On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, you wrote:
That's an attitude that might make sense if you believe the future
will just be like the present, and I'd probably agree with you if the
roads were still full of black Model Ts, but they're not and so I
won't.
I don't see a future with just a few OSs having
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:19 PM
Subject: [REBOL] eBay manager program Re:
It might provide some visibility when thousands of ads and emails
read "ReBay - Powered by Rebol". And thousands of new people would
At 04:18 PM 9/23/00 +0200, you wrote:
Since I am evaluating the language, I am mostly interested about its
advanced features. Although there are hundreds of pages of very good
documentation about the basic syntax of Rebol it really lacks documentation
about the most advanced features which Rebol
Heh, RT was offered possibility of bundling REBOL as a package with default
distribution of RtP which is gonna be available in few days (26.9.) by CEO
of QSSL, Dan Dodge. I've suggested Carl to go for it. greenboy, chief of
Phoenix developers consortium suggested REBOL/View to Carl too IIRC,
This would be a program to manage a buyers' or sellers' own auction
transactions. There are already programs that do some of what I was
suggesting. I don't think it would be in competition with eBay, but
would make it more profitable for sellers and save time for buyers,
thus increasing
A couple feature request regarding file browsel
- ability to browse remote directory (ftp://.)
- graphical display of hierarchy of folders...I'm curious if there was a reason to
omit this...why
enter path manually when it can be done both graphically and/or manually? To
processing
Jeff already signaled, that List! and Hash! datatypes are being fixed. I
succeeded to track down the behaviour to the following:
h: make hash! 0
insert h copy "0123456789"
h
recycle
insert h copy "0123456789"
CRASH!
just in case you didn't know...
Regards
Ladislav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said at Ò[REBOL] Re: Over 40 Platforms make for
good press, but Re:(2)Ó.
[Sep/24/2000Sun 00:56]
...
...
- Gotta go with the status quo.
...
...
-That's an attitude that might make sense if you believe the future
-will just be like the present, and I'd probably agree with
pekr wrote:
I think if you can - just generate .html output and browse it ... print
from your browser.
Earlier, I wrote a Rebol script that generated HTML and JavaScript so that
the HTML document is automatically printed. I put it on this list, but I
don't recall the message number. If you go
The best way to get FTP to work with NBCi is to spell their name correctly!
ftp.nbci.com
Andrew Martin
Embarrassed Rebol...
ICQ: 26227169
http://members.nbci.com/AndrewMartin/
http://members.xoom.com/AndrewMartin/
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pekr wrote:
When we are building menu for e.g., we think in terms of menu, not this
face here, this over there, etc. So:
main "File" #"F"
"Print-setup" #"P"
"Something" #"o" sub "ble"
I quite like this dialect approach:
Menu [
File "File" #"F" [
New "New" #"N"
On 9/24/2000 at 1:15 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO I think it is ridiculous to think that "Open Source" projects
can be cloned by each newbie-programmer.
This is an important point. What many people who write code overlook is
that the marketplace still considers software applications an
On 9/24/2000 at 4:06 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every computer will be both server and client without requiring a
computer science degree to configure and protect. You
can't do all this using the status quo, but it can all be done, and is
in development right now.
It wasn't so long ago that
On 9/24/2000 at 10:19 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yet piracy of the "code" isn't really a problem
Has it ever been a real "problem"? (Damages you could prove.) Or just a
bogey-man?
-Ted.
At 07:08 a.m. 24/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
This is one reason Sun's StarOffice isn't taking the corporate world by
storm -- there isn't a lot of desktop support in place for the product,
and that's where people spend the real bucks - training and customization.
I tried it. It's kind of clunky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/23/2000 at 4:14 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1)Self-employed curmudgeons like myself.
2)Programmers for large organizations, like government,
municipalities.
And then there's someone like me, a self-employed curmudgeon who
contracts with larger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, you wrote:
...
BOTTOM LINE: As has been pointed out in the recent "40 platforms"
thread, there's a real marketplace out there. While Carl and
company would be within their legal/moral/whatever rights to stop
supplying REBOL for
On 9/24/2000 at 6:50 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that if there were full attention to these details it would
be very successful, as there is a lot to like about the product. It is
surprisingly useful for web page design, for example, but the weird
aspects made me leave it after a while.
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, you wrote:
At 07:08 a.m. 24/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
This is one reason Sun's StarOffice isn't taking the corporate world by
storm -- there isn't a lot of desktop support in place for the product,
and that's where people spend the real bucks - training and customization.
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 24-Set-00, you wrote:
r I recently emailed rebol regarding support for R/View on qnx
r rtp. They basically said probably, but they haven't decided
They HAVE to port /View on RTP, why else did they partecipate to
the Phoenix consortium?
I'd like to have an intent
As long as his support for As long as his support for
that environment doesn't that approach doesn't
FORCE ME to use it when IFORCE ME to use it when I
choose not to. choose not to.
