World: r3wp

read/as ftp://ftp.rebol.com/matrix.avi[ file: %movies/matrix.avi 
]

and to resume


read/ask/seek ftp://ftp.rebol.com/matrix.avi[ file: %movies/matrix.avi 
 ] current-file-size-of-matrix.avi

hmm, but /as was proposed to specify just type of encoding IIRC, 
not some other functionality ... some of us wanted /as being more 
general, allowing you to specify a codec to decode. Codecs are so 
far inefficient (not streamed), because you have to read all data 
firts, then pass it to encode/decode.

Carl never posted a resolution to read/write case ....

Need some way to pass parameters to scheme actors.  Andreas is using 
read/lines !

I think my schemes are making R3 unstable.  Tried to post a message 
and got from chat


rebol system error #1301: invalid datatype 99 ... should never happen 
...

Well, we don't need of specific refinements, cause we can pass a 
block to read (which is converted to a port!).

>> read [scheme: 'ftp host: ... path:... other_data: ....]


The  block format could be used to pass other parameters in a more 
handy way.


>> read [ftp://ftp.rebol.com/matrix.avifile: %movies/matrix.avi]


And the good news, is that it's absolulty possible to have something 
like that now.
We just have to patch the function: system/intrinsic/make-port

Steeve - it is good we have you here :-)

btw - some time ago someone stated here, that current https scheme 
is done "old school". Was that you? Isn't now the right time to define 
the better way (if any) to aproach schemes and networking? :-)

Well, I am using a write spec block ...

sorry again (it's true i said this)

easy to talk hard to do

Steeve .. don't waste your time on a r2 chat .. there's no traffic 
on there.  Spend your time on schemes :)

We need a place to set a system timeout ...

To my mind, we need a better framework to design shames using a FSM 
dialect

shames=schemes

Like uniserve?

;-)

uniserve has some good ideas

Or do you mean use a dialect to define the scheme?

yes a dialect to construct schemes

meta programming

Rebol is especially good with those things

someone did FSM in the past. Gregg? Henrik?

Gregg

One from gabriele - http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/Misc/qml/fsm.rlp

Ladislav has done one too. Time for a FSM battle?

I suspect that you have to write a few schemes to see what is needed 
and then write the scheme dialect

yup we should start with the html one in R3, it's a huge one currently

Here's related ML discussion - http://www.rebol.org/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlFDMJ

http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/functions/write.html


says there is a /binary refinement .. but this doesn't exist any 
more

Graham, I'd do what you want with:

pipe ftp://somehost/somefile%/path/to/somefile

my implementation of PIPE is only a few lines. i think it should 
be native to R3.

my lower level is working like this

write port [ RETR "bigfile" %bigfile ]

how does switch on type? work?

switch type? %test.r [ .... ]

what do I need to write in the block to catch it ?

Gab, you should pipe up with the source to pipe :)

Graham:
>> switch type?/word 1 [integer! [print "ahoj"]]
== ahoj

Graham, weird, but you can try:

>> switch to-word type? %test.r [file! [print "... a file"]]
... a file

so return of 'type? is not a type? Well, we have not a datatype type? 
Yes, we have - datatype! .... but help reveals you can't do "to-datatype" 
...

Also this works:

>> switch type? 1 reduce [integer! [print "ahoj"]]
== 
ahoj

type?/word is here for that

Pekr, return of type? is datatype!! but the datatype in the switch 
block is just word!, not datatype! .

So you need word! from type! or reduce the seitch block to get datatype! 
instead of word! .

why is datatype a word? :-)

Hmm, you are right:

>> type? file!
== datatype!

>> type? first [file!]
== word!

because the block is not evaulated

>> type? first reduce [word!]

== datatype!

It may look confusing, but it makes perfect sense, it same as:

>> a: 1                 

== 1


>> type? first [a]       

== word!

>> type? first reduce [a]
== integer!

Graham: Binary is the default for read & write in R3. The documentation 
doesn't seem to have been fully updated for R3 yet,

Rebolek - then switch should be supplied a reduced block :-)