World: r3wp

Ahh... okay, I opened up with the old Altme.

I guess I now have two installations :(

Yes, what is the advice on that ? The beta download page:
http://www.altme.com/beta.html
advises:

# Both your AltME world server and clients need to be updated.
They 
both must be running the newer code. If you only use the newer client, 
but not a newer world server, you will see very few changes.

So is safeworlds running a new beta server for the beta clients to 
test with ?

Is there a list of changes coming up?

anton, I made a little test world to play with, if you are curious 
to see the file sharing working

Thanks Henrik, but not right at the moment.

I restarted rebol-world for this purpose, but can't connect to it!

graham, your own server on your own machine?

Oopps .. I lie.

It's up and running now.

though every ****** thing is red!

henrik, you seem to have an account there too!

I do?

henrikmk

It's the world I used to maintain continuity between reboln crashes

I see, logging in now :-)

I see Altme has an open folder icon, and this uses a system call 
to open up the local folder.  I can see the dos box open up temporarily.

One thing that always annoys me about AltME is the connect/disconnect 
handling.

Everytime I get disconnected from the internet (which happens several 
times a day), I drop out of the group that I am reading, and have 
to acknowledge that I read the message that I AltME "isn't able to 
connect at the moment". Of course, when I go back to the group I 
was reading, the markers for new messages have already been cleared.

Same when I try to reconnect "Do _really_ want to reconnect to rebol3????" 
Of course not, what do you think why I clicked there? And then I 
drop out of the group ...

Is that not fixed in the new beta ?

no

at least not with 1.1.24 on windows

mmm.. ok. Well, yes, here's our chance to improve this aspect of 
altme.

I'm getting a lot of  "invalid data type during recycle" messages 
in the new Altme.  I got them like 4 times in a row when trying to 
click on the !Altme world and then decided to click another world 
and then come back into this one and was finally able to.

But that is what beta's are all about.

the sync bug is also still there

yes, of course it is, it was never solved ...

Funny thing,

my internet connection is practically dead, no email, no webserving, 
but AltME still works ...

ingo, yeah it's pretty cool that way. I could even connect, when 
ping didn't work!

has anybody been able to use the file transfer ? I tried to send 
jean-Francois  show.r but did not work ?

you need to create a new work to work with filetransfers

work = world

Paul: this altme still uses a 1.2.10 REBOL, so that crash is still 
there.  The OSX has 1.3.2, which means that a 1.3.2 for Win32 is 
not far behind.

A linux build is still planned for soon (but there is a reason I 
did not captialize the L in linux in this sentence - it's on my bad 
list this week)..

Offf-topic but does anyone know what the file size limit is on shared 
files?

3MB

Once it moves to 1.3.2 it will be unlimited (because seek mode is 
supported)

Thanks Carl.

Wow. I better not tell my programming staff..they use .net  and everything 
is huge!

hmm, so current bet Windows we use uses still 1.2.10 internally?

what's the rule for syncing?

does everything sync?

graham: don't sync while drunk

nps .. never been drunk in my life.

me neither, strange coincidence

lol lol

That cheered me up from my Linux blues.

And Pekr, yes still on 1.2 but not for long!

(It is matter of stability testing, always advancing in increments 
to reduce multivariate bugs)

only files you look at sync?