Right, thats my opinion too, but by using compile to
Hi:
I see that we have taken a thread more about
strategy and marketing here, and I hope
rebol team people are reading this.
Interesting thing coming up here... I think.
Koffice (KDE answer to Microsoft Office)
is supposed to provide hooks to a number of
languages, rather than a proprietory VBA
Hello,
I'm not much of a programmer, but I've been following Rebol since it was
Lava, and I like the direction it (or RT, or Carl) is taking us.
Currently I'm enjoying Elan's book very much (great writing style,
Elan!), and even though I haven't yet found my a good project for Rebol,
I did
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right, thats my opinion too, but by using compile to hide the
source we would loose the ability to acces code at runtime of
compiled code. Coming from CommonLisp I think this would be
very bad - we would give away a really important feature!
I don't want to
Well, let me throw in some thoughts.
I think, that the debate started to look more abstract than I prefer. My
comments are:
1) Rebol is IMHO designed with the runtime code accessibility in mind
(inspired by Lisp), so I do not think, there's an easy way to convert that
feature to its opposite.
At 05:31 p.m. 24/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
Have you ever tried the 5.2 release? (A whole bunch of changes)
It's a 40 mb download (I think). the last one was arduous. This is Mexico.
Then comes Cancun, which is at the end of the line, believe me. I keep
meaning to get the CD, but other things
Sorry for this, but:
How do I unsubscribe from this list. I've tried all the usual things, and I
don't even get a reply.
Thanks
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How do I unsubscribe from this list?
Just reply to this email, change the subject to just this:
UNSUBSCRIBE
and click "send".
Big hint: Use copy and paste, so the spelling remains correct. OK? Then
you'll be unsubscribed from the list.
Or execute this Rebol program:
[rebol
On 25-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for this, but:
How do I unsubscribe from this list. I've tried all the usual
things, and I don't even get a reply.
This is the Welcome email I received. I assume unsubscribe still
works as stated...
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Welcome to the REBOL email list.
There can be the problem that you have moved your email account.
Then you must go to that place where you started the whole thing off!
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Helsinki Business Polytechnic
Hello everybody,
I've uploaded a few scripts that adds some XMLRPC functionality to REBOL and an
extended XML parsing function to my (brand new!) REBOL section at
http://www.obscure.dk/rebol/
It's very much beta, and quite untested (and no server-side functionality yet), but
anyways, here's
On 25-Sep-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tell me. What killer app, what "must have" will any
new OS bring that won't be ported by Gates and others
within weeks as they did with browsers, e-mail,
servers etc.? But with one HUGE difference. The new
OS starts off with 0% of the market share,
Bug! path! in objects don't behave the same as path! outside object.
REBOL/View 0.10.34.3.1 23-Sep-2000
Copyright 2000 REBOL Technologies. All rights reserved.
base: make object! [
[p: does [print "function 'p in 'base"]
[]
derived: make object! [
[p: first [base/p]
[]
p:
Jeff already signaled, that List! and Hash! datatypes are being fixed. I
succeeded to track down the behaviour to the following:
h: make hash! 0
insert h copy "0123456789"
h
recycle
insert h copy "0123456789"
CRASH!
just in case you didn't know...
It does the same
On 9/24/2000 at 11:15 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tell me. What killer app, what "must have" will any new OS bring that
won't be ported by Gates and others within weeks as they did with
browsers, e-mail, servers etc.? But with one HUGE difference. The new
OS starts off with 0% of the market
Puh-lease! I subscribed to this list to learn REBOL
from those of you who are so well-versed in it and
have explored very advanced topics with it. But more
and more, I have to wade through 20+ postings
regarding opinions on marketing, open-source,
comparison of platforms (each with lots of
Is there a web navigator written in rebol? I would liek to check it's code
and see if it can open any web page, so far my scripts can't seem to handle
all hmtl web page I try to have it parse.
Akhar
How does one read other folders besides "inbox" using
mail?
TIA
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Puh-lease! I subscribed to this list to learn REBOL
from those of you who are so well-versed in it and
have explored very advanced topics with it. But more
and more, I have to wade through 20+ postings
regarding opinions on marketing, open-source,
comparison of
I strongly agree.
Greg
Grant wrote,
I realize this has been somewhat of a rant, and let me
reiterate that I learned a lot from the list in its
earlier days, but it has become not very useful in the
past few weeks. Can we get back to being more
on-topic?
Respectfully (and I mean that),
Hi Andrew,
you wrote:
Bug! path! in objects don't behave the same as path! outside object.
Which parallel case involving paths are you thinking of?
Here is an example case that does not involve objects at all and behaves
exactly the case you attribute to objects:
base: func [/p] [ either p
Hi,
just would like to ask, if firewall panel connection works for you with
new /View version?
Thanks,
-pekr-
You read my mind!
SNR is definitely swinging into the negative numbers.
All things being equal I would like to take this opportunity to express my
humble gratitude to those that have answered my questions (as well as those
of others) so expeditiously and with such charity.
On the flip side...
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