World: r3wp

Resyncs sometimes happen in a group if you are connected at the moment 
someone posts a message to it.

That may explain some random resyncs. though not all.....So simply 
staying connected for a long while may be beneficial.

....typically, in that instance you'll get a private message from 
someone which uncovers their previous few messages to you that you've 
never seen; --  and they've perhaps assumed you've been ignoring 
them.

Good to know.

Hey I see these messages!  Smiley...And here I was trying to get 
into REBOL3 so I could lurk.   Reichart.  I've tried the Linux (on 
Debian 3.1 r0) and WinXP, and I get nothing in terms of old messages. 
 Until I just read you, Henrik and Graham talking I thought it may 
have been design intent.  I plan on looking into/trying things further 
now.

Currently I see messages in !Channels.  Ryan was posting just as 
I logged in first time with XP/

And in I'm new, but I posted...saw nothing...logged out and came 
back 3 hours later

All other groups are 'empty' but I know there are posts going on 
from looking at http://www.rebol.net/altweb/rebol3/

I'm about to try the uninstall/resync trick on the WinXP side

Cool.

My other belief is that there is a very sublet interaction between 
the latency.

Reinstalled, allowed a resync, came back...no mesages.

btiffin, try adjusting the number of stored messages

That is  agood point Henrik, I set mine to 100 by default.

I like things fast.

I was more thinking that adjusting it upward would force AltME to 
read back on X number of messages

reichart, how far back do you store on the server?

All.

It should ALL be there.

I do see the I'm New group now.  I did try a number adjust before 
the reinstall went from the default 100 to 1000 to 1 to 100 to 10000 
to 100.  Nothing.

So far all I get is I'm new

I'm about to try the . trick on the Make-doc group

And I now see Make-doc

Long ago there was a guest account.
From a security viewpoint, getting rid of it was a good thing.

But it was a way to force a resync: log on as guest then again as 
yourself and (in my experience) you always gor properly resynced.

Perhaps there is a case to have a resync account with password given 
out only to those who need it.

Alternatively. some people could have two accounts, and use the spare 
for syncing only.

.

I vote we fix this damn bug : )

sync test

I'll vote for that too.  Still smilin'

Linux sync test

sync bug: I had a problem when I used a slow (and less reliable) 
connection. When the connection is fast and reliable, the problem 
is not showing itself in my opinion.

Can someone recall me what function to call or where should I indicate 
a new download default directory of the console.  By default, it 
seems set to C:/Documents and Settings/AdminHome/Application Data/Rebol/public. 
 I would like to change that.  Thanks.

That's the View cache directory (or sandbox if you prefer), which 
gets set by the installer. Although stuff is downloaded to it it 
is more like the Windows application data directory for REBOL, a 
place for (perhaps untrustworthy) scripts to put their stuff. It's 
not really a default download directory as such.


If you want to change it, the easiest way (for a newbie) is to uninstall 
REBOL, move the entire View directory (not the public subdirectory) 
where you want it to be, and reinstall REBOL, specifying the new 
location. If you are more ambitious, the View root directory is stored 
in the registry and can be changed from there. You can't move the 
public subdirectory seperately from the entire View directory though.


Keep in mind that the View root directory is under Application Data 
for good reasons, particularly to make it easier for multiple users 
on the same computer to use REBOL. It's the standard way to do this 
on Windows, and a good idea overall. 


I tend to leave the View root in appdata where it belongs and then 
set a junction point (sort of like a symbolic link for directories 
on NTFS) in some more friendly location so I can get to the data 
easier. I use the axwLink shell extension for this, which you can 
get here: http://arniworld.de/downloads.htm

Thanks.

you can also use --reinstall or +i to force view to reinstall. of 
course you still need to move the files manually as brian described.

That looks like useful stuff, Brian.

Normand, are you referring to downloads from the script library?

Good question, because the rebol.org script library will need some 
modification to path-thru to handle the url's with the '?' character 
in it. Normand, maybe you just want to change the VIEW-ROOT path 
within rebol. If is used by PATH-THRU, If you care to have a quick 
look at the source. And path-thru is used by exists-thru?, read-thru, 
load-thru... all the functions dealing with the public cache.

I read about 40 platforms, can anyone axplain me how use rebol under 
win mobile?

can't do that yet

that's one of the unsupported platforms :-)

what about another mobile platforms?

I'm not really sure that any mobile platforms are supported yet. 
This has something to do with the memory handling of Rebol. I think 
PocketPC is in the works as it's been wanted for some time now.

what a pity

RT looked at the number of downloads for Windows CE and decided that 
there was no interest .. AFAIK

Yeah, they ported /Core 2.50 to WinCE on StrongARM at my request, 
but apparently I and my clients were the only ones interested. You 
can run this build on Windows Mobile but since this was for a Handheld 
PC it doesn't adjust its window to an onscreen keyboard, making it 
significantly less useful on the Pocket PC platform.

Plus the user interface loks a little off because it is written for 
an older version of WinCE, and the title bar didn't match the standard 
layout even then.

I haven't tried it on the smartphone layout, but I would be shocked 
if it worked. :)

I will definitely request again when REBOL has Unicode support, probably 
with REBOL 3.

We wanted to use it too Brian, but it wasn't up to what we asked 
of it (View being important).

it is overall interesting issue - to get rebol running on various 
platforms in a way so it adheres to particular platform habits .... 
OS-X, WinCE being reported as Rebol feeling kind of hostile there 
...

it probably amounts to have rebol being more flexible with the types 
of windows and interfaces it can make... currently, just being able 
to create one type of windows isn't enough for more and more platforms.