[REBOL] Re: long unsigned

2002-06-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
It turned out the protocol I am doing is implented in strings, so no problems anymore... --maarten Anton wrote: > I think you hit the bit limit of a > signed integer in rebol? Rebol has no > unsigned integer as far as I remember. > > Here's a few suggestions: > 1) Send formatted as long signe

[REBOL] Re: long unsigned

2002-06-18 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Maarten, Maarten Koopmans wrote: > > Hi I am *trying* to send a string formatted like this: > > "%lu %lu %ld \n" in C-style printf format over a tcp connection. > > However the long unsigneds give always the same (strange) > value on the server (which is a binary for me). > > How can

[REBOL] Re: long unsigned

2002-06-18 Thread Anton
I think you hit the bit limit of a signed integer in rebol? Rebol has no unsigned integer as far as I remember. Here's a few suggestions: 1) Send formatted as long signed, then get rebol to convert to decimal! on the server. 2) Send formatted as float or double. What is the "strange" value se