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Is that branch up to date with the latest bug fixes?

Any updates on a date for Red ( not system ) ?

I use Query PerformnceCounter in Windows in my Date-Time lib.

It's even better to check out the repositories with Fossil, so you 
can keep them up to date easily:

I can't accept your pull request, it's a complete merge of different 
branches (you're probably mixed up several branches, or you haven't 
rebase before submitting the pull request). You need to submit only 
the changes you did. For that, you need to have a clean codebase 
and up-to-date wrt the branch you're modifying.

I think it went a little too far at times, especially the lack of 
marshallers for immediate values that are more than 64 bits internally. 
I've frequently wanted to supplement it with marshallers for the 
other datatypes in R3, particularly the date, time and money types.

If people check out the repository, you get all programs at once 
and you can keep them up to date very simply for new test versions:

but then, I'm pretty anal about keeping the system up-to-date

Now Red supports 21 datatypes. In the following R3 datatype list, 
datatypes with a minus prefix are not supported in Red yet.


action -binary -bitset block char -closure -command datatype -date 
-decimal -email -end -error -event -file -frame function get-path 
get-word -gob -handle -image integer -issue -library lit-path lit-word 
logic -map -module -money native none -object op -pair -paren path 
-percent -port -rebcode refinement set-path set-word string -struct 
-tag -task -time -tuple -typeset unset -url -utype -vector word

Actually old stuff will die off - Mayans thought about the date as 
of the new fresh era, new oportunities, so quite the opposite :-)

Is http://www.red-lang.org/p/roadmap.htmlcurrent? You've been making 
so much progress, I'm guessing it's a little out of date.

Doc, could you bring lex-scope up to date with master? Then I can 
start testing it

You can easily keep your forked dyn-lib-emitter up-to-date with just 
a `git rebase`.

cool, thanks! I also know of this:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming/Language_Features/Parse/Parse_expressions

I lost track of, what REBOL docs are good and up-to-date.

For checking out the complete repository and simply keeping them 
up to date for new test versions:

now gives a string with date and time, but using  the refinements 
dont't give back a result.
This is on Windows XP

strange, I just re-downloaded at it was empty... will check if its 
not something with browser caching... though it shouldn't if the 
file date changed on the server.

maybe, simply adding a folder with the date of any automated builds. 
 this way we can easily backtrack any issues in time.

Regarding the "portal", I fear I have to agree with sqlab so far. 
The approach of just wholesale copying in or duplicating information 
from other primary sources strikes me as particularly bad. 

For example:
http://rebol.informe.com/wiki/view/REBOL_2_Guide

This just copies over the "REBOL Programming" wikibook:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming


However, it does so, without _any_ attribution at all, giving people 
no hint where as to the primary source for that information. Second, 
it is a one-off import which is not being kept up to date, so really 
just muddies the information out there. For example, Ladislav recently 
updated the "mold" article [1], but where is that reflected in the 
rip-off?

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming/mold


I strongly suggest that this wholesale importing of other information 
is stopped or maybe even undone. Otherwise you'll just create more 
stale information. Just a link to to the primary sources really is 
the better approach.


If you want this site to take off, create _new_ information; this 
way, you'll actually _add_ value.

Did you notice that the updated date is 29-Feb-2013?  That date doesn't 
exist.

Robert, Thanks for the R3-gui release.  Do you have a date for Rebol 
and view engine also being part of a source release?  


These where one of the most frequently recurring discussions at the 
devcon.

I use this function:
Int2Date: func [i][1-Jan-1970/0:00 + to-time i]

i is unix style date (seconds from 1970)

you may need to change 0:00 to your GMT, if you don't store GMT separately.

