---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:23:22 +0200 From: Fantam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rebol Hello all, Some time ago on this list, there was a discussion regarding usage examples of Rebol -- how people actually use Rebol. This is an interesting topic for various reasons, and I decided to share with you one way I use rebol. First of all, I have to specify that I program for "domestic" reasons, and not in a professional way. That said, I can now tell how I put my first steps of Rebol in use. What I wanted was a program that could detect if I am connected, and if so, upload recently modified files to a ftp server. The important thing was to automate everything, so it would run in the background with no user interaction. Since I use NT, I installed the scripts as services (services are processes that can run independently of the current logged user). The code was not very complicated to write, but to make the program run reliably took some time and revealed a couple of weak points or bugs with Rebol, some not solved yet. The two bugs related to the ftp scheme in Rebol are: a, Impossible to 'read filenames with spaces. b, Bug with 'exists?. With some hacks though, it was possible to accomplish the objective of the program, and it runs solidly for some time now. That's it. Maybe this will give someone ideas. Any further questions welcome. Note: RT are aware of the aforementionned bugs. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
