all I remember. It's not a REBOL problem, exactly, but a difference in binaries and libraries. Or, it was in my case. --Charles - Original Message - From: Sébastien Cérèze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: [REBOL] Newbie

[REBOL] Re: Bugs, patches and distributed systems

2002-03-25 Thread Charles
if 1.2.1 copy/part to-string system/version 5 [request/ok Sorry. We need at least Version 1.2.1 of Rebol quit ] While initially reading about the REBOL [] block in a script a while back, I remembered a list of 'suggested' fields to use, one of which being a Requires block.

[REBOL] Re: Agentcities

2002-03-25 Thread Charles
. - Original Message - From: Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:55 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Agentcities And yet, what does it have to do with... anything? And what's AS? And what's Agentcities? And why should we care? AS sufferers

[REBOL] Re: 42 (Was Rebol Unity ??)

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
BTW, what is this 42 indicator all about? I'm aware of 42 being the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, but... (funny note: my cell phone number happens to be 4284. Totally randomly assigned.) Its a Douglas Adams joke.. somehow I never got into his work, so I've been

[REBOL] Re: STAT

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:25 AM Subject: [REBOL] STAT Listar wrote: rebol DigestSat, 09 Feb 2002Volume: 03 Issue: 040 In This Issue: [REBOL] Re: VID : Choice gadget

[REBOL] Re: Agentcities

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
And yet, what does it have to do with... anything? And what's AS? And what's Agentcities? And why should we care? AS sufferers are in constant denial, and as such are resistant to therapy. A committe was created in 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley to study therapy options.

[REBOL] Re: Rebol Hosting Providers

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
Do you have an address for us? Hi all, I have on my Reb-Site slok a page that currently list 2 hosting providers that supports Rebol. If you know of more, please send me an email and I will keep this page updated. Currently, the Reb-Site is running off my home machine which is

[REBOL] Re: Rebol Hosting Providers

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
Can't we just get a URL anyways? It's just that much easier than using /View and searching for it. On 24-Mar-02, Francesco De Napoli wrote: Hello Lok On 23-Mar-02, Lok Yek Soon wrote: Hi all, I have on my Reb-Site slok a page that currently list 2 hosting providers that

[REBOL] Re: marketing test

2002-03-24 Thread Charles
Not that MS is the only place which does this. I worked at a music site for a while which was devoted to amateur music (an MP3.com competitor, back in the day), and there were polls and ratings and votes etc for songs and artists etc. People don't realize that logs *are*, in fact, kept, and

[REBOL] Re: Lurker Comes Out Of Closet :)

2002-03-21 Thread Charles
REBOL cgi-bin and html scripting on their webhost solutions and personal pages? ;) --Charles I'm one of the beginnerest of the beginners. Downloaded REBOL a week ago. What I see looks nice. I want to use it on a web page but having the dickens of a time finding a web host which supports

[REBOL] Re: 42 (Was Rebol Unity ??)

2002-03-21 Thread Charles
. Also posts which *kind* of relate to REBOL, but aren't always just REBOL related (such as the CGI setup, and webhosts who do REBOL). --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: 42 (Was Rebol Unity ??)

2002-03-21 Thread Charles
BTW, what is this 42 indicator all about? I'm aware of 42 being the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, but... (funny note: my cell phone number happens to be 4284. Totally randomly assigned.) --Charles There is no way Rebol will compete with Flash... no, never, ain't gonna

[REBOL] Re: designing dialects - was OWL

2002-03-21 Thread Charles
It IS however a natural for a DIALECTING and ONTOLOGY language. I've been thinking a bit about this recently and especially as I consider XML / HTML to be verbose, not human centric in design, wasteful! why have closing tags for every value. ** After looking at XML a little, I have to

[REBOL] Re: To post or Not? was (Re: 42 (Was Rebol Unity ??))