Christopher Gill's form-date.r is something I can't live without.
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=form-date.r

I use my own functions, returns always in ISO format, YYYY-MM-DD 
HH:NN:SS


padz: func ["Pad to right with zero." s n [integer!] /left /with 
c [char! string!]] [

    head insert/dup either left [tail form s] [form s] first form either 
    with [c] [#"0"] n - length? form s
]

format-date: func [d [date!]] [

 ajoin [d/date/year "-" padz d/date/month 2 "-" padz d/date/day 2 
 either d/time [ajoin [" " padz d/time/hour 2 ":" padz d/time/minute 
 2 ":" padz to-integer d/time/second 2]] [""]]
]

date-to-epoch: func [
    "Returns a unix time (epoch) format from a date."
    date [date!]
][
    ; If no time is given, negate our zone to give us 0:00 UTC
    if none? date/time [date/time: negate now/zone]
    ; This uses the epoch base in UTC, so we assume that either
    ; the date is also in UTC, or has a zone offset included.
    ; DIFFERENCE fails for huge time differences, so we subtract
    ; them instead, giving us a difference in days, and multiply
    ; by the number of seconds in a day.

    either attempt [positive? res: to integer! difference date 1-Jan-1970/0:0:0] 
        [res]
        [date - 1-Jan-1970/0:0:0 * 86400.0]
]

where I am wrong ?

I have an object called news
news/tittle: "Something"
news/data: 06-may-2012

I want to display these data using VID

view layout [
	h2  news/tittle
	h2  news/date
]

news/tittle is displayed
news/date is not

Where I am wrong ?

to-string news/date solves the problem

These should probably be wrapped into TO-UTC-DATE and TO-LOCAL-DATE 
functions, so the R3 vs. R2 differences can be resolved.

Except that you get a date instead of an integer?

When I use rename function to rename a file, the file date on my 
Mac OS X changes too. When I change a name using finder, carefully 
clicking the file and renaming it, the date does not change. Doe 
sthis happen on other platforms too? How to steer this behaviour?

You can use rebol to get the mod date and change it back after the 
move

you can simply say that when an entry doesn't have a year, it is 
always larger,  so you have them at the end of the list.  you could 
then sort those without a date according to their name.


if you want just the list for "1991-1992" yes, that is a good approach... 


however usually, the fastest way to filter-out lists, is to copy 
the block (not deep, so its quick) and then use remove-each on the 
new block... like-so:

filtered-data: copy data

remove-each [hash mcapz] filtered-data [ not select mcapz "1991-1992"]

A beginners question. I have some code that allows a user to input 
a date or leave it blank;

datetime: field

I get the data by accessing;

datetime/text


My question is, if the user leaves the field empty, how do I test 
for this? I have tried none? And empty?

If none? datetime/text [print "Select a date"]


produces a Script Error: 'datetime has no value'. How do I test if 
datetime/text is null so I can ask the user to go back and fill in 
the datetime field?

Rebol [
    Title: "Catch"
    File: %catch.r
    Date: 5-Oct-2012/17:49:58+2:00
    Author: "Ladislav Mecir"
    Purpose: {
    	Catches local throw'
    	Ignores non-local throws
    }
]

; Error definition
system/error: make system/error [
	throw': make object! [
		code: system/error/throw/code + 50
		type: "throw' error"
    	not-caught: ["throw' not caught"]
    ]
]

catch': func [
    {Catches a throw' from a block and returns the value.}
    [throw]
    block [block!] "Block to evaluate"
    /local err disarmed
] [
	use [throw'] copy/deep compose/only [
		; "localize" 'throw' in the block
		block: (block)

		throw': func [[catch] value [any-type!]] [
			disarmed: disarm err: make error! [throw' not-caught]
			set/any in disarmed 'arg1 get/any 'value
			disarmed/arg2: 'throw'
			throw err
		]

		get/any either all [
			error? set/any 'err try block
			(
				disarmed: disarm err
				disarmed/type = 'throw'
			)
			disarmed/id = 'not-caught
			disarmed/arg2 =? 'throw'
		] [
			in disarmed 'arg1
		] [
			'err
		]
	]
]

I used that to get really more familiar with REBOL. It is a good 
introduction, unfortunately it is not finished. The up-to-date is 
less bothering for it is the basics that's covered and those are 
the same still.

