[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I noticed today that doing the following
>
>     write %file read http://foo.com/bar/baz
>
> has the unfortunate result of (apparently) double buffering the entire
> contents of baz in memory during the whole process.  Big problem if
> you're fetching, as I was, a massive file...
>
> Is there some other mechanism for doing this that would in essence
> stream the bits from pipe to disk w/o buffering the whole thing even
> once, much less twice?

Maybe following Bohdan's script could inspire you? :-)

http://www.rebol.org/file/movefile.r

Cheers,
-pekr-

>
>
> jb

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