[REBOL] Re: CASTRO (was: Will this mail arrive?)
From: chalz:earthlink at: 28-May-2002 16:34
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I've send two mails last week and they still didn't made it to the list.
Nevermind, they were just some bug reports (sent to feedback as well so
I hope they've made it at least there).
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Well, this one appears to have made it. I'm starting to think that people should include
a real-time stamp from REBOL just when they send it, so we can see what delivery patterns
are like. Granted, you could check the headers, but sometimes I'm not so sure which
time zone they use, if it's the time from the sender's computer or from his mail server,
etcetc
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Yes, CASTRO, the [.r]ed Commander arrived right from Isle of Freedom to
REBOL near you.
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*doh!* Clever! :)
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You can:
show pictures
read and edit text files
browse directories (surprise ;)
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Any known limits on sizes of pictures and text files (what editor does it use?), or depth
of subdirectories, and "funny-names", ie My Documents?
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you cannot:
rename files
delete files
make directories
(no problem to code it but it was 1:00AM and I'm waking
up at 5:45AM ;)
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Yeah, those are relatively simple tasks. And I understand the, "It's 1am, so deal with
it." ;) I do it too often myself.
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copy files
(no problem for small files but copying some meg files
using write/binary read/binary combo doesn't look very wise to me...)
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If I recall previous discussions on here, some suggested that you create a temp buffer
for copying, with a size cap; create and open the target file, read in the cap amount
of data (if there is at least that much) from the source file, then dump it into the
target file. Once it's been dumped, re-fill the buffer from the source file, dump again,
etcetc, until the remaining data is <= the buffer. I'm sure this isn't the absolutely
most efficient method, though. I have yet to do it myself, but I haven't really needed
to. The only large files I've really manipulated with REBOL were when I wrote a static
download assistant to download MP3s from a friend's machine via http and write them to
disk locally.
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Why am I releasing such unuseful tool?
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Because it has the potential to become useful? ;)
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3. I don't know when I can enhance it as I'm pretty lazy and I like to
start something but I've got problems with finishing
4. So anybody use it, rewrite it, enhance it...
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Yeah, that's the beauty of open source. At least, if you're willing to share your code.
If not, then you're screwed ;) Hehehe.
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PS (to Piss Someone ;-) : I still don't understand why US government is
still boycoting Cuba and in the same time supporting China. They're
occupating Tibet, killing people on stadiums etc etc.. and what is Cuba
doing compared to China? OK, Fidel's talking in TV for hours and hours
and hours and hours and hours and hours...
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*shrugs* The same reason we keep assisting poorer countries with money and arms and
food and medical supplies, even though they usually turn those supplies against us (ie,
Iran). But, we keep doing it. We're dense, I guess ;) Go figure
--Charles
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