World: r3wp

Okay, that may do what I need it to. REBOL does some interesting 
things which I haven't quite figured out when I do something like 
CTRL + Z, bg, etc.

Let me take a look at dtach.

I also use

./cheyenne &

in a shell script

Might be an implementation issue for me then. Would the & trick work 
with a non-compiled REBOL script in the same way?

dtach seems to be working well for me. I might stick with it.

Barik: you may just need to redirect stdin and stdout, eg.  ./script.r 
>/dev/null </dev/null &

Bolek: REBOL is not going to start a terminal program for you. However, 
if you have a icon, you can usually open the icon properties and 
tell the "desktop" (XFCE in your case) to start the program inside 
a terminal (ie. it will start a terminal and then the program inside 
it).

If I run a simple REBOL script (with just a forever loop), I notice 
that "ps -a" gives me two REBOL processes in the process list. Why 
is this?

one is for DNS lookups.

Is this documented somewhere? If so, I haven't seen information on 
it.

Ah, I found it's been asked before in the AltMe archives though. 
:-)

The question has been asked a few times recently. I had not noticed 
this before until Carl talked about how R3 doesn't need an extra 
process for DNS.

Doc, do you have your binary running on your new server yet? Did 
you try installing the Ubuntu libstdc++5 package?

I've tried that but it doesn't work, it requires to downgrade several 
other key packages like gcc-base, messing up the whole system. Anyway, 
it's no more an issue to me now, I've droppped View completely in 
all my webapps replacing with third-parties libs or services (like 
ReCaptcha).

That's very odd. It should just install as a compatibility library. 
Did you really try the Ubuntu package, or just the Debian one?

Just the Debian one.

Linux View 2.7.7:


>> view layout [box snow effect [draw [fill-pen black pen none shape 
[move 0x6 'line 6x6 'line 0x-12]]]]
Segmentation fault

same test works correctly with 2.7.6

RAMBO

I want to make sure it's not just my setup/distro. Is it working 
for anyone?

I tried to download the LIbc6 View 2.7.7 from the main download page 
to check. The file name is http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v277/rebol-view-277-4-2.tar.gz
but it contained this :
REBOL/View 2.7.6.4.2 15-Mar-2008
Copyright 2000-2008 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

Carl should be notified on R3 chat about that.

What's wrong?

wrong View version packaged.

I thought it might have been done in response to the error Gabriele 
posted.

I post a message to Carl on R3 when I'm back at the Linux machine.

Hi Gabriele, thats working for me. No segmentation fault. Open a 
window, with a white box and a blak triangle. Kubuntu 9.10, Rebol 
View 2.7.7.4.3

blak --> black

Manu, thanks, so it's probably not a "simple" bug.

(I must say though that I'm using the 4.2 version here, as the 4.3 
did not work. Maybe the 4.2 only has the bug?)

REBOL/View 2.7.7.4.2 6-Jan-2010
Copyright 2000-2010 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

REBOL/View 2.7.7.4.3 5-Jan-2010
Copyright 2000-2010 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

That's funny, 5-Jan-2010 --> 2.7.7.4.3, 6-Jan-2010 --> 2.7.7.4.2

Why funny? the third number means OS and the fifth some OS subtype.

Sorry, I was thinking the fourth and fifth number were subrelease 
number

Some Plug-computer experience: I use one as the replacement for DroboShare 
(which is crap and damn slow). So I have set it up to be my file-server 
where a Drobo Storage Array is attached too. All conected via Giga-Ethernet, 
using AFP and Bonjoure.

DroboShare speed was between 5-10 MB/s. Now I have 30MB/s for read 
& write over the network. So this thing flies!

How long did it take to arrive?

And what version of rebol can you run on it?

I ordered mine in UK. 3-4 days.

Rebol: It's ARM based... so not yet. But waiting to get R3 running 
on it. It's running Linux so porting should be pretty straight forward.

There is an version of rebol that runs on Arm.

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything.

Oh boy, didn't mean to do that. Looks like AltME in VMWare on CentOS 
had some initial weirdness as well. Sorry about that!

If you click on the send button N times, it will submit the message 
N times. Not a great feature.

Yeah, I hit enter and nothing happened, so I thought it was stuck. 
Looks like it was just busy doing something in the background and 
queueing up my enters.