Hi Sunanda, thanks for your explanation. I was thinking of the call scenario before, but thought there was a better way. Normally info? or size? should do the job. But i learned that to wait for it to do so could be a little bit too time consuming. So i think using call is the best solution available.
Cheers Thorsten On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:12:50 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Thorsten: > > > Has anyone a solution for this or can shed some light on me?? > > Not a solution -- but a possible work around. > > problem 1: counting beyond 2**32 > > Integer! doesn't work as you've noted. > > Decimal! values in REBOL are precise to around 10**14, so you can safely > (as > far as I can tell) do precise arithmetic up to around that bound: > n: 0.0 > for p 0 14 1 [ > loop 9 [ > n: 10 ** p + n > ] > ] > n > > Problem 2: getting the file sizes > > info? won't work as it returns the value in an integer. So you need to > use an > operating system call of some sort. > > Under Windows with a version of REBOL that has CALL enabled, it's simple: > > my-dir: copy "" > call/output "dir \\p-hh-nas1\dbbackdev\mysql\newbackup\daily\tvfast" my-dir > > You can then parse out the file size column from the captured directory > listing. > > Sunanda. > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
