[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-