World: r3wp

And I see you've solved the potental 64-bit / variable hex problem

Well actually Tomc made the suggestion.

Sorry for the slow reply but if I leave Altme open it keeps stealing 
focus from my coding program .  I have to shut Altme down so I can 
work.

Here's another odd one that has be puzzled

(Notice that appending something to the Writefile variable, also 
appends it to the DateStr variable!  Very Strange!)

>> WriteFile: "WriteFileName_2005-05-07"
== "WriteFileName_2005-05-07"
>> DateStr: skip tail WriteFile -10
== "2005-05-07"
>> Success: append WriteFile "_Parsed.txt"
== "WriteFileName_2005-05-07_Parsed.txt"
>> probe DateStr
2005-05-07_Parsed.txt
== "2005-05-07_Parsed.txt"

Nevermind.  I think I should have used a copy of Writefile.  DateStr 
must be a subset of  WriteFile variable because of the reference 
to it's tail.

Yep, it just  needed a copy as in:
>> DateStr: skip tail copy WriteFile -10
== "2005-04-11"

gordon:  home-icon - settings - options -unset  "activate window 
on new message"

Thanks Tomc; that should do it.

how to decode this url ?

input: uggc%2Fjungvfzlvc.pbz

output: http://whatismyip.com

rot13: func [s [string!] /local result top][
    result: copy s
    repeat n length? s [

        top: either s/:n >= #"a" [97][65] ; determine upper or lowercase

        if (i: s/:n - top) < 26 [ ; only 26 letters in alphabet affected
            i: i + 13 // 26 ; perform rot13
            poke result n to-char top + i ; insert new letter
        ]
    ]
    result
]

sunanda: i can only think of:

>> index? find (as-binary a) xor as-binary b complement charset "^(00)"
== 7

though, i'm not sure it's an easy way, and it is probably overkillif 
a and b are "big".

another option would be to try with parse, though it's gonna boil 
down to some kind of loop anyway.

>> parse a [any [(char: b/1) char (b: next b)]]
== false
>> b
== "45678"

How to set correctly progress function for read-net? Or what causes 
following error and :                                            
                >> myProgr: func [ tot bt ] [ print bt / tot ]

>> read-net/progress to-url "http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv36?map=/usr/loca

l/www/docs/mapserver_demos/tests36/expressions/test.map&map_counties_class_expression=(%

5bAREA%5d %3e 7577272785.15339)&layer=title&map_title_class_text=Counties+Larger+Tha
n+Itasca+County&mode=map" :myProgr
0.425625
** Script Error: not is missing its value argument
** Where: read-net

** Near: all [:callback size not callback size length? buffer data: 
true break]
not data
>> source read-net
read-net: func [

    {Read a file from the net (web). Update progress bar. Allow abort.}
    url [url!]

    /progress callback {Call func [total bytes] during transfer. Return 
    true.}
    /local port buffer data size
][
    vbug ['read-net url]
    if error? try [port: open/direct url] [return none]

    size: to-integer any [port/locals/headers/content-length 8000]
    buffer: make binary! size

    set-modes port/sub-port [lines: false binary: true no-wait: true]
    until [
        if not data: wait [60 port/sub-port] [data: true break]
        if data: copy port/sub-port [append buffer data]

        all [:callback size not callback size length? buffer data: true break]
        not data
    ]
    close port
    if not data [buffer]
]
>>

is your callback function returning a value? i think it should return 
true normally, or false if you want to cancel the download.

Use request-download as a guide. It has everything you need to know. 
you should be able to substitute read-thru with read-net if you wish.

O'k. My mistake are offen do not tell what is my target. So it is 
to get working status bar in a layout. As I understood it is possible 
by read-thru.

Thanks Gabriele. It was the reason. But to continue regarding status 
bar functions fired by read-thru. Than it is a problem just to kBox/image: 
 read-thru/progress myUrl :myProgr . It is possible just by using 
local file i.e. kBox/image: read-thru/to/progress myUrl %tmpImg.png 
:myProgr

BTW: How to insert newline in a post?

Click the "pen" icon just up to the input area (near color/ no color 
one)

Thanks!
I am getting following parameters of myProgr:
3650 8000
7430 8000
9950 8000
13730 8000
15335 8000
19115 8000
22975 8000
26755 8000
30695 8000
34475 8000
38255 8000
42195 8000
46055 8000
49835 8000
53695 8000
55197 8000
55197 8000


How then to calculate data for progress bar ( decimal from 0 to 1 
)?
Or how to get total bytes?

Janek. request-download has the example callback you need. View its 
source. here is a snippet. Where prog is the progressbar and stat 
is a label in your layout and stop is a value that controls that 
should be be set false outside of this func to start with, and can 
set to true via a cancel button to force a download to stop before 
completion. 
func [total bytes] [
        prog/data: bytes / (max 1 total) 
        stat/text: reform [bytes "bytes"] 
        show [prog stat] 
        not stop
    ]

Thanks Allen!
The problem was so obvious that I did not think about it ;-)

just it is impossible to know what size of image will be that is 
coming from a cgi process with many parameters.

A easy job for REBOL... http://www.eyon.com/. I can't believe this 
tool needs to be 4mb zipped.

i like this little function and cant find a good name.
your: func [offset value] [
	if value [value/:offset]
]
usage:
 your 'facet get-style 'field

its sometimes more readable IMHO than putting the interesting word 
far at the end of line.
but i find no good name.. any suggestions?

Help peoples..

I have the following..
  x: [a b c d]

  foreach y x [ set y make string! {} ] ;make them all empty strings.
then I process/append info into the different groups a,b,c,d.
Now, I want to write each string/list to a file of the same name.
i.e.
  foreach y x [write to-file join y ".txt" ??GETVALUE?? y]

Can someone clue me in on what I do at the ??GETVALUE?? position?

Thanks peoples.

foreach y x [print [y get y]]

... so the missing ??getvalue?? is just get

How does one open up the serial port?


I've tried open serial://port1/9600/8 and serial://port1/9600/8 and 
both give me errors ..

this is in windows

Volker, in english, it seems better to write
	'facet of face    (where OF is the function in between)
but we can't do that...
How about TAKE ? ie.
	take 'facet face    ; (read in english: "take 'facet from face")

Graham, try a different port, maybe it's port2 that is mapped in 
your system.

modem: open/lines/no-wait/direct serial://port2/9600/8/none/1  ; 
from an example on rebol-list 2003-12-03

I meant above that I also tried serial://com1/9600/8 ...

Well, I was just able to do this with no error:
>> port: open serial://port2/9600/8
>> close port

wonder what's wrong with mine.

I wonder if I have the serial printer attached as a windows printer 
and it's hogging the serial port.

Check whether it's enabled in device manager

the serial port currently has a serial printer attached

which is working.  I am trying to send some commands to the printer

are you trying to communicate with the printer ?

right ok.

yes

You need something to see the status of all ports on your system 
to diagnose, I think, but it looks like, if rebol can't open it, 
that windows already has opened a port to it.

yep, that was it.

I removed the serial printer from the windows printers and now I 
can open the port