[REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(3)

1999-10-28 Thread mgaya
+ + 3 4 5 == 12 + + + 3 4 5 6 == 18 + + + + 3 4 5 6 7 == 25 I think its works! Mikel - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 5:01 AM Subject: [REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(2)

[REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(4)

1999-10-28 Thread jimg
The error occurs when you mix the two as in: + 2 3 + 4 == 10 2.2 gives you: == 9 - jim At 09:30 AM 10/28/99 +0200, you wrote: + + 3 4 5 == 12 + + + 3 4 5 6 == 18 + + + + 3 4 5 6 7 == 25 I think its works! Mikel - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[REBOL] Rebol website update :-) Re:(6)

1999-10-28 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You (and Bo) seem to totally miss the point. I'm not talking about personal comptuer uses, but embedded systems. Designing, implementing, manufacturing them as products... not something for my own personal use. Then YOU are missing the point. MSDOS is NOT and

[REBOL] Everything is relative... hmmm... Re:

1999-10-28 Thread giesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about having that opinion - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science You are right, but that implies (in

[REBOL] Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(9)

1999-10-28 Thread Petr . Krenzelok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was certainly not my intention to begin or participate in a flame contest over this. I simply asked what I thought was a very straightforward, logical, and meaningful question... and I'm still looking for a direct answer. Perhaps

[REBOL] Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(10)

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
Hi Petr, Thanks for carrying my simple question further... (I can only imagine the responses NOW!) heheh. Yes, that's a related, or extended, area of interest for me... I simply thought the question of DOS was a large enough leap to see what the "low end" intentions of REBOL were (and now we

[REBOL] Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(11)

1999-10-28 Thread Steve . Shireman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Petr, Thanks for carrying my simple question further... (I can only imagine the responses NOW!) heheh. Yes, that's a related, or extended, area of interest for me... I simply thought the question of DOS was a large enough leap to see what the "low end"

[REBOL] Everything is relative... hmmm... Re:

1999-10-28 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! ... - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science reduced to some nice-sounding crap. ... Do anybody

[REBOL] Line limit? Re:

1999-10-28 Thread bo
On 27-Oct-1999/21:13:20-4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a (practical/theoretical) limit to the length of a file in a flat file database under REBOL? (Linux OS, if that makes a difference.) - fleet - No limit as long as you have enough memory to support it... :-)

[REBOL] Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(12)

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
Hi Steve, What I've done is certainly NOT something one could slip into an application and have the full functionality of TCP/IP/SLIP (or PPP) for client and server that you seek. Sorry if I seemed to imply that. What I have done, mostly to see what could be done and to learn the raw elements

[REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(4)

1999-10-28 Thread rryost
Try it with the minus operator, -, per the subject of this thread. REBOL HQ has defined this prefix usage to be equivalent to the 'negate word. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 12:30 AM

[REBOL] Rebol website update :-) Re:(7)

1999-10-28 Thread Martin-Steigerwald
I'm quite serious about the Rebol on DOS question The question is pointless unless a PC DOS has a TCP/IP stack. IMHO one could still use some small flavor of Linux on that 386 or 486 machine then. Has TCP/IP and it should be possible to get a REBOL for it. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald

[REBOL] Rebol website update :-) Re:(8)

1999-10-28 Thread Martin-Steigerwald
You miss the point, as well. "BACK?" to 16-bit systems??? Both 16-bit AND 8-bit micros are alive and well in the embedded world.. surprise! Just take a look at the very active development of new chips at Microchip (www.microchip.com) or Hitachi for current examples. Perhaps the upcoming

[REBOL] Rebol website update :-) Re:(6)

1999-10-28 Thread Martin-Steigerwald
You (and Bo) seem to totally miss the point. I'm not talking about personal comptuer uses, but embedded systems. Designing, implementing, manufacturing them as products... not something for my own personal use. Sorry... I was serious about my post. It was not meant in sarcasm or

[REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(6)

1999-10-28 Thread Martin-Steigerwald
also with parenthesis: + 3 ( 4 + 5 ) == 13 + 2 ( 3 + 4 ) == 10 This is no wierd Pentium bug, isn't it? ;-) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://helios.home.pages.de PGP: http://home.pages.de/~helios/autor/wie-erreichen.html

[REBOL] Rebol website update :-) Re:(9)

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
Martin, You're quite right that many 32-bit CPU's have dropped considerably in price. Of course, to them we must add suitable memory, interface chips, etc. Oh, and, of course, software! :) I think the issue is that there is no such thing as a "typical" embedded application. So, what's

