If I were you I would change NT to SP 6a, version 5 was very very bad, and got replaced quickly by Micro$haft. We installed it in several machines that had Sp4 and the computers that were reliable with SP 4 had nothing but problems so we stopped installing it. SP 6 is very stable though. At 12:14 PM 06/06/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Really? It worked for me... but I'm on Linux. >Try it with 'trace/net on' > >trace/net on > >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 >foreach line text [ > write/append DstFile join line newline >] > >So if you do that to a small file (just 2-3 lines), what does the >trace show is happening? > >Sterling > > > 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 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > >
