tf wrote: > when running this very simple thing, after I'm prompted with "what day?" REBOL hangs. the rest of the prompts come up "correctly" after I hit enter. Why is that? I tried it, after commenting out this line: change-dir %/home/ 'cause I've got no directory with that name, and got: Script: "Title Here" (27-Dec-1999) What Day? Monday How many hours? 3 What did you do? Took attendance records for local school. What Jobsite? Colenso HS with this in %mytime.txt: Day: Monday Hours: 3 Task(s): Took attendance records for local school. Jobsite: Colenso HS It seems OK to me, except for the leading space before these lines: "Day:" and: "Hours:" But that's due to the space in this: [{^/ Day: } day {^/ Hours: after each newline character. What's the problem? :-\ Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/ -><- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2000 12:14 AM Subject: [REBOL] where does that space come from? > where does that space come from? > > Hey guys, > > when running this very simple thing, after I'm prompted with "what > day?" REBOL hangs. the rest of the prompts come up "correctly" after I > hit enter. Why is that? > > > > #!/path/to/rebol -sc > > REBOL [ > Title: "Title Here" > Date: 27-Dec-1999 > File: %file.r > ] > > change-dir %/home/ > day: ask "What Day? " > hours: ask "How many hours? " > describe: ask "What did you do? " > jobsite: ask "What Jobsite? " > > output: rejoin [{^/ Day: } day {^/ Hours: } hours {^/Task(s): } describe {^/Jobsite: } jobsite {^/}] > > write/append %mytime.txt output > >