[REBOL] Re: question from beginner change string Title by TITLE

2002-10-21 Thread al . bri
>> help case Found these words: lowercase native! Converts string of characters to lowercase. uppercase native! Converts string of characters to uppercase. > > From: "patrick.scotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/22 Tue AM 06:21:14 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

[REBOL] Re: Project introduction ... Re: Re: RFC: Rebol Framework

2002-10-08 Thread al . bri
Petr Krenzelok wrote: > That's the first thing someone will have to explain me - why naked-objects or RFM >uses blocks and name value pairs? Is there any advantage? Yes! :) Because one can alter the block at runtime! For example, adding more fields or removing them. That allows customising eac

[REBOL] Re: Rebol Server Pages

2002-10-07 Thread al . bri
Maarten wrote: > Using open and close as local variables is not a very good choice, for obvious >reasons. > > i.e. <% copy open %somefile %> Some times I need the obvious pointed out to me. I'll change it. Thanks for pointing it out, Maarten. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com

[REBOL] Re: Embedded macros ..

2002-09-09 Thread al . bri
> Wish I knew how to debug this to see what is happening. Unfortunately, I forgot to say that I normally have this file loaded into Rebol: Rebol [ Name: 'Common-Parse-Values Title: "Common Parse Values" File: %"Common Parse Values.r" Author: "Andrew Martin" eMail: [EMAIL PROT

[REBOL] Re: Rebol and XML processing

2002-09-08 Thread al . bri
One could use my ML dialect to generate the XML from Rebol values, for example: [ Rebol [] print ML [ Products [ Item [ Name "Apple" Description "Japan-import Big Red Apple" Unit-Price $5.70 Inventory 1200 Inventory-Safe-Lev

[REBOL] Printing with Rebol on Windows network

2002-08-20 Thread al . bri
Printing with Rebol on Windows network I've been exploring how to print over a Windows 2000 network, and have just managed to get it work. Here's an example of printing to a local printer (printer attached directly to computer running Rebol): write/binary %//prn read/binary %Test.txt Note

[REBOL] Enhancement Request - Rebol on new Amiga

2000-12-14 Thread Al . Bri
It would be very nice if Rebol ran on the new Amiga: http://www.amiga.com/press/zine/4-17-00/AW7.htm Andrew Martin -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: What's the rate of Ally list mailings the last day or two?

2000-12-04 Thread Al . Bri
Allen Wrote: > No one has been asking any questions there since Omnipetence.r was distributed. > Just add it to your user.r file. Though I still find it a bit buggy.;-) I keep getting these: create new universe [Y/N]? messages after several billion iterations. Which makes me suspect t

[REBOL] Re: Invalid Path Value

2000-11-30 Thread Al . Bri
> >> print rotation-file/rotation-count > ** Script Error: Invalid path value: rotation-count. > ** Where: print rotation-file/rotation-count Try: rotation-file/:rotation-count Note the colon ":" which means "get" the value of the following word, instead of using the word literally.

[REBOL] Re: another sug*estion? /soft seeking ...

2000-11-28 Thread Al . Bri
Petr Krenzelok wrote: > I am not sure If I am alone missing the so called soft-seeking capability in REBOL? >What's the point? > > Let's assume the following series: > > blk: [1 2 3 6 7 8 9] > > find blk 4 returns currently none, but there are cases, when you want to return the >nearest value

[REBOL] Re: variable number of arguments

2000-11-26 Thread Al . Bri
GC> Can a function have a variable number of arguments? AM> No. But you can simulate it, by using 'any-type! function specifiers and passing unset! as arguments. Better is to use refinements. LM> Yes, a function can have a variable number of arguments. Do is such a function, as e.g. in: take-

[REBOL] Re: variable number of arguments

2000-11-26 Thread Al . Bri
Russell Yost pointed out: > As a rank amateur, couldn't a function handle a variable number of arguments if they >were "passed" in a single block? Of course. That's the best way of passing any number of arguments. You can also pass the multiple arguments as a string of characters as well if tha

[REBOL] Re: looking for a function...

2000-11-12 Thread Al . Bri
> > Anyone who has ever used a good HTML stripper, such as the excellent HTTX (Amiga), >knows how useful they can be, when called by other programs. > How does such a thing deal with tables and other anti-text HTML format elements? Convert to preformated using tabs or lots of spaces? Andrew Ma

[REBOL] Re: running on Win without a DOS window?

