AltME groups: search

but there is a command line version as well

that's probably just a command-line wrapper around the dll ...  where 
to get this command line version ?

should be as easy as building a command line

Winmm.dll is the MCI interface in Windows. With that interface you 
can control many multimedia stuff (wave form playing, video playing, 
recording...)

It has two interface : C++ level and string command. The last one 
sounds easy to interface with view/pro. But, eh, I never played with 
DLL interfacing in rebol.
So I let that to "make routine!" guru ;-)

Thor, I don't think it's difficult to uninstall. Just look in the 
filesystem where the altme.exe is, and see if there are any files 
there. You could just  delete those (or move them away somewhere 
safe). I just looked in the registry and found the -u switch for 
uninstallation, so  altme.exe -u   is the command line.

eFish, you can start multiple worlds automatically by placing a shortcut 
in your startup folder for each instance you want to automatically 
start, using a command like the following...
C:\Program Files\AltMe\altme.exe
 -s "<Worldname>" -p <portnumber>

When I execute this command...

print second split-path to-file to-string http://www.cpcpension.com/files/2002EN AR fin
al.pdf
it returns.... 2002 EN AR final.pdf
it converted the  's in the URL

when I execute this command...
print second split-path to-file to-string read clipboard://
where I have copied the URL above into the clipboard://
it returns.... 2002 EN AR final.pdf

i use rebol/command to connect a database (Iseries) by ODBC..

how can i have metadata of my resultset with rebol.command

Hi Claude, 
do you want to get the names of the columns?

You do not get them by default.

If you want just the names of the columns of a table, you should 
do like this
insert stm ['columns "filexxx"]
foreach column copy stm [probe column]

look at 
sdk/doc/database.html#section-4.2


But beware, Rebol/Command does not support all datatypes, so maybe 
you will get some problems.

Also depending how strict/relaxed your db system is "filexxx" should 
be written "FILEXXX" or as a fully qualified name.
So better check with 
insert stm ['tables] 
what your db system expects.


If you write a program, it is recommended, to name every column you 
want to get in your result set. Then you know the names too .

If you can issue a DOS command (REBOL/Command or some betas with 
Call enabled), try this:
    echo ^l > prn
(That's a ctrl+L character, not a caret then L)
That should force a form feed

Henrik: yes. Command has grafx capabilities without VID and without 
requiring X. So you can typically save/png etc.

They should add that and we should have a command like the one you 
gave as a mezz function

A lot of people will appreciate this Brett.  I haven't looked at 
the code yet, but just read the docs.  Do you want to add support 
for the "CAPA" command ?

I only needed to know about it as some mail clients would query Cerebrus 
with the "CAPA" command and I had to know how to respond.

In Command:
>> help run
USAGE:
    RUN file /as suffix
DESCRIPTION:
     Runs the system application associated with a file.
     RUN is a native value.
ARGUMENTS:

     file -- The file to open (file, URL) or command to run (string). 
     (Type: file url string)
REFINEMENTS:
     /as
         suffix -- (Type: string file)

The UNIX cd command (a one-liner) in REBOL:

The word browser is nice, but I spend most of my time in the console. 
 How about a man command that looks up the manual pages on the net, 
and dumps them to the console?

<<How about a man command that looks up the manual pages on the net, 
and dumps them to the console?>>

It wouldn't be that hard to adapt the existing code for other purposes 
too.

Like, it'd be good  if someone extended it to emit MakeDoc codes. 
Those files could then go straight up on the web -- instant searchable 
ocumentation.

I get the impression that Carl would be happy for people to volunteer 
to extend the project.

I asked Anton directly but some of you may know a work-around. I'm 
using his scroll-table style but when I call a face using it within 
a reblet it does not "do" it. It works from the command line with 
a "view face" but not within. Is there something akin to "reduce" 
which would, for lack of a better phrase, force a face to recompute 
itself entirely? I tried "show" and "focus."