2002-03-21 Thread Charles
of it far too often! :/ --Charles I've been using Rebol for about a week now. Although I am new to Rebol, I have extensive programming experience. I think this is one of the least intimidating mailing lists around. I`ve already asked and had several questions answered. Both quickly

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-19 Thread Charles
!zauafBpcvekexEohthjJakwLrngohOqrlryRnsctdtiub} 2 ] A new one hmmm.. You need serious help, you know that? Egads. I wonder if the unused letters spell something... But how to decipher it?... *laughs* --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-19 Thread Charles
Since # doesn't do anything, it's all good to include it. Pretty spiffy. Of course, if you try: $ hi You end up with Syntax Error: Invalid money -- $. I'm sort of curious why it doesn't give you Invalid issue, then, but that's for another topic ;) Thanks guys. --Charles

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-19 Thread Charles
From _The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style_ by Robert Bringhurst, a standard refererence in the field of typography... I thought typography was the study of errors during typing. Hmm... ;) octothorp Otherwise known a the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol

[REBOL] Re: Rebol programs

2002-03-19 Thread Charles
Another question: why www.rebol.com has not a full-featured site built using rebol interface? I can use Rebol only for some specific operations! What about the View Desktop? I missed the original post somewhere, so I'm quoting from Greg's post. I once asked [EMAIL PROTECTED] why they

[REBOL] Re: footer on Joel's email

2002-03-18 Thread Charles
, 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 # print hi and it prints hi okay. Help? --Charles The goofy looking string at the end is just an anti-spam encoding of my

[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

[REBOL] Re: Some Morpheus news ...

2002-03-17 Thread Charles
agreed. But then you end up with channel packages, like in cable TV, whereby a few good channels are grouped with a selection of crappy ones no one wants, simply so they'll be included. Heaven forbid the popular ones get money while the unpopular ones die. Oh well. --Charles -- To unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Windows Uptime API

2002-03-13 Thread Charles
You don't mention what version of REBOL is requird for this script. cliks: make routine! [ [ [ return: [integer!] [] kern32 GetTickCount ** Script Error: Feature not available in this REBOL Just as a general note, could people include something that states what

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Zine

2002-03-13 Thread Charles
Off the top of my head, it sounds like a scope issue. Just because a variable exists in the script doesn't mean it exists outside of the script. Lots of discussion on this. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:41 AM

[REBOL] Re: Rebol, FTP and quotas

2002-03-09 Thread Charles
result in a no-no - haven't tried it with REBOL)? --Charles From: Henrik Mikael Kristensen I'm getting a quota problem with two different ftp-servers, when I try to manipulate (delete, write) the files on the ftp-server: ftp-dir: some-ftp-server files: read ftp-dir foreach file files

[REBOL] Re: Yet another announcement...

2002-03-07 Thread Charles
Charles wrote: So, uh, Ryan... what's the URL? :) --Charles My site will be posted in the rebol sites list when its ready, probably toward the end of the month. In the meantime you can find my stuff in the rebol library as it becomes available. :/ I repeat my question

[REBOL] Re: Yet another announcement...

2002-03-06 Thread Charles
So, uh, Ryan... what's the URL? :) --Charles Keep your eyes out in the REBOL library, as I am releasing a few things this month: TEST VERSIONS Calculese -- A multifunction calculator dialect. Ready this month. FTP-Serve -- A light duty FTP Server. Ready this month. CaRB -- Callback

[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: Web hosting provider with REBOL support?

2002-02-26 Thread Charles
My webhost has allowed me shell access, and I stuck REBOL in ~/rebol/ .. no problem. I just set up my REBOL CGI scripts to go there. Other than that.. *shrugs* If there's more that I'm not following here, leme know. I will be needing to set up a site for my business in the next day or

[REBOL] Re: PAIR! and greater-than less-than

2002-02-25 Thread Charles
-than, because how do you *define* which is greater and which is less? But 'minimum just takes something like 'minimum AxB CxD and returns ExF, where E is the smaller of A and C, and F is the smaller of B and D. Pretty basic. Not sure, myself, what use it is, but hell, there it is. --Charles

[REBOL] Other methods for accessing a URL

2002-02-24 Thread Charles
a similar question had cropped up in the past, but I can't find the post now. Anyone help? The address is in the form of http://site/dir/dir/file.ext?argsargs ... thing is, args includes characters like %3C and arg=123 a couple times. Any assist? Thanks. --Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
Cool. Thanks, everyone, for the info! I've stuck the emails in my 'Snippets' folder for future reference. --Charles - Original Message - From: Andrew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
I'm sure someone else has gotten to this already (I only get to my email about once every 24hrs), but in case someone else hasn't mentioned this, there's always the good old method of (I know this isn't all totally proper REBOL, or good code): test: x list: [a b c d ...] idxs: [] i: 0 foreach

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
Use the SOURCE, Luke! ;-) Try copying the following into your interpreter window: help context source context help does source does help has source has Too much thinking in c? ;-) Heh. Actually, it's things like. okay, um... the language in help

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