Hi Sterling:
Sorry, your modification resulted in a crash also.
write/append DstFile [line newline]
Be interesting to see if there are different results regarding
other OS's. Windows isn't all that stable anyway.
Oh well!
-Tim
At 10:50 PM 6/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Well, this is untested code as I'm crunching away on some other stuff,
>but try:
>
>foreach line text
>[
> print line
> write/append DstFile [line newline] ;HOPEFULLY DOES NOT CRASH HERE!!
>]
>
>instead. Yes it's probably _very_ slow plus the other thing should
>never crash REBOL. That will be looked into.
>
>Sterling
>
>> I'm reposting this, as I've had no takers from the
>> previous, and I note that Holger may be monitoring....
>> I have tried a couple of different approaches to rewrite a file
>> and an FTP site, and the result is always that rebol crashes
>> and Dr. Watson intervenes.
>> (Current version of view).
>> Here's the code, I'd welcome comments.
>> ;================================================
>> DstFile: ftp://usr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/log.txt
>> SrcFile: ftp://usr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/log.bak
>> text: read/lines DstFile
>> if exists? SrcFile [delete SrcFile]
>> rename DstFile SrcFile
>> ;print type? text
>> DstPort: open/new/write DstFile
>> foreach line text
>> [
>> print line
>> append DstPort [line newline] ;CRASHES HERE!!
>> ]
>> close DstPort
>>
>> ; I am running from a Win NT 4.0 Workstation Platform with upgrade
>> ; 5.0
>> ; I am writing to a Linux machine.
>>
>> I can make this work if I do the rewrite on my machine and then
>> FTP it to the site, but it would be just wonderful if I can do
>> the backup and editing at the site.
>>
>> TIA
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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>