Hello, I have an app that calls another app with a "do %..." The 
problem is that when I want to exit from the first app after closing 
the second, I am left at a command line as if I called the app from. 
Any one know how to do a double exit?

the first command could also be a more simple:
x: stylize [a: field]

but - I would definitely vote for =include command - both for code 
and another text file, so you would be able to construct more complex 
docs from smaller parts ....

OK, thanks. Didn't know this. But this solution will work for me 
as well. In a sense this is interesting, as skip isn't a real token, 
but a command - but it's treated as a token. :-)

If you loading your data like you do when you type it on the interpreter 
command line, carets are treated as escape characters. If you are 
getting it from the read command, they aren't.

Ok, I am testing on the command line.  May be that is the problem.

Does the same command return non zero in the linux console only ?

If you know what the target file is, then you can overwrite it if 
you have the permissions. Finding out what the target file is may 
need a shell command though.

[Dad-:-sim-v]:~/rebol-276$ chmod +x rebol
[Dad-:-sim-v]:~/rebol-276$ rebol
bash: rebol: command not found

Gimp can be loaded from the command console. Could it be loaded if 
there were no gui such as KDE?

Ok, I see what you mean. I guess it would be best to keep all options 
open. I've just be intriged by how much faster one can, for example, 
locate files use the command console---it is almost instant.

Most of what I do could in theory be done from the command line (I 
don't edit images much), but the gain or loss in productivity varies.

I'm keeping KDE, but I find myself more and more using the the command 
console (or eshell from emacs).

Not really, just emulate the immersiveness.  I dealt with 16 lines 
of 64 characters for so many years that my little utility (in menta-space) 
uses a 32 by 80 character screen but all the output is normal text 
(with those confounded carriage returns).  We used shadows blocks 
extensively and I got so used to the technical docs being single 
letter command away...Just pineing.  Aside from that, is there a 
way to feed the string  $1,000,000  into block parsing?

yeah exactly.  The unRebol way is to just string parse and then take 
the first token as a command...seems unworthy.  But I am willing 
to put up with a mirage for that immersive looky feely.

Well, I've never gone Forth, and I'm not sure what a block editor 
is, but maybe you can benefit from some console commands. I almost 
always use Crimson Editor. I have an EDIT command which launches 
Crimson Editor, and I navigate the filesystem in the rebol console 
using dir-utils.r, which supplies unix-like filesystem commands; 
CD, LS, MV etc.
http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/os/windows/edit.r
http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/library/dir-utils.r

Sorry for the confusion here.  A forth "block" editor, uses a 1K 
chunk of disk as 16 lines of 64 characters.  There are forth words 
for the editor e.g.  9 LIST ( list block 9)     3 T ( Highlight line 
3)  P newword: ( n - n) DUP . ;   ( place the text "newword: ..." 
to end of command line onto line 3.  What you get is an editor that 
uses the same language that you are programming in.  Immersive.

Sorry Volker, missed the lineno arg to the p command.  Nice.

I added a few new things to the BASIC:

added DELETE command, added arguments to LIST, added STOP statement 
and some more (see source). Example of use:

>> do http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/basic.r
connecting to: www.fys.ku.dk
Script: "BASIC" (24-Jun-2007)
BASIC

>auto 5 5
    5 print "Line 5"
   10 rem goto 20
   15 blab
   20 print "Line 20"
   25 stop
   30 0
>run
Line 5

Mistake at line 15
>10 goto 20
>run
Line 5
Line 20

STOP at line 25
>

Forth has a very (untouchable actually) immersive feel to it.  As 
long as you avoid working with the sad sad current trend of text 
file forth, everything you do in Forth is Forth.  Editor commands...Forth, 
disk management Forth, debugger Forth, locate and cross reference, 
Forth.  Anyway I'm still questing for a REBOL enviroment that allows 
that immersive feel.  No brain switching to Editor, back to console 
command brain, then another brain switch to file manager, bobloblaw. 
 Mondo powerful when you can keep your brain in one mode for a full 
eight hours.  Even building Forth was Forth.  I do kinda miss it, 
but only for semimental reasons.  REBOL is just too cool to think 
about going back.

