Hi Elan:
I have done pretty much as you have. With similar
results. As far as CGI goes, I'm moving gradually
to Linux, so don't have a great need to solve this.
It is CGI related only.
When I get done with setting up Apache
on my RHL box, I think I'll stick it on my WinNT
machine too....
Thanks!! :)
Tim
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> Hi Tim,
>
> my book doesn't cover View (and therefore contains no information about
> that monster known as the Windows registry ;-). Recall that /Core does not
> use the registry!
>
> I tried simulating your problem using the Windows run dialog box
> (Start button -> Run) instead of using a Web Server (i.e. CGI program). The
> purpose is to determine if the behavior you observed has to do with REBOL
> and the registry, or whether it has to do with how REBOL is executed by the
> Web server you are using at the time REBOL gets called in your CGI script.
>
> If you duplicate the following steps do you get the same results? (My
> REBOL_HOME environment variable BTW is set to my /Core directory, not the
> /View directory. The user.r file I modify in the following steps is in
> /View's directory, because /View is associated with .r files in the Windows
> registry, not /Core.)
>
> 1. My .r files are associated with REBOL/View in the registry. (View did
> that automatically during installation).
>
> 2. I added a line to the user.r file in the View directory that displays
>
> print "this is user.r"
>
> 3. I saved a REBOL script to my \temp directory. This script simply
> contains the two lines
>
> ask "Whazzzup? "
> halt
>
> 4. I brought up the Run dialog (Start -> Run ...) and entered d:\temp\test.r.
>
> 5. Then I clicked OK.
>
> 6. The REBOL shell was started.
>
> 7. The REBOL shell correctly displayed
>
> this is user.r
> whazzzup?
>
> end then closed once I hit return.
>
> This means that when REBOL/View was launched by MS Windows because it is
> associated with .r files in windows registry, View first processed the
> user.r file in its startup directory, and then proceeded to process the
> test.r file in the \temp directory as expected.
>
> At 12:40 PM 9/19/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi John:
> >Thanks!! More below....
> >
> >> Hi Tim,
> >> Have you tried setting the environment variable REBOL_HOME="c:\program
> >> files\rebol" ?
> >
> >Yes. Works for command line.
> >
> >> Rebol will alsp pick up a user.r from the current directory.
> >> cheers, john
> >
> >And I find this also to be true for command-line scripts,
> >however when I run cgi script
> >from a directory with user.r present in that directory, it doesn't
> >seem to be evaluated.
> >
> >value data in the registry is set to:
> >C:\Program Files\View\rebol.exe -cs %s
> >And cgi scripts work fine.
> >
> >Do I perhaps need to add user.r there?
> >
> >I'm nervous about trying it so faor because
> >I don't like to do anything in the registry
> >without being thoroughly informed.
> >
> >Any other ideas?
> >
> >And I'm going to check Elan's book.... :)
> >Regards
> >Tim
> >
> >>
> >
> >>
> >> Hi:
> >> It appears that user.r is not evaluated by rebol unless rebol
> >> is started from the home directory.
> >>
> >> To clarify :
> >>
> >> 8<--
> >
> >
> >
>
> ;- Elan [ : - ) ]
> author of REBOL: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE
> REBOL Press: The Official Source for REBOL Books
> http://www.REBOLpress.com
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