[REBOL] Need a Script

1999-10-28 Thread phil
Hello All, I need a script to check a web page and if it is there then do nothing if it is not there then send me email, I know this can be done in rebol, can anyone help?? Regards, Philip M. McDonnell

[REBOL] Need a Script Re:

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
Perhaps you can adapt the following. For a single site this will work IF your web-hosting provider doesn't step in and supply a "default page" when the real page is not found. mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] site: http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html if not exists? site [send mail "Can't find page!"] If

[REBOL] Selma

1999-10-28 Thread phil
Hello All, Where can one get a copy of SELMA??? This email list server? Regards, Philip M. McDonnell

[REBOL] Need a Script Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread phil
Russ thanks for the help. I am trying to make a script to check a site every xx:xx minutes and see if a specific word on a page exists. if not send me email... and do this forever... Regards, Philip M. McDonnell __

[REBOL] Use of - in prefix notation. Re:(7)

1999-10-28 Thread joel . neely
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is no wierd Pentium bug, isn't it? ;-) No! The Pentium bug would have produced + 3 ( 4 + 5 ) == 12.0048296 + 2 ( 3 + 4 ) == 8.45267 ;-) -jn-

[REBOL] Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(13)

1999-10-28 Thread Steve . Shireman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, What I've done is certainly NOT something one could slip into an application and have the full functionality of TCP/IP/SLIP (or PPP) for client and server that you seek. Sorry if I seemed to imply that. What I have done, Russ, Thanks for all the

[REBOL] Need a Script Re:(3)

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
Ok, add a little to what I sent before: keyword: "whatever" ; word to find on page delay: 00:10:00 ; amount of time to wait mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; your email address site: http://yoursite.com/yourpage.html ; site/page to check while[1] [ wait delay page: read site if not

[REBOL] [REBOL] Need a Script Re:(4)

1999-10-28 Thread venter
-original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: [REBOL] Need a Script Re:(2) Russ thanks for the help. I am trying to make a script to check a site every xx:xx minutes and see if a specific word on a page exists. if not send me email... and do this

[REBOL] Everything is relative... hmmm... Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread ole_f
Hi , 28-Oct-1999 you wrote: Sorry about having that opinion - I'm not a fanatic physicist, but do know that the point of Einstein's relativity theory is that the speed of light is constant (i.e., /not/ relative), and I'm generally tired of cases of science You are right, but that implies (in

[REBOL] OpenBSD port Re:

1999-10-28 Thread kolla
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I managed to get the OpenBSD port to work by symlinking a few things that were linked in the binary. The termcap file had changed, as I did the same when the openbsd/m68k port showed up to get it to run on netbsd/m68k, I never

[REBOL] Declaring Arrays

1999-10-28 Thread rebol . phb
Is it possible to use a variable to declare the size of an array ? my-array: array [3] When using j: 3 my-array array[j] or j: 3 my-array: array[:j] I get the error ** User Error: Integer size required. ** Where: make error! "Integer size required" Cheers Phil

[REBOL] OpenBSD port Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread truman
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are netbsd and openbsd really that different that they require different builds? i doubt it. but symlinking libraries will still be necessary. Would be nice if someone build a new rebol binary on OpenBSD 2.6. .truman.

[REBOL] epoch? Re:

1999-10-28 Thread d95-mjo
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Perl *shudder* and Unix, you can use the number of seconds from the Epoch (January 1, 1970) in programs. How can I do this in Rebol; i.e. get the number of seconds from the Epoch? --Ralph Well, here's a rather ugly piece of code that

[REBOL] Selma Re:

1999-10-28 Thread lmarzulli
Welcome to the REBOL email list. Thanks for joining in the discussion. This email list is run by a REBOL script named SELMA: Simple Email List-Managing Applet. Here is some helpful information: Commands to REBOL SELMA are given on the subject line of your message. These commands are currently

[REBOL] Declaring Arrays Re:

1999-10-28 Thread brian . hawley
Hi Phil! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use a variable to declare the size of an array ? my-array: array [3] I see your problem right here. You don't declare arrays, you create arrays, like this: my-array: array 3 == [none none none] Note that array is a function, which can take

[REBOL] epoch? Re:

1999-10-28 Thread lmarzulli
Hi Maybe can be optimized ; ahora: now hms: parse to-string ahora/time ":" seconds-from: (ahora - make date! [1 1 1970]) * 86400 + ((to-integer hms/1) * 3600) + ((to-integer hms/2) * 60) + (to-integer hms/3) ; regards At 04:57 p.m. 28/10/99 -0400, you wrote: In Perl *shudder* and

[REBOL] Declaring Arrays Re:

