[REBOL] Locking mechanism

2000-03-26 Thread bregolin
Hi, is there a way to achieve locking in Rebol? I mean, physical or advisor locking to achieve controlled access to a resource (file, or others). This subject is pretty much platform-dependent, however it is an important issue when concurrent programs need to share access to common resources.

[REBOL] String formatting

2000-03-14 Thread bregolin
The following is rather trivial... anyway: what is the most convenient way of formatting strings in Rebol, let say for producing suitable output, la printf/sprintf in C? Thanks, Mauro Bregolin begin:vcard n:Bregolin;Mauro tel;fax:+39 049 8073066 tel;work:+39 049 8073066 x-mozilla-html:TRUE

[REBOL] Script return code

2000-02-24 Thread bregolin
First of all, thanks to everybody who promptly answered my former question on email attachments. My question of the day is: what mechanism can be used to (programmatically) test whether the execution of a Rebol script has been successful or not? If I'm right, a script has no way to return an

[REBOL] Script return code Re:

2000-02-24 Thread bregolin
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, my posting was referring to situations in which one has to "glue" together the execution of multiple scripts, not necessarily all of them written in Rebol. A motivation could be legacy applications (if we call "legacy" whatever is already there and we won't/can't

[REBOL] [REBOL] Multipart emails

2000-02-23 Thread bregolin
Does anybody know how (or has written something) to handle multipart email messages? I mean things like listing, extracting attachments from a message when reading it, or composing an email message consisting of a number of attachments? Thanks Mauro