World: r3wp

I think he means using the keys directly in the console, which correctly 
is limited in Linux.

Ah, of course! :P :)

Yes, I was referring to running REBOL Core or View in the Linux console. 
Sorry for the confusion. Thanks though, Geomol!

Unforunately form-decimal also has problems under wine.

Instead of "64.1" I get "64.100000000000E+00"

Perhaps you should tell the wind developers; that should not be hard 
for them to fix.

It's been reported ... people have suggested patches ...  no luck 
yet on ecvt.  fcvt got  a patch with 0.9.46 but afaik ecvt is still 
hurtin'

Graham, I modified one old form-decimal i had around to work with 
the wine bug; i just needed to test one of my old programs on wine, 
so it's not bullet proof, but it seems to work here. i will paste 
it to you, but you basically just need to parse the output of form 
and make it correct, it's easier than what it seems.

Thanks .. I'll give it a go.

Seems to work ... :)

I just happened to refine my form-money yesterday:

form-money: func [
	m
	/local r
][
	if money? m [m: m/2]
	r: (to-integer (absolute m) * 100 + 0.5) // 100
	rejoin [
		either negative? m ["-"] [""]
		absolute to-integer m
		","
		either r < 10 ["0"] [""]
		r
	]
]

It's geared towards Dutch money, with two decimal positions and a 
decimal comma, but that's easy to adapt

I've been using puppylinux recently.  I notice that from the desktop, 
if I click on console, nothing happens.  Also, if I do a print from 
an encapped application, no console appears.  Ideas?

If you start from a terminal session and use $ rebol    ( or whatever 
command)  and then hit the console, does the REBOL banner show up 
in the terminal?  That's where it should be.  No seperate "windows" 
console required for GNU/Linux.  If there is no banner, then puppylinux 
may be pooched.

maybe I should try starting from console rather then by gui

Yeah, try that, see what happens.  Then the real head scratching 
can start.  :)

I guess you mean the REBOL console? It doesn't work in the Linux 
version

Indeed you have to start Core, or start View with the -v option from 
the Linux console/shell

Oh .. okay.

I wonder if that's an encap option.

Also, I have found that under wine, my encapped application fails 
to launch another copy of itself.

Are the function keys available under Linux?

Normally yes.  But there are X11 configurations to worry about; try 
(from the REBOL console  - being your shell term)

con: open/binary/no-wait [scheme: 'console]   wait con   ch: copy 
con
and see what gets placed in ch

Some keys are being trapped by Gnome ... F1, F11, F10

So, on Ubuntu with Gnome, I'm getting for F3 #{1B1B4F52}

Using Vid, I get for F1 onwards, console, listen, tcp, udp, icmp, 
dns, odbc, oracle, msql, crypt, compress ...

What's going on here??

F12 is grabbed by the window manager in puppylinux, but otherwise 
the others are the same.

I presume Rebol is somehow interpreting these sequences like this.

Ahh.. it's a bug with Rebol 2.7.5

Ok, I was just about to say ... how are you getting the schemes list. 
  That looks weird, but I was going to suggest it must be opening 
the system/schemes object somehow.  I would be confused.  Not that 
that would be weird. :)

Ashley documents the bug on his Rebgui pages.

Wonder why RT hasn't released a fix yet.

Busyness?  :)   Afaik; a new release bundle is in the works.

Hmm.

Well, I found an older Linux SDK so i guess I can work with that.

Nope, mine is too old.  Anyone got the latest functional Linux 'enface 
prior to 2.7.5  ?

I'm using call and call/wait to invoke gs to convert ps files to 
pdf.  Anyone know why the return code can be non zero on linux and 
yet it is still doing the conversion??

I remember something about that... I think it was a "rebolism".

Does the same command return non zero in the linux console only ?

CALL has a bug in Linux (and other Unix), it just returns a random 
number...

crap.

I never knew that.

It returns 0 if used from the rebol console .. but other numbers 
if used from an encapped app.

Gabriele .. are these bugs ( and the lack of scalable font support 
in draw ) being addressed in 2.7.6 ?

That's a serious bug

Anyone know what I need to do to get view running on Ubuntu 7.10 
?  libstdc++.so.5 is missing.  And sym linking to ibstdc++.so.6.0.9 
doesn't work.

View 2.7.5.4.2 worked for me out of the box on a freshly installed 
Ubuntu 7.10

Encapped app complained.  Anyway, this is an answer I found http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopic.php?t=6125