One of the things that excited me about Rebol was this kind of 
cross-platform interconnectivity. True, let's build a Watson-like 
product in Rebol. Fine.

The trouble I've found -- this weekend trying to automate some file 
handling tasks on my iMac -- is that Rebol is not native to each OS. An 
instance of Rebol has to be running in order to execute the .r 
scripts -- or am I missing something?

I ended up using Applescript, because it would run on double-click from 
the desktop. Same with some apps I'm working on for windows -- Rebol has 
to be running to launch the apps.

Is there a way around this? If not, then I'm afraid that 
platform-dependency is what's going to happen, and Rebol will be lost.

Hoping for a solution,
sd

On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 04:36 , Petr Krenzelok wrote:

> Hi,
>
> That's absolutly unbelievable. OsNews.com editor is excited by 
> something like Watson - Am I blind, or is that just another interface 
> to certain web pages? Kind of wrapper as folks here did for SlashDot. 
> Or is that anything else?
>
> I think that that's exactly the area Rebol could shine in - to mine 
> info from web and provide unified interface to it. Kind of a tool folks 
> here did to SlashDot?
>
> If users are all crazy about it, time for Rebol to step in :-)
>
> http://www.karelia.com/watson/
>
> -pekr-
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