World: r3wp

maybe you need to authenticate first before sending mail.

So, use rebol to read your mail first and then try sending.

since you're not getting a smtp authentication error.

Ok, I'll try that and get back with the results.

That fixed it. Thank you so much, Graham!

how does one avoid that variables listed in a block in an object 
become global in this instance:

>> unset [a b c]
>> y: make object! [a: [b c d] set a [1 2 3]]
>> a
** Script Error: a has no value
** Near: a
>> b
== 1
>> c
== 2
>> d
== 3

These give the same result:

>> y: make object! [a: [b c d] set bind a self [1 2 3]]
>> y: make object! [a: [b c d] set bind/copy a self [1 2 3]]
>> y: make object! [a: copy [b c d] set a [1 2 3]]
>> y: make object! [a: bind [b c d] self set a [1 2 3]]

hm... seem to be the old "how to add new variables to an existing 
object" problem. looks like I'll have to find a different approach...

do you know this one?

d: [a b c]
d: use d reduce [d]
set d [1 2 3]

I guess I do now :-)

suggested reading : http://www.fm.tul.cz/~ladislav/rebol/contexts.html
;-)

Anyone have some information on writing to usb ports ?

;To make the following work with a USB printer, do the following:

; 1. share the printer, noting the name given to the shared printer.

; 2. from the command line type: net use lpt1 \\laturk-ws-2\EPSONSty 
/persistent:yes

; 3. put said command line in autoexec.nt so you don't have to type 
it each time.

printer: func [
    "Sends text to printer on //prn."
    [catch]
    Text [string!]    "The text to be printed."
    /Page    "Append Carriage Return (CR) and Page Feed."
    ][
    throw-on-error [
        secure [
            %//prn [allow write]
        ]
        write %//prn Text
        if Page [write/binary %//prn "^(0D)^(page)"]
        Text
   ]
]

Graham, I don't know if that is what you had in mind or not.   I 
think I got the printer function from Andrew Martin.

and the instructions above it are from me :)

I was hoping that a direct way of writing to specified usb port migh 
now be avable.

:>)

You have taught me most of what I know.

If you would have taught me a direct way of writing to a USB port, 
then I would have been able to help you.  LOL.

Ok, next time I have to try harder.

Louis, that is a cool example

...or should I say Graham.

If I have a table of say 4 x 3 and another table of say 3 x 10 .. 
is there a way to merge them so I end up with a table of 7 x 10 where 
the missing cells are either empty or none?

By table, do you mean a block of blocks (a 2-dimensional array) ?
Given
	table-A: [[1 2 3 4][5 6 7 8]]
	table-B: [[a b c][d e f][g h i]]
then
	MERGE-TABLES table-A table-B
== [
        [1 2 3 4 a b c]
        [5 6 7 8 d e f]
        [none none none none g h i]
    ]
Is that the desired output ?

An approach I might use: pre-scan tables for row lengths, use ARRAY 
with the total row-length to create result-table , then poke the 
values of each table into the result-table.

Or something like:
	result-table: copy/deep table-A
	; <- scan for longest row

 ; <-- now extend result-table with values from table-B, creating/initializing 
 any missing/short rows first

Yes, like a sql join.

I was trying to print a table from two different sources, and trying 
to wrap the data inside the cells at the same time.  But I got it 
worked out now.  But was thinking that some type of sql join on tables 
would be good.

Yes, I just realised your question was two days before. :)

Is there some easy conversion of numbers to binary? And I mean numbers 
bigger than 255...

someone did binary tools,no? Wasn't it Geomol?

maybe. but I can't find anything on rebol.org

search altme, it was here ...

Binary tools group

thanks, I've found this http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?color=yes&script=base-convert.r
from Sunanda, I'll try it.

this is a way how to convert something to binary too: http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/peek_and_poke.r

will there be extended support for such binary conversions in R3?

in current Core, I find it difficult to work with what is available 
in terms of rebol .... I mean - for quick console hack sessions ....

but I am also not good in such topic, so it is maybe me, although 
I think that more ppl reqeusted such functionality in kernel ...

I'm 100% sure, there'll be such support in R3...in the long term... 
;)

:-)

maybe with plug-in mechanism, you can write external component to 
handle it, so good old poor pekr can include it and use it :-)

hehe :)

the pwerpack idea was a good one: one central point for crucial mezzanines 
and their documentation, perhaps as easily included as 
  do %powerpack.r 
  powerpack/install 'all
in user.r

c:\> cd rebol
c:\>rebol\
c:\>rebol\dir
rebol.exe
powerpack.r
c:\>rebol\rebol.exe %powerpack.r
c:\>rebol\dir
rebol.exe
powerpack.r
rebol3.0.exe

it works :-)

is there a complete list of all the error codes anywhere? I think 
the error appendix in the Core manual is not adequately describing 
them.

not sure, never saw something like that ...

it would make it a lot easier to create error handling, if you are 
running some code and might expect a large number of different errors 
that need to be translated into a different language

Have you probed system/error ?

yes, but I think it's hardly a useful way to do this. once again 
you have to dig around in the system object to figure something out.