1999-10-28 Thread icimjs
Hi Phil, you wrote: [snipped around] j: 3 my-array array[j] my-array: array[:j] I get the error Try j: 3 == 3 my-array array reduce [j] == [none none none] Elan

[REBOL] Selma Re:

1999-10-28 Thread Al . Bri
Philip M. McDonnell wrote: Where can one get a copy of SELMA??? This email list server? Send an email to this list with a subject line having only: help in it and all shall be revealed, including the answer to your question. Andrew Martin REBOL mystic... [EMAIL

[REBOL] none

1999-10-28 Thread robert . lancaster
help

[REBOL] Extraction Re:

1999-10-28 Thread allenk
Hi Chuck, I'm just going to point you in the right direction, without giving you a precise answer, as I believe everyone who wants to get the most out of REBOL needs to take the time to learn the power of Parse. So your answer lies in here http://www.rebol.com/user-guide/parse.html And

[REBOL] epoch? Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread bo
While we're on the subject of optimization, how about this? now - 1-1-1970 * 86400 Have fun! On 28-Oct-1999/19:08:32+4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maybe can be optimized ; ahora: now hms: parse to-string ahora/time ":" seconds-from: (ahora - make date! [1 1 1970]) * 86400 +

[REBOL] epoch? Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread ralph
Another good solution! Thanks for the help from Sweden; it makes me proud to drive a Volvo (I really do). Best, --Ralph -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 5:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] epoch? Re:

[REBOL] Re: Rethink - new real markets (was) Rebol website update :-) Re:(12)

1999-10-28 Thread anton_rolls
Hello Russ, On 29-Oct-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS -- Perhaps further discussion of this should be done off this list, as I'm not sure that many here are interested in these topics, and I think REBOL's position is now clear. Anyone interested may feel free to Email me directly. I think

[REBOL] New REBOL Dictionary, Beta 2.2

1999-10-28 Thread carl
A new REBOL Dictionary has just been posted to our site. Thousands of changes have been made. New words, new descriptions, new examples, new links, and much more. http://www.rebol.com/dictionary.html (374K) Or, you can download the REBOL compressed version:

[REBOL] Everything is relative... hmmm... Re:(4)

1999-10-28 Thread carl
Always been one of my favorites. But, also overused. -Carl At 10/28/99 04:42 PM -0400, you wrote: BTW, if REBOL Tech. _do_ want to cite Einstein, better make it "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler". That fits REBOL a lot more, I guess. Nice quote. That's one of

[REBOL] Declaring Arrays Re:

1999-10-28 Thread 70740 . 503
Phil, Try my-array: array j Jerry

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1999-10-28 Thread ty
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[REBOL] New REBOL Dictionary, Beta 2.2 Re:

1999-10-28 Thread xmldiva
Hello, I tried sending some recommendations for improvements to the online documentation. But the message was returned to me saying: The error message was: no such address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure this is the correct address? Thanks, Cheryl - Original Message - From:

[REBOL] epoch? Re:(4)

1999-10-28 Thread Russ
You mean to use 31-12-1969 At 10:40 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote: Elegant, except it's one day off ... should be now - 12-31-1969 * 86400, except that gives an invalid date.

[REBOL] epoch? Re:(5)

1999-10-28 Thread rryost
REBOL *must* be basing dates on a stored Julian day number. They should give us a word 'julian that returns the julian day no for a given date, and some other word to convert it to a date. The Julian day number accounts for leapyears, number of days in each month, etc. There are a number of

[REBOL] Multiple REBOL

1999-10-28 Thread phil
Hello, Does anyone know if you can run multiple copies of REBOL??? Like two different listservers? Regards, Philip M. McDonnell

[REBOL] epoch? Re:(6)

1999-10-28 Thread jimg
Hi, Try this: t: now/date == 28-Oct-1999 t/julian == 301 1-jan-1999 + 300 == 28-Oct-1999 - jim At 09:56 PM 10/28/99 -0700, you wrote: REBOL *must* be basing dates on a stored Julian day number. They should give us a word 'julian that returns the julian day no for a given date, and

[REBOL] Multiple REBOL Re:

1999-10-28 Thread jimg
Hi Philip, There shouldn't be any problem. - jim At 01:50 AM 10/29/99 -0400, you wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if you can run multiple copies of REBOL??? Like two different listservers? Regards, Philip M. McDonnell

[REBOL] Multiple REBOL Re:(2)

1999-10-28 Thread phil
Thanks, Another question how do I get the other files I need to set up a list server like this one, I d/l'ed the source for SELMA (this list server) but it needs other files to run like users.r theword.r, etc.. Regards, Philip M. McDonnell - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]