Hi Carl, indeed I experience exactly the same phenomenon! CPU goes to 100% and I have to kill REBOL because it's stuck somewhere.
I'm running Win2k with all service packs / updates applied and REBOL/View 1.2.46.3.1. Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Arie van Wingerden http://home.zonnet.nl/rebolution/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: [port/skip] > > Hmm - I was badly wrong about skipping files after an open working okay - REBOL totally locks up when I attempt this kind of thing... (Taken from the Users' Guide: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-14.html#section-8.4)... > > fp: open/direct/binary %file.dat > fp: skip fp 100000 > > My example... > > >> write %test.txt "abcdefghijkl" > >> fp: open/direct/binary %test.txt > >> fp: skip fp 4 > > At that point it totally locks up. Esc's no use - have to use Ctrl/Alt/Delete to shut REBOL down. Using Win98SE. Is it the same for other Windows users? > > -- Carl Read > > >Are there any known problems with the use of skip with ports? As on files it > >doesn't seem to work for me... > > > >>> write %test.txt "abcdefghijkl" > >>> port: open/direct/binary %test.txt > >>> copy/part port 4 > >== #{61626364} > >>> close port > >>> port: open/direct/binary/skip %test.txt 4 > >>> copy/part port 4 > >== #{61626364} > >>> close port > > > >but does with URLs... > > > >>> port: open/direct/binary http://www.rebol.com/ > >connecting to: www.rebol.com > >>> copy/part port 4 > >== #{3C48544D} > >>> close port > >>> port: open/direct/binary/skip http://www.rebol.com/ 4 > >connecting to: www.rebol.com > >>> copy/part port 4 > >== #{4C3E0A3C} > >>> close port > > > >And if I use skip on an already opened port, ie... > > > > port: skip port 4 > > > >it'll work if it's a file, but if an URL it'll just hang with nothing > >returned. > > > >Easy enough to work around this behaviour with files, but does skip with URLs > >only work when opening the port? Or am I doing something wrong? > > > >-- Carl Read > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