I assume rebol doesn't have "Labeled Timezon => current offset" capability 
so I am wondering if anybody had to do this and what (s)he found 
the best solution was? I see two ways, using external service in 
a lang that has such database/library (like php's ) or using the 
OS below (from bash) "TZ=":Pacific/Auckland" ; date +%z" ... also 
is there anything still I can do inside rebol, like getting some 
prefilled sqlite db using some lib I don't know of..

BrianH: yes, this is an old quote. 
OpenDBX's support for MSSQL is worse than REBOL's

 - it doesn't look that bad, just new datatypes are not supported 
 like TIME, DATE.

ok, so what do the columns returned by the [columns]  query mean? 
 (without docs, remember I'm not assuming the docs are up to date 
or even apply to Firebirds interface)


I tried to list the RDB$FIELDS metadata table, but it clearly doesn't 
match the columns output.

The ODBC docs are up to date. Remember, the main problem with R2's 
ODBC support is that it hasn't changed at all in 11-12 years, though 
ODBC itself has. That does mean that the docs there are up to date.

I have a problem with RebDB: how works db-select/group?
Example:

>> db-select/where/group/count [ID title post date]  archive  [find 
post "t" ] [ID]
** User Error: Invalid number of group by columns
** Near: to error! :value

I use the sql dialect like this:

sql [select count [ID title post date] from archive group by [ID 
title post] where [find post "t"]]


The trick with this particular query is the that the "count" selector 
must have exactly one more column than the "group by" selector.  
The first three elements [ID title post] are used to sort the output 
and the last element [date] is counted.

output will be organized:
	ID	title	post	count

since this is the trace

HEAD /index.html HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Charset: utf-8
Host: www.rebol.com
User-Agent: REBOL

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:03:18 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:02:21 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html
Via: 1.1 BC5-ACLD
Content-Length: 7407
Connection: close

There is a bug here


  if headers/last-modified [info/date: attempt [to date! headers/last-modified]]

>> write http://www.rebol.com/index.html[ HEAD ]
make object! [
    name: none
    size: none
    date: none
    type: 'file
    response-line: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
    response-parsed: none
    headers: make object! [
        Content-Length: "7407"
        Transfer-Encoding: none
        Last-Modified: "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:02:21 GMT"
        Date: "Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:24:53 GMT"
        Server: "Apache"
        Accept-Ranges: "bytes"
        Content-Type: "text/html"
        Via: "1.1 BC5-ACLD"
        Connection: "close"
    ]
]

But to-date will not work with "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:02:21 GMT" so 
info/date gets set to none

digit: charset [ #"0" - #"9" ]
alpha: charset [ #"a" - #"z" #"A" - #"Z" ]
idate-to-date: func [ date [string!] /local day month year zone]
[

 either parse date [ 5 skip copy day 2 digit space copy month 3 alpha 
 space copy year 4 digit space copy time to space space copy zone 
 to end ][
		if zone = "GMT" [ zone: copy "+0" ]
		to date! rejoin [ day "-" month "-" year "/" time zone ]
	][ none ]
]


if headers/last-modified [info/date: attempt [ idate-to-date headers/last-modified] 
]
		
seems to work

Chris, the easiest way to do what you are trying to do is to use 
sys/load-header, which returns a block of the decoded header object, 
the position of the script after the header (after decompressing 
it if need be), and the position after the whole script (useful for 
embedded scripts. If the script is embedded in a block it will decode 
the whole script and return the decoded block at the position after 
the header, but that can't be helped. R3 scripts are binary, not 
text, so the returned script position is binary.

>> sys/load-header "#!/some/path 1foo^/REBOL []^/script here"
== [make object! [
        title: "Untitled"
        name: none
        type: none
        version: none
        date: none
        file: none
        author: none
        needs: none
        options: none
        checksum: none
    ] #{7363726970742068657265} #{}]


>> to-string second sys/load-header "#!/some/path 1foo^/REBOL []^/script 
here"
== "script here"


Note that it will skip past one trailing newline after the header, 
if one exists.

