[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Anton Rolls
Couldn't you still use his idea? Just put the a context and the maker/initializer function into your ride context. :) You end up with a context in a context in a context... but what the hey. Anton. -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 12

[REBOL] Re: Shell productivity wish-list

2001-10-12 Thread Cyphre
- Original Message - From: Graham Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 5:12 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Shell productivity wish-list On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:55:57 +0200 Cyphre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some info about the vconsole version 0.0.4:

[REBOL] Re: ftp to parent directory on a HP-UX

2001-10-12 Thread Micael . Gullmes
Thanks John! I will look in to it. Brgds /Micael 8-- Micael, I had similar errors with AIX 4.3 and eventually discovered that it was a bug in the ftp server. This was easily fixed by applying a quick APAR. May be worth checking the HP-UX ftp daemon bug list. Good luck, John 8-- I cannot

[REBOL] adding set-words to a context from outside

2001-10-12 Thread Anton Rolls
Does anyone know how to add words to an object from outside that object? For example, take an empty object o: o: context [] ; Now some voodoo stuff happens ; here that adds a word to o ; and the result... probe o make object! [ a: none ] And if you want to know why I want to

[REBOL] Re: adding set-words to a context from outside

2001-10-12 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Anton, try Once upon a time Anton Rolls spoketh thus: Does anyone know how to add words to an object from outside that object? For example, take an empty object o: o: context [] ; Now some voodoo stuff happens ; here that adds a word to o o: make o [a: none] ; and the

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Ammon, you could start at the root of all evil ... a: make object! [ [b: make object! [ [c: object [] [d: make object! [ [b: make object! [ [c: second object [] [

[REBOL] rebol scaling

2001-10-12 Thread Will
Hello all 8) I've urgent need to scale an application that actually use rebol/core apache and erebol.r as apache preprocessor. what is the wiser solution? I'm on mac OSX so no /command for me 8) if I go rugby or lrwp will I have to rewrite code?? Thanks a lot and have a nice day Will Arp

[REBOL] Re: adding set-words to a context from outside

2001-10-12 Thread Media
Hi, sorry for butting in... but if you do: obj_a: make object! [ attrib1: 1 ] obj_ptr: obj_a obj_b: make obj_a [ attrib2: 2 ] Am I right in saying that obj_ptr still references obj_a which only has one element? so is there a way to grow an object? cause in some circustances, you

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Cyphre, I think this should be: a: make object! [ [b: make object! [ [c: object [] [d: make object! [ [b: make object! [ [c: second object [

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Cyphre
Hi Romano, Also if 'a is not finished, its set-words are well defined while the 'a body is executed. The delay of execution with a func is useful only if a/b/c would be defined after 'e. In this case, there are others solutions. Yes, Rebol is flexible ;) so there are lots of other

[REBOL] Re: Shell productivity wish-list

2001-10-12 Thread Jason Cunliffe
wow This is great news! Thank you :-) ..looking forwards to testing it - Jason - Original Message - From: Cyphre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:55 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Shell productivity wish-list Hi all console fans ;) Some time ago I

[REBOL] Re: adding set-words to a context from outside

2001-10-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi, Max sorry for butting in... but if you do: obj_a: make object! [ attrib1: 1 ] obj_ptr: obj_a obj_b: make obj_a [ attrib2: 2 ] Am I right in saying that obj_ptr still references obj_a which only has one element? so is there a way to grow an object? cause in some

[REBOL] Email Attachments

2001-10-12 Thread mechtn
Hey, This is Koie again working on this email attachments. I have finally figured it out and am making progress with learning how to send email and such. My question is i want the program to prompt me on what file name to attach and then it send.. currently my program looks like... rebol [

[REBOL] Newsgroups server

2001-10-12 Thread Patrick Peccatte
Hello, I have found many samples of code to build a newsgroups reader. Is exists anywhere some samples to build a true newsgroups server ? or even a full operational but simple newsgroups server written in Rebol ? Thanks -- Patrick Peccatte (new on the list) www.softexperience.com -- To

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi, Volker Aother trick: a: context[ b: context compose[embedded-in: (self)] ] everything you write in brackets in compose is replaced before makeing the context, so the (self) is a/self. If you like object trick, look at this: REBOL [] a1: context[ _self: 'self b: 2 self:

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Cyphre Hi Romano, Also if 'a is not finished, its set-words are well defined while the 'a body is executed. The delay of execution with a func is useful only if a/b/c would be defined after 'e. In this case, there are others solutions. Yes, Rebol is flexible ;) so there are lots

[REBOL] Re: Email Attachments

2001-10-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Koie, My question is i want the program to prompt me on what file name to attach and then it send... Have you looked at request-file? --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] vconsole error report: request-file

2001-10-12 Thread Jason Cunliffe
I would like to hear your comments, bugreports etc. ..ok Here'e one file:http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/vconsole.r version:0.0.4 udata: request-file opens request-file but does not respond to SELECT button then opens rebol shell with this report: ** Script Error: tail

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Cyphre, thanks, you are right, next time i use a freshly opened rebol console for testing ... ;-) kind regards, Ingo Once upon a time Cyphre spoketh thus: Hi Ingo, Oops, your solution doesnot work since you are trying to assign recursive value form undone object: -- To unsubscribe