Last year I created a small database which I wanted to talk to via 
a dialect. So I created a builder dialect that would build the database 
command dialect in two sets, one for server side for query handling 
and one for client side for response handling, so 3 dialects.

Then I would build client- and server-apps using a make-file like 
dialect which preprocesses and builds apps and uploads them to specific 
locations. 4 dialects. Great amount of control. Very little code.

Graham the command fails so i guess something has port 80 tied up 
though i don't know what this might be.  I've tried this on 2 pc's 
on one the localhost fails with no page found, and on another im 
prompted for a user password.  I'll talk to my tech.

I don't know how it's with https, I don't have /command

I don't know how it would have HTTPS server support, even with /Command. 
I thought /Command only has SSL client support.

well, command can read https pages...?

Or, at least an example of a uniserve client copes with using a command 
and a data port.

It would require to control a "data port service" from a "command 
port service".

I wonder how just opening a port to Cheyenne and inserting the command, 
and then closing immediately would work??

Closing just after sending command : should work.

Yeah, that is kinda in the progess of being built.  There are some 
awesome resources
but they need to be tracked down sometimes....

The cookbook  http://rebol.net/cookbookbeing one starting point.

rebol.org  has a lot of scripts, but it requires reading code a lot 
of the time....
The REBOL Viewtop  (desktop command at console)
    REBOL Folder ->Tools->Word Browser is not bad for options

Trace/net  did gave more info:

Its not my new internet provider... :)  its our old router used in 
a new way... :)
This is the message I get...
Username... pass.... OK.... and then:
Net-log: "Opening listen port 2655"
Net-log: [["PORT" port/locals/active-check] "200"]
Net-log: "200 PORT command successful"
Net-log: [["CWD" port/path] ["25" "200"]]
Net-log: "250 OK. Current directory is /apl"
Net-log: "Type: new"
Net-log: ["TYPE I" "200"]
Net-log: "200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary"
Net-log: [["STOR" port/target] ["150" "125"]]
Net-log: "Closing cmd port 2652 21"
Net-log: "Closing listen port 2655"
** Access Error: Network timeout
** Where: confirm
** Near: to-port: open/binary/new/direct server/:file

thats what is bugging me.... ftp from windows command line works...

here's list from my system:

connecting to: www.jablunkovsko.cz
Net-log: [none ["220" "230"]]
Net-log: "220 (vsFTPd 1.2.1)"
Net-log: [["USER" port/user] "331"]
Net-log: "331 Please specify the password."
Net-log: [["PASS" port/pass] "230"]
Net-log: "230 Login successful."
Net-log: ["SYST" "*"]
Net-log: "215 UNIX Type: L8"
Net-log: ["PWD" "25"]
Net-log: {257 "/"}
Net-log: "Opening listen port 50061"
Net-log: [["PORT" port/locals/active-check] "200"]
Net-log: "200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV."
Net-log: "Type: dir"
Net-log: ["TYPE A" "200"]
Net-log: "200 Switching to ASCII mode."
Net-log: ["LIST" ["150" "125"]]
Net-log: "150 Here comes the directory listing."
Net-log: "Closing listen port 50061"
Net-log: "Closing data port 193.85.151.2 50061 20"
Net-log: [none ["226" "250"]]
Net-log: "226 Directory send OK."
Net-log: "Caching cmd-port www.jablunkovsko.cz 50060 21"

Where should I check ports and which ports?

how can it work from command prompt with ftp command, from total 
commander and not from rebol script?

only problem is router.... without it if I connect directly PC with 
WAN connection... rebol scripts work...

I connect router on wan and pc on lan port and only rebol script 
doesnt work...
filezilla, total commander, ftp command from windows works...

here is something new....
I tried few things from windows command line.
here are two scripts and two logs:
1. script
binary
cd apl
put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
quit

1.log
......
230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
ftp> binary
200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary
ftp> cd apl
250 OK. Current directory is /apl
ftp> put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
200 PORT command successful

425 Could not open data connection to port 35370: Operation timed 
out
ftp> quit
221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes.
221 Logout.

here is command with error:
to-port: open/binary/new/direct server/:file
** Access Error: Network timeout
** Where: confirm
** Near: to-port: open/binary/new/direct server/:file

It seems the problem is after the PORT command.