Here's an example of that script-in-a-block embedding I mentioned:


>> sys/load-header "#!/some/path 1foo^/[REBOL []^/script here] other 
stuff"
== [make object! [
        title: "Untitled"
        name: none
        type: none
        version: none
        date: none
        file: none
        author: none
        needs: none
        options: none
        checksum: none
    ] [
        script here
    ] #{206F74686572207374756666}]

Pavel used a read/lines to format the date in local date format. 
 I replaced that with write options

So, you can 

read time://time.nist.gov to get the date

or

write time://time.nist.gov [ GMT }

to get the date back in GMT.

When did this behaviour of rejoin change?

>> type? rejoin [ http:// "www.rebol.com" ]
== url!

>> rejoin [ now/date ]
== "17-Jan-2013"

what exactly does mode do?

)
>> query/mode %tiger.png none
== make object! [
    name: %/E/r3gui/tiger.png
    size: 6515
    date: 26-Apr-2009/9:12:54+13:00
    type: 'file
]

>> query %tiger.png
== make object! [
    name: %/E/r3gui/tiger.png
    size: 6515
    date: 26-Apr-2009/9:12:54+13:00
    type: 'file
]

>> query/mode %tiger.png 'size
== make object! [
    name: %/E/r3gui/tiger.png
    size: 6515
    date: 26-Apr-2009/9:12:54+13:00
    type: 'file
]

>> do %test-module.r
Module: "Untitled" Version: 0.0.1 Date: none
** Script error: new-word word is not bound to a context

** Where: set function! do -apply- make catch either either -apply- 
do
** Near: set 'new-word none

How does wait on a date! work?  is the date checked or is there a 
signal/event produced on change of system date ?

Old Bug, New Bug, Red Bug, Blue Bug?


I'm using the ARM build from rebolsource.net and getting the following 
unexpected behavior:

>> template: read %template.html


It outputs template as if it was a binary file, although it is plain 
text.

The build date on the package was 24-Jan-2013.

Is this by design or oversight? DATE can be used for most access 
paths, but not with PICK
    ser: [1-jan-2000 9999]
    select ser 1-jan-2000
    == 9999
    find ser 1-jan-2000
    == [1-Jan-2000 9999]

    ser/1-jan-2000
    == 9999
    pick ser 1-jan-2000
    ** Script error: invalid argument: 1-Jan-2000

Just to clarify: Carl said it was his intention to stop by if he 
can get away from work for a bit.  I'm going to see if I can pin 
him down to a date and time.

Hi, i'm at the beginning of a project in which i need access to a 
remote MySQL db. 

I tried Softinnov's MySQL driver, but that seems to be outdated (MySQL 
complains about client protocol).
Does anyone know an up-to-date MySQL driver for Rebol (2 or 3)?

Yes, the documentation is still up to date.

is there another repository that is more up to date than the rebol/r3 
repo on github?  I really need to get the best sources ASAP.

Afaict some of the ODBC APIs for Unix/Linux are kept up to date. 
Supporting those too would be a good idea. ODBC isn't Windows-specific.

Of course this should be on rebol.com, but that's currently not up-to-date 
and doesn't include activity levels. Any comments, additions, etc?

Suggested message title? I was thinking something like: Community 
Activity Report for <Date>

If AltME allowed you to choose a date to start the restore from, 
and allow the search feature to retrieve previously unretrieved messages 
- it would be a very nice system.

You mean if Carl had reinstalled a 6-week old backup of  the master 
REBOL2 world, it could have recync'ed itself  by finding later messages 
from the rest of us?

(I'm guessing six weeks since the last viable backup, as that was 
the date for one of the IOS restores).