[REBOL] Re: Intresting article on meta-programming and reflection

2001-10-12 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Nice article. I sent Rebol URL to them. Thanks Ladislav - Original Message - From: Cal Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rebollist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:52 PM Subject: [REBOL] Intresting article on meta-programming and reflection I ran across this article

[REBOL] Re: Email Attachments

2001-10-12 Thread mechtn
where can i find help on how to use this request-file? sorry i'm still new at this... koie - Original Message - From: Gregg Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Email Attachments Hi Koie, My question is i want

[REBOL] SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Not necessarily what subject suggests, but interesting interview with author of SHEEP, new AmigaDE scripting language. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=169 I can't imagine having Rebol compiler compiling 50 K scripts in 0.1 sec, performing at C level speeds :-( -pekr- -- To

[REBOL] Re: vconsole error report: request-file

2001-10-12 Thread Graham Chiu
** Script Error: tail expected series argument of type: series port ** Where: go-bottom ** Near: ctx-text/view*/caret: tail ctx-text/view*/caret tmp: (second caret-to-offset v-con tail ctx-text/view*/caret) Snap! I had the same problem when I clicked on a field that I had added to a

[REBOL] Update

2001-10-12 Thread Paul Tretter
Take the following code: view layout [q: area this is a test] how could someone update the window so that: if some logic about what is displayed [update the area window with this text] Paul Tretter -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[REBOL] Re: Fun with blocks of words (a tad longish)

2001-10-12 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hello Ladislav! On 11-Ott-01, you wrote: LM I do not understand... Have you got any reason for telling LM us, that the words are different? Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said that. :-) The difference is in that they are on different memory locations (each value in a block is in a different 6

[REBOL] Re: Update

2001-10-12 Thread Ammon Cooke
You mean dynamically changing the text while the window is open? view layout [ q: area this is a test button update [q/text: This text show q] ] Or dynaimcally create the box to start with? new-q: func[text][ view layout compose [ q: area (text) ] ] HTH! Ammon

[REBOL] Re: SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Carl Sassenrath
They would be better off using REBOL, but perhaps they don't want their scripts to run and exchange data across 40+ platforms -Carl At 10/12/01 10:33 PM +0200, you wrote: Not necessarily what subject suggests, but interesting interview with author of SHEEP, new AmigaDE scripting language.

[REBOL] Re: Backwards Navigation on path

2001-10-12 Thread Ammon Cooke
FYI, Better yet a: make object! [ [Init: func [][ [d/e/f: system/words/a/b/c [] [b: make object! [ [c: Object [] [d: make

[REBOL] Re: SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Carl Read
On 13-Oct-01, Carl Sassenrath wrote: They would be better off using REBOL, but perhaps they don't want their scripts to run and exchange data across 40+ platforms Not to mention doing it now, as apposed to sometime in the future - perhaps... -Carl At 10/12/01 10:33 PM +0200, you

[REBOL] Re: SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Graham Chiu
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:33:25 -0700 Carl Sassenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They would be better off using REBOL, but perhaps they don't want their scripts to run and exchange data across 40+ platforms But then they would have to pay for Pro licenses for each unit so that they could

[REBOL] Re: vconsole error report: request-file

2001-10-12 Thread Cyphre
Hi Graham and Jason, Thanks for your reports. I know where is problem...this will be fixed in the next release(approx. in 3-5 days ;-) ) regards, Cyphre P.S. Graham, I was very busy at work so sorry for the even bigger delay with color-text. Finally during the weekend I will have time for

[REBOL] Re: SHEEP vs Rebol

2001-10-12 Thread Christian Morency
Hi Graham, They would be better off using REBOL, but perhaps they don't want their scripts to run and exchange data across 40+ platforms But then they would have to pay for Pro licenses for each unit so that they could have sound :) me: make object! [ say: func [joke

[REBOL] Re: Email Attachments

2001-10-12 Thread philb
Hi Koie, think this is a bug in attach.r ... or maybe in the Rebol send command ... if you change the line in attach .r send/header header/to mesg header to send/header copy header/to mesg header you will get your to address. Cheers Phil -- original message -- i also for some

[REBOL] vconsole error report: request-file

2001-10-12 Thread philb
Hi Cyphre, bug report (Win98) start normal rebol console ... do http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/vconsole.r list-dir press close window return to normal rebol console do http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/vconsole.r ** Internal Error: Stack overflow ** Near: v-con/view/new v-f Also is it possible to

[REBOL] On-line seminars for September 11th Fund

2001-10-12 Thread Joel Neely
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[REBOL] Re: vconsole error report: request-file

2001-10-12 Thread Graham Chiu
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:39:21 +0200 Cyphre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham and Jason, Thanks for your reports. I know where is problem...this will be fixed in the next release(approx. in 3-5 days ;-) ) Also,noticed that sometimes lose the first character typed in the console. But,

[REBOL] Question about date? function

2001-10-12 Thread Brock Janet
Should the date? function return false if an invalid date is entered? For example, when entering (-MM-DD); date? 2001-12-25 == true So you would think that a False would be returned if a date was incorrect, however, unexpectedly; date? 2001-13-25 ** Syntax Error: Invalid date --