It  define the port used to receive or send the file data (depending 
the command you issue).

Use Wireshark to have a look to what Total commander do regarding 
its PORT command.
So we can compare with the Rebol commands.


I guess the router firewall block the one Rebol use, but Total commander 
do it in an over way.

Here is log from rebol ftp upload:


No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol 
Info

     67 3.356898    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP   
        spiral-admin > ftp [SYN] Seq=0 Win=16384 Len=0 MSS=1460

     79 3.982028    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP   
        ftp > spiral-admin [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=16384 Len=0 MSS=1100

     80 3.982082    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP   
        spiral-admin > ftp [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=16500 Len=0

     90 4.056926    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------

     92 4.057544    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: USER visaprom.com

    102 4.129540    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 331 User visaprom.com OK. Password required

    103 4.129689    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PASS Du4m1t0R

    106 4.241608    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www    
     

    107 4.241781    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: SYST

    118 4.305921    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8

    119 4.306117    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PWD

    134 4.367656    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 257 "/" is your current location

    136 4.370939    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PORT 192,168,2,108,13,111

    143 4.435976    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 200 PORT command successful

    144 4.468135    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: CWD apl/

    194 5.499179    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        [TCP Retransmission] Request: CWD apl/

    198 5.565745    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 250 OK. Current directory is /apl

    199 5.565955    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: TYPE I

    275 7.640872    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary

    276 7.641186    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: STOR ik104test.zip

    290 7.903130    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        ftp > spiral-admin [ACK] Seq=613 Ack=111 Win=16500 Len=0

   1279 37.655879   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP 
        spiral-admin > ftp [FIN, ACK] Seq=111 Ack=613 Win=15888 Len=0

I note in the "wireshark log.txt" you linked above, there is [TCP 
CHECKSUM INCORRECT] soon after the STOR command. I don't know what 
it means exactly.

I see no PORT command in Totalcommander log. That seems going in 
the way I claim before.

Right. I once talked with an astronomer working in Lund, Sweden. 
He told me about the software, they use. It's mostly based in code 
written in the 70'ies (in FORTH, if I remember correctly). It's good, 
well-tested software of course, but the user interfaces are terrible, 
often just a command-line. It could be interesting doing modern versions 
of some of that software using REBOL. But the scientists have to 
be 100% sure, the output is correct and the same as they get from 
the software, they use now. If the right function libraries were 
developed in REBOL (rebcode), I think scientists could be a good 
user-base (developer-base) for the REBOL language.

Yeah, I would leave the scientists alone ... it's like trying to 
wean a unix user from their command line tools!

I live in command line with Rebol and I'm happy:)

Ok, I have this observation.  I get crashes or errors with using 
the getInteger command when passing a string parameter to the skype4com 
dll.  I don't get an error if I don't pass a parameter.  I don't 
get errors when passing strings to Getobject.  I also don't get errors 
passing strings to getInteger to other dlls.  Just Skype.

I'm developing a byte-code style for OpenGL commands, so little communication 
is needed. Only 1 byte for the command (gl, glu and glut commands 
are fewer than 256), and 4 bytes for most parameters. So many commands 
are fewer than 10 bytes of communication. It may not be fast enough 
for games, but I hope, it's fast enough to make tools and fast OpenGL 
prototyping (trying out ideas).

But what you wrote is similar too
either 1 = random 2[ write%file "Hello"][write %file "world"]

What a task does depends upon what a task gets. I imagine a task 
in erlang as a little engine, which gets things of various kinds, 
wires them together when it has one of each kind and passes them 
further. And that "further" can not be deterministic with real hardware. 
Think of an out-of-order-cpu, a little delay in a memory-fetch and 
the command is processed by another pipeline. And that is without 
routing around crashed things. I prefer to have a full featured language 
to calculate the new route, not something restricted.

eh, did not know it ... I thought that Command SDK does support it 
cross platformly ...

sqlite open command expects a fully qualified local file name ... 
the line in question prepends the supplied file name with current 
dir unless the file name is in fact a path.