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2Header
//- Header for all Md2 files, 
struct SMD2Header
{
   int m_iMagicNum; //Always IDP2 (844121161)
   int m_iVersion;  //8
   int m_iSkinWidthPx;  
   int m_iSkinHeightPx; 
   int m_iFrameSize; 
   int m_iNumSkins; 
   int m_iNumVertices; 
   int m_iNumTexCoords; 
   int m_iNumTriangles; 
   int m_iNumGLCommands; 
   int m_iNumFrames; 
   int m_iOffsetSkins; 
   int m_iOffsetTexCoords; 
   int m_iOffsetTriangles; 
   int m_iOffsetFrames; 
   int m_iOffsetGlCommands; 
   int m_iFileSize; 
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2Vert
//- Vertex structure for MD2
struct SMD2Vert
{
float m_fVert[3];
unsigned char m_ucReserved;
};


//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2Frame
//- Frame information for the model file 
struct SMD2Frame
{
float m_fScale[3];
float m_fTrans[3];
char m_caName[16];
SMD2Vert * m_pVerts;

//Cleans up after itself
SMD2Frame()
{
m_pVerts = 0;
}

~SMD2Frame()
{
if(m_pVerts)
delete [] m_pVerts;
}
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2Tri
//- Triangle information for the MD2
struct SMD2Tri
{
unsigned short m_sVertIndices[3];
unsigned short m_sTexIndices[3];
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2TexCoord
//- Texture coord information for the MD2
struct SMD2TexCoord
{
float m_fTex[2];
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//- SMD2Skin
//- Name of a single skin in the md2 file
struct SMD2Skin
{
char m_caSkin[64];//filename
CImage m_Image;//Image file ready for texturing
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------
//                        CTIMER                              -
// author: Evan Pipho ([evan-:-codershq-:-com])                     -
// date  : Jul 10, 2002                                       -
//-------------------------------------------------------------
class CMd2 : public CModel
{
public:

//Set skin to one of the files specified in the md2 files itself
void SetSkin(unsigned int uiSkin);
//Set skin to a different image
void SetSkin(CImage& skin);

//Load the file
bool Load(const char * szFilename);

//Render file at the initial position
void Render();
//Render the file at a certain frame
void Render(unsigned int uiFrame);


//Animate the md2 model (start and end frames of 0 and 0 will loop 
through the WHOLE model

void Animate(float fSpeed = 30.0f, unsigned int uiStartFrame = 0, 
unsigned int uiEndFrame = 0, bool bLoop = true);

//constructors/destructo
CMd2();
CMd2(const char * szFile);
~CMd2();

private:

CTimer m_Timer;
//file header information
SMD2Header m_Head; 
//Frame information
SMD2Frame * m_pFrames;
//Triangles
SMD2Tri * m_pTriangles;
//Texure coords
SMD2TexCoord * m_pTexCoords;
//Skin files
SMD2Skin * m_pSkins;
//Interpolated vertices
SMD2Vert * m_pVerts;
//Current skin
unsigned int m_uiSkin;
//Using a custom skin?
bool m_bIsCustomSkin;
//The custom skin
CImage * m_pCustSkin;

};

I just looked at liquid.r

and got this...

;; ===========================
;; Script: liquid.r
;; Downloaded from: www.REBOL.org
;; On: 6-Jul-2004/12:40:49
;; ===========================
;; email address(es) have been munged to
;; protect them from spam harvesters.
;; Munged: %moliad--aei--ca
;; ===========================

rebol [
	; -- basic rebol header --
	file: 		%liquid.r
	version: 	0.9.1
	date: 		2004-01-25
	title: 		"liquid.r - data flow management"
	author:		"Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch"
	copyright:	"Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch"

Does the library add the comments before the script starts, and what 
is the meaning of the date "6-Jul-2004"  ?

The library does add those comments and I'm guessing that the date 
is when it was last uploaded...

The Library does add tnose comments when you click the download button.

It's partially to warn you if the munging to protext emails has changed 
the script in any way that matters -- you may need to demung some 
scripts to make them work.
.

The date is irrelevant and confusing. It means nothi ng....I don't 
think we add it any more. If you want to know the history of versions 
of a script: use the History link, eg:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/script-history.r?script-name=liquid.r

Graham -- nice idea, but I can see two problems:

[1] [web-public] is not a fine enough flag to control whether a whole 
group should be published publicly.

web-public needs a start date [or ranges of dates] to indicate which 
messages were posted while the group was not private.

Without that, we'd be republishing messages from a "secure and private 
world" (Altme's own description) without explicit permission from 
all the contributers.

