World: r3wp

I only need to fill out a PDF form and don't trust these online editors 
as to what they are doing with the information.

I seem to remember using something like this in OpenOffice.

I'll look into that.  Was hoping for something a bit more petite.

I did a google search, but it seems that most products charge for 
that function. However, most charge 10 to 20 dollars. Try searching 
sourceforge for "PDF".

Yeah I did and finally did get a product but most couldn't do the 
job.  But it turns out this didn't contain forms so I had to overlay 
text on it..

Foxit Reader is nice free alternative to Adobe Reader, but dunno 
if it allows editing - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Look around at portals like: http://www.planetpdf.com, http://www.pdfstore.com
, http://www.pdfzone.com

Acrobat reader can fill in a pdf form.

Thanks Pekr.  Graham, I think the problem was that I figured out 
this PDF form didn't really have FIELDS to fill in.

A happy, peaceful and prosperous new year to one and all.

Thak you Peter. I hope the same for you, your family and everyone 
who reads this message.

Happy new year to everyone one too!

Plus a happy last month of the lunar ("chinese") year for those to 
whom that is the important time marker.

REBOL lives to fight another year. I'm glad to have known you all 
for another orbit. Let's hope for more happiness all around.

Why would we even think to have hope for more happiness because it 
is a new year? One man's happiness may be another man's terror.

Just being realistic about it that is all.  Not meaning to tread 
on your wishes Gregg,

One man's happiness may be another man's terror.

 -- Then let us hope for, and work towards, the elimination of things 
 that cause this disparity.

Better said Gregg.

Wevoften wish people a good morning each morning we see them. Why 
not offer them a longer term good wish too?

Nothing wrong with that.

My host provider no longer support REBOL. So looks like I'm going 
to be changing my host provider

Time for one of the VPS hosts like slicehost or linode?

For several years I've been using REBOL for CGI on sites hosted at 
Lunarpages.  I never asked before trying it, but they've never given 
me any troubles about it.  They have shut down several PERL scripts 
that were in use on the same servers, and they've also emailed me 
about folders with names that they considered potentially suspicious, 
so they are paying attention...

Yeah I ran REBOL in the past with this host which needed to ENABLE 
something before so I thought if I just replaced the binary with 
a new one with same name it would be no problem but it didn't work. 
 So I'm out of luck with them.  I get money back prorated so I'm 
going to switch providers.

Well we put the older version back and REBOL works again.  Does anyone 
else have the linuxx86 2.7.6 working on a server via cgi?

2.62 works but 2.7.6 doesn't work.  Same permissions on file and 
same locations but wouldn't work.

I noticed that I couldn't uncompress the 2.7.6 via the cpanel extract 
function either so i extracted it via my windows box using 3rd party 
tool and uploaded it but it still failed.

Try with 2.7.5 please, want to know if this is a new bug.

I'll check it out but really need the functions in 2.7.6 otherwise 
it does me no good.

I was using the sources at www.rebol.com downloads page.  I'm going 
to try the 2.7.6 from the builds directory.

Yep that one worked.

The one on the rebol.com download page doesn't work.

Excellent that one is now calling Tretbase via CGI and updaing the 
database with the form inputs.

The main download of 2.7.6 core (Libc6, Debian) works fine for me. 
  I've never been able to get any version of View working on Lunarpages 
servers (tried every command line switch listed by "usage") - assume 
it has do with them not having windowing components installed on 
their hosting machines.  BTW, rebpro from sdk-2706042 also works 
(without a key).

That is interesting Nick, I'll keep that in mind should I want to 
utilize some of those features.

not being able to run view on headless servers is why I stick with 
core. around where I am when a machine is large enough to be interesting 
it typicaly is shut up in some climate controled room with a lock 
one the door.

Proof that Joe Marshall did not understand REBOL at all: http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-June/018753.html

ouch

I like this sentence:   "and it saves the user a lot of work in learning 
your language (*if* he already knows lisp, that is)."

Well Max; it's kinda why I keep asking for junk! data.  REBOL requires 
mere-mortals to understand REBOL datatype! to take full effect of 
the language.  Until REBOL can LOAD "$10,000,000.00"  I'm going to 
gripe every so often.  ;)

Oh, and it doesn't have to load as money!   just not trip on Syntax 
Error: Invalid money -- $10,000,000.00

So close ...  it even knew I was aiming for money!

:)

but brian, you have as much time as you want to get that  $10M  :-)

>> more-time: make time! 10000000
== 2777:46:40

and you know what they say....

time is money   ;-)

lol

Brian: on that one, I'll never understand why you guys don't simply 
use string parsing. REBOL cannot just be able to understand anything.

Isn't Brian saying that he wants a junk! datatype to catch unrecognised 
data instead of R throwing an error?

right, and 1) that can't work 2) you can parse as string, use load/next, 
and use your own parsing when load/next fails.

when you start doing 2) you'll see why it can't be done in a *general* 
way and thus 1)

ie. it needs to be a parser designed for your specific application 
- it's a user interface thing, not a language thing.

if your users don't know rebol, then don't use a dialect as the user 
interface.