World: r3wp

Not sure, but maybe they're trying to get a console handle, and can't.

Output handle rather.

does call /info refinement really work?  Shouldn't it return the 
PID number for the ID?

Ok, not going to affect anyone else except those of us in the New 
Zealand and neigbouring islands

>> rebol/version
== 2.7.6.3.1
>>  to-date "20/Mar/2008/10:16:56/++1300"
** Script Error: Invalid argument: 20/Mar/2008/10:16:56/++1300
** Where: to-date
** Near: to date! :value
>> to-date "20/Mar/2008/10:16:56/++1200"
== 20-Mar-2008/10:16:56+12:00

These were date strings being returned by an IMAP server in the rebelBB.cgi 
script.  And because parse-header-date barfed on this format, it 
kept returning today's date.

i put this on rambo a while ago (same reason, imap servers)

i worked around the problem in my imap parser. it's ugly though. 
i hope it gets fixed. :)

Should we ask Carl to fix this for 2.7.7 ??

http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/rambo.r?id=4302&

Graham I didn't know you were from New Zealand.  I always say to 
myself if this country (US) goes to crap (and it might if any of 
these democrats get elected) then I'm heading to New Zealand.  I 
don't know why I say that as I know very little about New Zealand? 
lol.

Yep, born and bred in NZ :)

Cool, then when the ?#!* hits the fan here in the US - you can be 
my tour guide.

:-)

I don't think we're immune from recession, but we do less trading 
these days with the USA and more with Asian countries

Not a problem.  Just here the country is out of wack.  Justices are 
now making laws.

How exactly does call/shell differ from just call on windows?

My guess: it calls via the shell (cmd under e.g. WinXP) instead of 
a directly Windows call.

Were you allowed to do like this in previous versions of Rebol?

bl: ["block"]
print switch type?/word bl [ block! bl object! ["object"] ]

Now it seems like you have to write something like:

print switch type?/word bl [ block! [get 'bl] object! ["object"] 
]

There's a page on differences between 2.6 and 2.5

http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/upnews.r?view=0008

Is anyone else having this occur:

When ever I start a script now I get an empty "public" folder created 
in that directory.

Confirmed for 2.7.6.3.1 on Win XP.

REBOL's installer hasn't worked at all since the 2.7 series, and 
it never worked correctly before that, though the 1.3 series improved 
directory usage. Fixing the installer is on the list for the next 
version.

By next version, I mean next version in the 2.7 series.

That is why the public folder is getting put all over the place instead 
of in the REBOL home folder where it belongs.

It seems running with -s does not create the public dir from my tests. 
 I thought  -i or -v would be the magic switches, but it's -s   ??? 
  Too bad, as -s is also the danger danger switch.

Oh, +s seems to fix it as well.  Better.

Little bit more playing around, to see if +s was taking ... doesn't 
seem so.
rebol []
probe system/script
change-dir %..
list-dir
ask "waiting"

c:\tools\rebol\appdata\rebview +s testing.r

...
    words: none
]
waiting

** Script Error: list-dir expected dir argument of type: file url 
unset
** Near: list-dir
ask "waiting"
>>

The ask is evaluated before the list-dir error     And if  list-dir 
%.  is used, it lists the dir, without a security box.

That's natural. list-dir expects an argument.

just the same as:
	1 + print "hello"

There seems to be a difference in CALL/SHELL (at least under Windows). 
Earlier versions open a shell window, the latest doesn't. I can see 
it, when I run my OpenGL stuff.

It's been discussed before in this thread, I see.

Try the /show refinement.

Thanks!

Did the r2-beta world go down? I can't reach it.

nor I from yesteday

it's been going down every day. i have restarted it twice, but there 
seems to be something wrong with it, so i'll be waiting for carl 
to be back and have a look at it (since i have no idea how altserve 
works :)

down again

disk full?

why would it only affect one world?

not a disk problem, this is on www.rebol.net.

i really think Carl should look into it. i don't like the idea of 
just restarting it without knowing what's wrong with it.

Has anyone tried Cyphre's my-http.r on REBOL/View 2.7.6?

I get an error here:

>> read http://www.rebol.net
** Script Error: querying has no value
** Where: halt-view
** Near: http-command: either querying ["HEAD"] ["GET"]

Rebolers, again I reach out to you for some info and advice. I'm 
creating a DB in Access 2003 for a company (This is what they use 
so I'm stuck here) and I'd rather create a set of tools (for some 
work but not all, the majority of the tasks will be strictly access) 
that has Rebol talking to it rather than having to doing it in VB. 
I was under the impression that 2.7 had odbc built in, but alas it 
doesn't seem to. Am I stuck with having to get  /Command?

Not sure it was freed. Maybe we talked about it, but I don't remember 
Carl's opinion on that. What was freed though was DLL wrapper interface, 
but I am not sure there is an ODBC wrapper via DLL for REBOL ...

Thanks Pekr. All that wrapper stuff is beyond me. It sound like VB 
school for James_Nak. : (

DocKimbel was working on one, but I think it's old and unfinished.

Thanks. That must also mean it is pretty hard to do.

In the old days of  pre-Command  or  View/beta I wrote an ODBC-Wrapper.