Either that, or the publisher will need a list of which forums are 
public, and the date range(s) for which messages can be published.
That initial list would need to be constructed manually.

Thereafter, they could keep it up to date by watching for "[web-public]" 
to appear or disappear in group titles.

REBOLCentral is now nearly five months old as a project,

  it would be best to not connect the date someone begins talking about 
  something with when the "project began."


Separate than this specific example, I notice this comes up a lot. 
 I guess phrases like "Bob has been talking about fixing that for 
years now" just seem very odd to me.  Unless Bob himself set the 
end date….or start date.


Anyway…funny enough, we were just talking this week about what off 
the shelf tools we plan to use for RebolCentral.  Over the past 5 
months, we built a non-profit wonderfully successful website for 
another cause that has generated great usage and created a sense 
of community.  Now that it is pretty stable, we will be moving on 
to RC.

sunanda I am getting an error from the server itself!  


whenever I press download, it starts the download (shows the green 
xfer data on the bottom, and then pops up an error:  here is the 
error as reported by LDS:

make object! [
    status: [100 20 "bad cgi data"]
    data: none
    diagnostics: [9003 9003 9.8084E-2]
    supply-date: 15-Sep-2006/1:03:41
]


have any idea where that is comming from?  I try to check it out 
from the code I have... but its been sooo long, A nudge on your part 
will help me get this working much faster IMHO!

%datascreen.r  %screening.r?  Naming is fun.  %filtered-import.r 
is nice too.


Note to everybody:  If you haven't, check out Chris's %form-date.r, 
newly in the library...
Chris's func'ies are funky, and a nice learn.

Done.  Maxim...you may want to update the History, date them for 
when you actually
wrote the code...   animresize.r  and  fastscroll.r

For everybody...no more mucking with date formatting...  Use Chris' 
%form-date.r from the library.

form-date now/precise "%c"  full REBOL timestamps nicely formatted. 
 "%s" added for seconds with nanosecond precision.  (Precision...not 
accuracy)  All your dates and times can line up now.  :)

Redirected from I'm new...javascript time


Integer date and times are a problem without some real mucking about.

Graham;  I just did a search, Gregg posted date-to-epoch in the DZone 
snippets. Along with epoch-to-date.  Looks like standard run of the 
mill world class Gregg code.  :)

And, of course, if you use UNIX date format [seconds from 1-jan-1970], 
you have to politely pretend the dozen or so leap seconds inserted 
since then do not exist.

I haven't used it for a long time, because it's out of date WRT content.

I attempted to rename button.r to vid-button.r so the new script 
should be deleted and the old one renamed if possible.  As for the 
rest of them...

wizard.r  TO vid-wizard.r
group.r TO vid-group.r    
drop-down.r TO vid-drop-down.r   
dragbar.r TO vid-drag-bar.r       
date.r TO vid-date.r


Since we won't be calling the GUI Dialect in R3 VID the new names 
should make what the scripts do clear even after R3 GUI scripts start 
popping up...

REBOL.org just migrated from the world's slowest single server to 
a small load balanced cluster.
Sadly, we're not superfast, but its early days yet.


One cosmetic problem: we're showing the date as 6 hours out. Highly 
trained techies are working to resolve that. Other than that, it 
was a smooth move, mainly handled by the ISP.

Integer digits of a string: I want to check if all the digits of 
a string, str: "1984", are integer number, to check the validity 
of a date. Ideally I do not want to use integer to-integer, as in:

check: func [ str [string!] ] [ for n 1 (length? str) 1 [integer? 
to-integer to-string pick str 1] ]. It seems to me that to beg the 
question.  Any more elegant way to do that?

but that was reported some xyz versions before. They do regular updates, 
it is really a nice app, having auto-updates for itself and its plug-ins, 
simply a joy to use - that is how apps should work - install just 
once and then have it up-to-date for ages ...

otherwise you're better off letting them handle the os upgrade or 
better ask for a up to date box (e.g. with Fedora core 4) and migrate

hrm. I get weird behavior trying to run a cgi.

