World: r3wp

Geomol, the book probably needs a good rewrite or rethinking. Only 
a few sections are still usable.

I'm trying to get a list of all the arguments to get-modes. But, 
right now, the online dictionary is broken for that function:
http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wget-modes.html
Can anyone help?
(Meanwhile, I'll rambo the problem)

Math question.  Aside from a routine! or Rebcode is there existing 
code to do 32bit by 32bit multiply in REBOL which evaluates to be 
equivalent to C code a * b;  with no overflow throw?

c-multiply: func [a [integer!] b [integer!]] [first (1x0 * a) * (1x0 
* b)]

I thought I had a list somewhere, but can't find it. You probably 
already have all these.

files:
	file-modes
	copy-modes
net ports:
	network-modes
	interfaces
ports:
	port-modes

Ladislav;  Thank you sir.

Thanks Gregg -- I was looking for the definite list of file modes: 
world-write etc.
A bit of extra Googling got me to here:
http://www.rebol.com/docs/core25.html#sect1.1.

It would have been easier with some SEO on the .com and .net sites.

Like this?
>> print mold get-modes %Fonts.r 'file-modes

[status-change-date modification-date access-date owner-name group-name 
owner-id group-id owner-read owner-write owner-execute group-read 
group-write group-execute world-read world-write world-execute set-user-id 
set-group-id full-path]
>> print mold get-modes %Fonts.r 'world-write
false

Thanks Izkata.

The difficulty there is that it returns only the modes availlable 
on your platform.
I needed all the possible modes for cross-platform coding/

guys, do you have recursive directory read function? Simply put - 
what I need for our kiosk is:

 - script running in the background, window-less
- script checks for new drive to appear periodically
- then it reads specific directory, e.g. %/e/kiosk-update

- then it reads files, and stores them to target dir, not carring 
about adding new dir/file, simply overwriting it

It is kind of one-sided sync :-)

I can't find anything usefull on rebol.org ....

Here's some code that traverses an entire dircetory tree:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlTQBC

what in the following code would cause cannot insert on port error?

updatedir: func [current-dir basedir /local contents base-contents 
item base-item item-info base-item-info][

 unless exists? current-dir [return] ;returns if source is not present 
 - eg someone removes a cd
	contents: read current-dir

 unless exists? basedir [make-dir basedir while [not exists? basedir][wait 
 0]]
	base-contents: read basedir
	foreach item contents [
		base-item: find base-contents item
		either dir? item [
			updatedir join current-dir item join basedir item
		][
			either none? base-item [

    write/binary join basedir item read/binary join current-dir item
			][
				item-info: info? join current-dir item
				base-item-info: info? join basedir base-item
				if item-info/date > base-item-info/date [

     write/binary join basedir item read/binary join current-dir item
				]
			]
		]
	]
]
updatedir %sourcedir/ %destdir/

when run repeatedly (if i trap the error) it completes successfully.. 
is there a 1 write at a time rule in rebol?

but apart from the error - is that the sort of thing you were looking 
for Petr?

Icarii - yes, that might help ....

oh my, how usefull is read %/, if you can't use it further dynamically?

== [%c/ %d/ %e/ %g/]


it is missing one backslash. You simply can't  do thing like foreach 
drive drives [print exists? join drive "kiosk/"]

it has to be a bug, because it is not logical - it is a result of 
'read operation, yet if you query the result, e.g. exists? %c/ you 
get 'false result. That is not imo correct.

that only probably happens under windows where the filesystem is 
so screwy

:-)

petr, no, that is not a bug.

>> read %public/www.rebol.com/
== [%index.r %docs/ %bay.jpg %view/ %downloads/]

do you see %public/www.rebol.com/   in the block?

so what you do is, for any dir,

foreach file read dir [do-something-with dir/:file]

>> print-dir: func [dir] [foreach file read dir [print dir/:file]]
>> print-dir %public/www.rebol.com/
public/www.rebol.com/index.r
public/www.rebol.com/docs/
public/www.rebol.com/bay.jpg
public/www.rebol.com/view/
public/www.rebol.com/downloads/
>> print-dir %/
/c/
/d/
/e/
/f/
/g/
/h/
/z/

Petr, my file-list stuff should be on REBOL.org.

gabriele - how does it relate to my report?

I strictly refuse following result:

>> exists? %rebol.exe
== true
>> exists? %c/
== false

both queried items are result of regular 'read function call on filesystem 
...

>> change-dir %/
== %/
>> exists? %c/
== true

still does not explain my results

what is first slash representing? It is a root-dir? Then it might 
make sense. Or is it just a syntax?

Yes, filesystem root.

then your example stands for something like following?

>> exists? join %/ %c/
== true

Yep.

so that %c/, even if being a drive assigned letter, is being treated 
as a directory here ....

hmm, ok, I will remember it, but it might confuse some ppl ....

Yes.  I think this is Rebol's way of handling Windows unique drive 
system.

Sunanda - here is one fine doc about all possible modes - http://rebol.com/docs/changes.html#section-6.2

somehow can't set-modes for directory :-)

is there a bug or what? Can copy-modes be set for directory too?

>> modes: get-modes %sqlite/ get-modes %sqlite/ 'copy-modes

== [creation-date: 2-Jul-2007/10:20:05+2:00 access-date: 2-Jul-2007/10:20:07+2:00 
modification-date: 2-Jul-2007/
10:20:07+2:00 owner...

>> set-modes %sqlite/ modes
** Access Error: Cannot open /c/!rebol/view/sqlite/
** Near: set-modes %sqlite/ modes


I simply wanted also my copied directories, not only files, to carry 
on original attributes ....

Pekr, 
>>exists %/c/
= true

... even when not in the root directory.

>> exists? %/c/
== true
>> what-dir
== %/C/Program Files/rebol/view/
>>

Petr, I'm not sure what you want. Obviously %c/ is a dir, and obviously 
it is at the root, so you have to access it as %/c/. This is called 
platform independent file paths. It's the same for all platforms.

Brock, I was confused about reading %/ and getting %c/ instead of 
%/c/, that is all. I did not regarded %/ a root, I thought it is 
just a helper, as %. is .... that dot surely is not real part of 
filesystem, is it?

I resolved it for myself by defining root: %/ and joining it with 
the result of the read, works .... new problem for me is how to set 
attributes of copied directory. Not sure why do I receive error. 
It seems like that dir would be locked or so, but not sure why set-modes 
fail. Is set-modes supposed to work with directories?

no

I reported this a couple of years ago .. it does not work