I have created a semicolon seperated file and imported it via the 
SQLite command line tool. All numbers where just plain included, 
not guarded by " chars.

I use the SQLite command line tool for batch importing.

MySQL has a non-standard command for inserting if not there for update: 
REPLACE. SQLite has more detailed conflict resolution, but includes 
REPLACE as a MySQL-compatible shortcut for INSERT OR REPLACE (the 
OR REPLACE is itself a shortcut for ON CONFLICT REPLACE). I agree 
that UPDATE should have the option of acting like INSERT OR REPLACE.

I didn't think that you needed to write any code to backup individual 
tables in SQLite but just supply the table name as a parameter to 
the .dump command.

I believe you can do this from the command line with SQLite3.

Then I'll give me Rebol/Pro or the whole command/sdk as present.

Now I expect a totally free Rebol/Command :-)

You don't need /Command SQLite, just library access and you get that 
in /Pro. There are other advantages to /Command though.

All the tables are stored in the 'sqlite_master' table (including 
the 'Create' command)

Ashley, I just remembered that you can't call CONNECT/CREATE several 
times in one application. It gives the error "Database already connected" 
even if you use different file names.


To open more than one database file you have to use the sql ATTACH 
command starting from the 2nd database file.

I see one problem, if the to-be-opened database doesn't exists yet 
it needs to be created. This can only be done by a call to sqlite3_open 
and not via the ATTACH sql command.

I got the 'like' command working with a text string but I can not 
fiqure out how to use variables...
something like:

rslts: sql reduce [{SELECT * FROM books WHERE ftext LIKE '%?%' } 
var]

I have retried after removing file by hand (command line) and after 
flushing the cache : no more luck !

The problem is that today REBOL is doing everything itself. It is 
making the socket connection, sending the GET command, etc. In the 
process, it has to know everything about the proxy settings and do 
everything natively.


I am proposing adding new HTTP/FTP support that uses the Win32 API. 
No more socket communication within REBOL -- instead, Win32 does 
everything, including interacting with proxies.

imo not ... proxy is not about security imo. Https requires ssl inbuilt, 
and it is only in Command imo. But if you mean that security should 
not be luxury and it should be provided by default in all rebol versions, 
then I am with you :-)

and not require command

<PARAM NAME="Args" VALUE="?"> ? Command-line arguments passed to 
the script (available in system/options/args).

Terry: I run it on XP with the following command-line : rebol -s 
cheyenne.r, no security requestors here.

Has anyone tested php on windows. And do I need to uncomment : ;	bind 
fastcgi to [.php .php3 .php4] and :;	extern fastcgi [
;		command	 "php -b $port"
;		pool 	 min 1 max 4
;		server	 192.168.0.100 ; port 1234
;		root-dir "/home/dk/fcgi/"
;	]

robert, by default Command does fast cgi in cgi emulation mode. this 
way nothing changes for the cgi script except that words/values persist 
across invocations.

Ah, didn't know that. So, I run the RS server part via command and 
see what happens. Will do so.

the shebang stays as usual (command -cs)

command will detect tha apache called it as fastcgi and will stay 
running

Here's a patched version of do-sql working with /Command DB drivers 
(paste it in %handlers/RSP.r) :

Note that the /FLAT won't work with /Command drivers (I'll add such 
support in next releases).

/Command DB API is a de-facto standard. I didn't complied with that 
standard, just because I found it not handy the db-port / command-port 
approach ...so my fault ;-)

...I found the db-port / command-port approach not handy...

command

Graham, there's some info here about default browser in the registry:

http://newoldthing.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/how-does-your-browsers-know-that-its-not-the-default-browser/


It's not only the file-type, it seems, but also per protocol. Try 
check for example HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/HTTP/shell/open/command and such.

or art there someother command line params?

Any reason not to?


If only I could figure out how to insert a carraige return after 
the image on teh front page in the reduced MakeDoc command set....