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Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 4:53 PM
Subject: [REBOL] system call? how? Re:(3)
> Hi Gabriele,
> you wrote:
> >People complaining about not being able to do lowlevel I/O, should
> >really be complaining about their OS being too limited.
>
> On the same note I've been thinking of formalizing a Standard REBOL
> Execution Environment (SREE ;-), which would specify OS extensions that
> would allow a seamless integration of REBOL. I.e. Open the OS's API for
> REBOL port access and provide an interface specification that ensures that
> REBOL scripts will be able to use stand interface words to access OS
> specific capabilities.
>
> Basically, there would be a gateway process available on a local or remote
> machine, which is accessable via a standard port and supports the SREE
> standard interface specification. If I want to read/write to serial port,
> for instance, I access the specified port and use user supplied, platform
> specific implementations of standardized words, to communicate with the
> REBOL - OS Gateway on the target machine. The words are universal, their
> implementation is system specific. On a different platform, my script
calls
> the same words, they interact with the gateway process in a way that is
> compatible with that platform.
>
> 1. I'm not sure to what degree that is possible.
> 2. Since extended versions of REBOL have been announced, this kind of
> effort may become obsolete very soon and therefore I'm not motivated to
> pursue this idea too far.
>
> Any thoughts?
I like it :-)
Kat
