On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Holger Kruse wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:48:10AM -0800, Tom Conlin wrote:
> > 
> > 1) system calls (all the other kids have them)
> 
> View/Pro and Command have them.

Yes I know
view/pro relies on X11 and I am not
Command ... I'm saving my pennies, almost there. 

However, I saw that in the ios/Developer
"Vote on Priorities" under "Improved Command functionality" 
Carl has at least considered moving shell access into "free versions"

<quote>
side note: - possible rethinking of moving /Shell and
/library components into free Rebol versions (it could be still locked by 
secure key requirement), but could be free (at least shell) ..." 
</quote>



> 
> > 2) sort/stable 
> 
> sort already is stable. The only situation in which it may appear unstable
> is if you use your own comparison function and return false/true from it.
> You need to return integers (<0, =0, >0) instead, for stable sorting, or
> don't use a comparison function at all.
>
great, thanks for the tip, I tried it once and the sort was not stable
I was definatly using  /compare  do not recall what I was returning
most likely  obja/fld <= objb/fld  which returns a logic! 

 
> > 3) non pdf docs
> 
> AFAIR docs are also available in html format.

it does get hard to recall 

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