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Graham, REBOL/View 1.2.48.3.1 29-Jul-2004 Core 2.6.0 does, so I assume 
Core 2.6.0 does. I don't know about the other versions.

Just wanted to give everyone a piece of advice regarding spyware 
and how to really keep it from effecting you.  Permissions is the 
key word here.  Disable all access to prone registry keys and startup 
directories and other entry points.  Its extremely effective.

I might make a util some time for doing all this so that before you 
install software you can quickly undo the changes.

another tip : make everyone run as a limited user in XP

which Keys specifically Paul?

There are many Colin.  I would get more specific if I had more time. 
 But the browser keys for internet explorer in both and default users 
key as well as any established user keys.  Also a mus tis the RUN 
keys in the same.  Deny access for the proper group your account 
or others accounts on the machine are using.  There is also the shell 
key you would  want to protect also as many viruses like to alter 
the shell line.  Put permissions on autoexec.bat autoexec.nt  win.ini 
system.ini config.sys  and config.nt also.

any one here have mathlab software?

I used it 6 years ago, but only coded small example for one of my 
friends. I am imo no more fluent with the tool ...

hum, I need a dll built up from a mathlab project...

never did anything like that .... you seem to like matlab functionality 
:-) It kind reminded me of rebol ...

oh its, not my project, its the opposite, trying to find someone 
to convert a third party mathlab project into a easy to use stand-along 
rebol dll with only one .h file to translate...

its current a multi-file ordeal with some mathlab scripts ...

and cpp, + .h files all mixed up...  and a dll for some funcs...

so no special math functions?

I don't know... but mathlab has a compiler which is supposed to allow 
creationg of C object modules or dll files for easier integration 
outside of mathlab... (thats what it says on the web site anyways)

yes, it came after version 5, the last I used was 4

I once "translated a matlab script to Rebol and was amazed how Matlab 
computed square-root

square-root -4 is -2 according to Matlab

is square-root -4 even possible?

cause  -2 X -2 obviously doesn't amount to  -4  ;-)

exactly, that was the reason why I was surprised, nevertheless the 
author of the program was content with it, so I had to "translate" 
to Rebol as follows:

(sign? x) * (square-root abs x)

eeks..

anyway I doubt about the correctness of such a program

yet there lies a paper which has code along with it which allows 
us to select obects in an image merely by painting vague strokes 
on them...

and its coded in mathlab...

square-root -4
 only exists with complex number, not real one.

yes, the correct result is an imaginary number 2i

ahhh

Seems that request-file/file  doesn't work

EE degree is based on the square root of -1, to create sine waves...but 
in high school the Algebra teachers told us it was just imaginary...so 
I guess I have an imaginary degree.

Anyone know how I can find my password for the Developer IOS server?

nevermind I think I found it

Had to change the registry entry to the correct path.

was there another outage about 20 mins ago ?  I see everyone who 
was on logged off at the same time - including myself, involuntarily

yup

Can anyone give me a good tip for a free tape backup program that 
is able to backup workstations (windows) on a LAN via UNC names like 
\\my-system\c$

why not just script it up with rebol?

How would rebol connect to the taps driver ?

*tape

I wasn't thinking of tape actually, I was thinking more along the 
lines of backup to other harddrive storage

Bo has written such a utlity .. that also backs up to a ftp directory

I have a program I made myself also.

It would be nice for a rebolish way to interface to tape drives and 
dvd writers

Yeah - Carl should try to chime in sometime on some suggestions on 
how to do that.

Graham, right, I need to access the tape. The next problem is to 
handle things like: open-files, system state for Windows machines 
etc. IIRC Windows provides an API for backup-programs. If you want 
to do live backups of things like running DBs or Exchange etc. you 
need special APIs as well.

Hi, does someone know a good development environment which can create 
DLLs and simplifies COM programming? I want to create some wrapper 
DLLs for Rebol that use COM objects. But I really don't want to hack 
through MBs of MS header files etc.

Borland Delphi. They have an Open Edition that is no-charge.

Hmm... my Pascal knowledge is a bit rusty ;-)) Thanks.

My son Josh wrote a tutorial on this.  I don't remember at the moment 
exactly where he put it, maybe on his web site, but I will find out. 
 A very simple, to the point how-to.

...well, I don't remember if .com   (sorry)

it was some free download c compiler.