Here's the code:

#!/usr/local/bin/rebol -c

REBOL [
	Title: "Server Time"
]

print "content-type: text/html^/"
print [<HTML><BODY>]
print ["Date/time is:" now]
print [</BODY></HTML>]


I get an Internal Server Error result in the browser, and here's 
the output in my error_log:


[Sat May 28 16:21:38 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] *** Boot Error 
951: \r

[Sat May 28 16:21:38 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end 
of script headers: time.r


If I run if with 'rebol time.r', it clears the screen and then displays 
this:

content-type: text/html

<HTML> <BODY>
Date/time is: 28-May-2005/16:24:42-7:00
</BODY> </HTML>
Aborted

What the heck am I doing wrong?

[[wisti-:-localhost] cgi-bin]$ /usr/local/bin/rebol -c time.r
content-type: text/html

<HTML> <BODY>
Date/time is: 28-May-2005/16:47:35-7:00
</BODY> </HTML>
[[wisti-:-localhost] cgi-bin]$

[[wisti-:-localhost] cgi-bin]$ unset DISPLAY
[[wisti-:-localhost] cgi-bin]$ /usr/local/bin/rebol -c time.r
content-type: text/html

<HTML> <BODY>
Date/time is: 28-May-2005/16:50:36-7:00
</BODY> </HTML>

Do you mean a CMS written in REBOL?

REBOL CMSes? Not sure there are any as such. It'd be good to have 
a generally available and scalable Rebol CMS.


As an example of what is possible, have a play with the various indexes 
here (topic, date, author, subject)
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-index.r
That's 50+meg of data, 42500 messages. All handled in pure REBOL.

What is wrong with this script?

#!/home/daysprin/public_html/cgi-bin/rebol -cs
REBOL []
print "Content-type: text/html^/"

html: make string! 2000
emit: func [data] [repend html data]

read-cgi: func [
    ;Read CGI data. Return data as string or NONE.
    /local data buffer
][
    switch system/options/cgi/request-method [
        "POST" [
            data: make string! 1020
            buffer: make string! 16380

            while [positive? read-io system/ports/input buffer 16380][
                append data buffer
                clear buffer
            ]
        ]
        "GET" [data: system/options/cgi/query-string]
    ]
    data
    probe data
]

cgi-data: decode-cgi read-cgi
print cgi-data
write/append %nr.txt reform [
	now/date
	system/options/cgi/remote-addr
	mold cgi-data
	newline
]

It writes the date and remote-add to the file, but does not write 
cgi-data to the file. What is wrong?

afaik, the latest formmail.pl is "secure enough" (esp. if you configure 
it properly). it's not the best system out there, and being very 
popular it is also a popular target, but if you don't have time to 
replace it but can keep it up to date you should be fine.

now the dates.   If anyone of us is about to go there and reserve 
flights and hotels... the sooner the date is known, the sooner its 
possible to try and make it.

In fact, in any programming language, code is just data that is executable. 
Some languages allow that the code-data be processed as any other 
date. Rebol is not the only one. And I do not believe that this is 
it's main characteristic. The fundamental characteristic of Rebol 
is that it is a language for exchanging data over networks, be it 
information (data) or programs (code) so that is can be used and 
executed (if code is passed) on any computer connected to the network.

hello, where I could  find facts and values about Rebol vs Business 
world ? with reboltof (christophe Coussement, we have the project 
to write a white paper about Rebol and Business (target date, on 
March 17, 2005, for the french Rebol Day, Paris). How many developpers 
works with Rebol ? how many dowloads of Rebol/core and View ? How 
many licenses for SDK ? Examples of Business with Rebol, tools, softwares. 
Real-world softwares.... etc.

Volker, that 14.11 was a joke reference to 14-Nov-2005, the date 
given at the conference to all questions about release dates, not 
a version number. That date was given as a joke that many didn't 
get, apparently. Myself included, but I didn't make it to the conference.

Q: What's the reason for moving submission date for Demo Contest 
to 31.1. ? Thanks.

I would make it also some 5% transparent, black and white design 
.... top bar displaying some basic buttons, date/time and progress 
dialog ... kind of minimalistic aproach ....