2000-11-05 Thread Al . Bri
Wayne Pierce wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to run a REBOL script/program in the background on >Windows 95/98/NT/2000? Yes. Don't 'print anything from the script, and the Rebol script won't produce a console window. > I have a program that will need to run on some end user computer

[REBOL] Re: Quittina processes

2000-11-02 Thread Al . Bri
> From: Sharriff wrote: > do I have to "quit" a CGI script always or is it just good programming practice? >I´have´nt had a problems yet. "Falling out the bottom" should be OK. You'll only need to put 'quit in when the software needs to quite earlier, usually for error conditions or where it ma

[REBOL] Re: CGI string output

2000-11-02 Thread Al . Bri
Sharriff wrote: > my REBOL CGI script is creating forms with content and tables, as I am not using >any web dialect due to the graphic design of page, I´ve got REBOL to create the page >"Chunkwise". I´ve got to a point where one of these chunks (strings with curly >braces) also have text capt

[REBOL] Re: inserting the current date

2000-10-31 Thread Al . Bri
Sharriff wrote: > I´ve go a HTML set up as a navigation bar, after a successful login, the login >script normally emits a frameset page that calls "mynavigation frame.html" and " >mybody frame.html" from the disk, which are static. I would like to display the >current date in the navigation pag

[REBOL] Re: Overhead for insert and blocks

2000-10-31 Thread Al . Bri
Chris wrote: > Andrew Martin wrote: > > > Internally the files look like: > > > ...how are blocks stored? > > > ...is the data arranged in a single continuos memory area? > > Watch carefully... > But that doesn't actually answer my question. I'm not talking about the >representation the user see

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]HTML tags in content, not in source

2000-10-29 Thread Al . Bri
Tim Johnson wrote: > I want to be able to show an actual tag in the web content that my CGI program >writes, to give directions to a user. Maybe I just have to rely on '< and '> I'm >sure that will work. Yes, that's what you have to do. Take a look at my R2HTML.r script of Rebol.org for an exa

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]HTML tags in content, not in source

2000-10-29 Thread Al . Bri
Tim Johnson wrote: > Howdy: > I need to be able to display literal representations of HTML tags in the content >itself. > > example: > > test: func[][print ""] > calling test results in the comment tag being placed in the source code. > > I want it to appear in the content itself. > Any ideas.

[REBOL] Re: Prolog dialect in Rebol

2000-10-29 Thread Al . Bri
gerry wrote: > Just a thought,Can't Prolog be embeded in rebol? just like this: > > log-block? [gerry,carl,bo,jane,chaz] > => true > log-block? [write(hello),nl,fail.] > =>true > > logic-database: [ > rebol(X) :- prolog(X). > prolog(facts). > prolog(predicates). > prolog(clauses). > prolog(unifi

[REBOL] Re: you'll think I'm crazy, but...

2000-10-29 Thread Al . Bri
Rishi Oswal wrote: > I was wondering if it would be possible to create a sparc assemby dialect for rebol. >It would be useful for prototyping assembly code for my assembly class (without need >a sparc machine or assembler). That would definitely be possible in Rebol. You can even create the bi

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2000-10-25 Thread Al . Bri
> There is already a graphical calendar for rebol/view in the demos. Someone already >wrote it. Who has the pointer/link to it? Allen Kamp wrote it. try RebolForces on the WWReb. or www.rebolforces.co.au IIRC. Andrew Martin -><- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAI

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2000-10-25 Thread Al . Bri
Sharriff Aina wrote: > One cannot use the "+" or "-" operators on a Date! value, how does one increase or >step through date! values then? I´m trying to construct a graphical calender. It seems to work for me: REBOL/View 0.10.38.3.1 3-Oct-2000 Copyright 2000 REBOL Technologies. All rights rese

[REBOL] Re: Antwort: Re: Help!

2000-10-23 Thread Al . Bri
Sharriff wrote: > I plan to store other vales like Department, email e.t.c. that's the reason why I >opted to store and read these values from a text file. How do I pass a block of >information pertaining to one user (email name, login-name e.t.c.) to "Associate"? Like this: Associate Users-Bl