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[REBOL] What should we bake? Re:(5)

From: joel:neely:fedex at: 23-Sep-2000 16:00

[gmassar--dreamsoft--com] wrote:
> What I am aiming to accomplish is to implement the decompression > in REBOL and via CGI, the documents in DOC format can be easily > viewed with a Web browser before synchronizing. If any user > wants to read the documents offline, he/she could download the > wanted documents into his/her PDA to read later. > > The alogrithm was invented and written in C by Pat Berne (sp?) > who is (or was) the CTO of Corel. The code is now in public > domain. In order to use the alogrithm,I need to convert the code > by hand into Pascal for my desktop Windows app, namely BigDOC. > It is a specialized text editor with the compression code and > Palm synchronization. See it at http://Visionary2000.com/BigDOC > if you like. >
That URL gets me a 404.
> Since I am not ready for REBOL, would anybody be interested in > converting the code into REBOL. If so, just ask for the code in > either C, Pascal or Java. I have all of them on hand. The code > in REBOL will remain in public, of course. > > Any taker?
I'm interested in looking at it. I don't have the time to do the conversion as a top-priority project, but might be able to pitch in some ideas along the way. -jn-