[REBOL] Re: demo of a tree interface

2004-05-04 Thread Jaime Vargas
Very Nice! Only problem I see is that it uses some keys that are not available in other platforms or keyboards; ie. insert. Maybe a different key combination will be more portable. Cheers, Jaime -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Alan Kay On May 4, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Alain

[REBOL] Re: dump-binary

2004-05-01 Thread Jaime Vargas
Thank you all for the input. Below is a new version of dump-bin that includes Ashley's suggestions. Hallvard you got my permission to include in prob.r. Greg, I think your suggestion that probe should produce output similar to dump-bin by default is great. I hope Carl goes for it. Finally, I

[REBOL] dump-binary

2004-04-30 Thread Jaime Vargas
I have being working with binaries a lot lately so I created this tool that lets you examine the contents of a binary in a more explicit way that you using probe. Please critique my code so that I can improve it. Thank you, and enjoy -- Jaime dump-binary: func ['buffer /local v b t c r pad pl l

[REBOL] Re: Threading continued

2004-01-29 Thread Jaime Vargas
Thanks Chris for your correction, it great to have well informed people in this list! Cheers, Jaime -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Alan Kay On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Christian Morency wrote: > > >> Jaime Vargas wrote: >> -- The best way to predic

[REBOL] Re: Threading continued

2004-01-29 Thread Jaime Vargas
I think it is worth. It will help with some applications that are doing a lot of different things all the time. It is kind of nice to invoke a thread let it run in the background a yield back to the gui and only waiting for completion of the thread. Don't know about performance though. If it

[REBOL] Re: Rebol for Openbsd 3.4

2003-12-24 Thread Jaime Vargas
DJ, You probably can get Rebol/Core for 3.3 to run on 3.0. You just need to link to the proper libc. I will try to test this and let the list know. Regarding 3.4-- the problem is that RT needs to generate new distros. OpenBSD has changed from a.out binary format to ELF. ELF was used for all t

[REBOL] Re: comparing two URLs

2003-10-24 Thread Jaime Vargas
Hallvard, You can possibly use id: checksum/secure read url and this id as a unique hash identifier for the page. With use this id to index your database, and If two URLs have the exact same content you will obtain the same checksum and you can then add the new URL reference to the db without a

[REBOL] Re: delete-emails.r

2003-09-23 Thread Jaime Vargas
Hi Robert, MD5 checksums will not work for slightly mutating content. We need some sort of fuzzy signature to classify the spam. Also there should be a very fast an efficient protocol to consult the central database for this "signatures". IMHO I think it would be best to have the centralized s