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so the file may look like %localhost_atport_88/test.php_query_id=100

anton: yes, seems that the crash is gone

#3623 the proposed split-path fails in some situations

for example here: %file or here: %e./

this is a different version which use parse and is > 4X  on my system

rebol[
	Author: "Romano Paolo Tenca"
	Date: 10/02/2005
]
split-path-3: func [

 "Splits a file or URL pos. Returns a block containing path and target."
    target [file! url!]
	/local dir pos
][
	parse/all target [
		[#"/" | 1 2 #"." opt #"/"] end (dir: dirize target) |
		pos: any [thru #"/" [end | pos:]] (

   all [empty? dir: copy/part target at target index? pos dir: %./]
			all [find [%. %..] pos: to file! pos insert tail pos #"/"]
		)
	]
	reduce [dir pos]
]

it also fix this split-path bug:
>> split-path %""
** Script Error: Out of range or past end
** Where: split-path
** Near: last target
>> split-path-3 %""
== [%./ %""]

Oldes, good ideas. Do you think the "?" -> "%3F" is a replacement 
which is more prone to collision (than a longer string such as "_query_" 
) ?

Or perhaps you think it could cause problems of automatic decoding 
when ( if it ever happens ), the public cache path is converted back 
to a URL! ?

Anyway, I think the "?" replacement is the one that fixes the most 
common problem. I think ports are not such a common problem. Obviously 
you needed it to work for something..., but I wonder what your opinion 
on it was.  We shall need to make a total solution at some stage...

Gosh! now I think it might be better to replace the "?" with a slash 
"_query/"  (<-- note the slash), so it becomes a new directory.

eg: path-thru http://www.dom.com/cgi.r?hello
;== view-root/public/www.dom.com/cgi.r/hello

Anton, if you do that, how do you convert it back?

I guess you can't, unless you know more. I just leapt at that idea 
because I thought it would reduce the amount of repetition in path 
and filenames.

(so all the cgi.r queries would be grouped as files in the cgi.r/ 
directory)

Mmm.. similar to Oldes' method, you could replace "?" -> "_query/", 
  then directories that end with "_query/" are converted back to 
"?"

Ahha! I just re-read my previous post... :) Duh!

The example should have been:

eg: path-thru http://www.dom.com/cgi.r?hello
;== view-root/public/www.dom.com/cgi.r_query/hello

I just found a strange bug:
>> read %rebol.r
== {
REBOL [
    Title: "REBOL Extended Definitions"
    Date: cvs-date "$Date: 2001/04/29 16:00:17 $"
    Rights: "Copyright (C)...
>> read %rebol.r.
== {
REBOL [
    Title: "REBOL Extended Definitions"
    Date: cvs-date "$Date: 2001/04/29 16:00:17 $"
    Rights: "Copyright (C)...
>> read %rebol.r.....
== {
REBOL [
    Title: "REBOL Extended Definitions"
    Date: cvs-date "$Date: 2001/04/29 16:00:17 $"
    Rights: "Copyright (C)...

Trust me, these files do not exist: [ %rebol.r.  %rebol.r..... ]

I'm on WInXP NTFS, can anyone try linux or another filesystem ?

No such problem on Win98   -- tried it with the live and latest betas.

I'm on Win/XP and got this with Core 2.5.6

>> print read %rebol.r
REBOL[
    Title:   "REBOL Extended Definitions"
]

feedback: func [
    "Send REBOL feedback."
][

    print "Go to http://www.rebol.com/feedback.htmlto send feedback."
]

There is a file rebol.r in the directory where rebol0301.exe

Actually, this looks like a WindowsXP or NTFS problem, not a problem 
of rebol at all, because I can "Run D:\Anton\Dev\Rebol\View\rebol.r...." 
and my text editor (associated with .R files) pops up to edit rebol.r

Peter, now do this:

print read %rebol.r.......

(including all those extra period markers.....)

When I tried the same with Rebol 2.5.8 which is just sitting on my 
desktop and got 

>> print read %rebol.r

** Access Error: Cannot open /C/Documents and Settings/Peter/Desktop/rebol.r
** Near: print read %rebol.r

Same results with the periods

That's a different issue. Try the bolded code exactly as above.

Ok. So you see the bug too.

Sunanda, are you using NTFS ?

No, just plain FAT

So problem on WinXP/NTFS,  no problem on Win98/FAT. Definitely not 
a problem of rebol. I hesitate to post a RAMBO ticket.

Anton: what "list-dir" give you as result ???

And "what-dir" ???

Just the one file, trust me :)

The bug is shown for any file, not just rebol.r

i can confirm your observation

eg. rebol.exe....

looks like ntfs ignores leading dots

what can you expect from ms...

yeah... trailing you mean. :)
>> exists? %...rebol.r
== false
>> exists? %rebol.r....
== true

has anyone found out the cause for red icons in IOS?

I noticed one entry in RAMBO from Oldes or someone else, describing 
incorrect handling of timezones or something like that ...

but dunno if it is realted or not ....

I think so. Bad timezone found by QUERY (as used by INFO?). Replacement 
is to use GET-MODES file 'modification date.

(from memory)