[REBOL] Re: AW: Re: read ftp:// error
From: gjones05:mail:orion at: 31-May-2001 7:18
Hi, Thorsten,
My suggestions yesterday clearly suffered from sloppiness. Sorry! I've
corrected the oversites AND tested what I could of the result. It
should work now.
Comments interspersed below:
From: "Thorsten Moeller"
> Hi Scott,
>
> thanks for your detailed explanation what to do.
> I produced the file, studied its working, and did
> some modification, mainly for data tracking.
> But for some purposes, when i "do" the generated
> file as described, it doesn't seem to have any effect.
I forgot to have you assign the new scheme to the original system ftp
scheme word path! Use this line to load your hacked version:
system/schemes/ftp: do %/path/to/my/ftp-hack.r
> Is there a way to verify that REBOL uses my
> scheme, not the standard one?
The simplest way to be sure it has been loaded in the proper space is to
re-probe at the console:
probe system/schemes/ftp
and scroll up to verify that the hacked lines appear. Additionally,
placing a {print "I'm here"} statement at the earliest possibly entry
points can give some reassurance while running trials on the hack.
> As well REBOL ask me for a header when doing
> the .../ftp_hack.r, so my file has to look like this
>
> REBOL []
> FTP:
> make object! [
> scheme: 'FTP
> host: none
> port-id: 21
> user: none
> .....
Silly me. Of course you have done the correct thing. Sorry to waste
your time.
> Bringing this task to a success, i will post a
> workaround to the list.
>
> Thorsten
Great!
By the way, I added the foreach print loop to my sample hack, and did
simple ftp directory and file reads, and to my amazement, this function
is called each time (I wish I could figure out where this is getting
called. Grrr!). So I feel confident that this is where the error is
occurring. Check it out with your system, and you should see the German
versions of the month(s). These then cause the error on the 'to-date
line.
I have not checked out the following (and really have no convenient way
to test it), but these are my thoughts on the work-around, assuming that
the above results yield the German names for the months. At the top of
the add-date function, you see:
add-date: func [] [
month: first pdate
system/words/remove pdate
system/words/insert skip pdate 1 month
...
Try adding the following:
add-date: func [] [
month: first pdate
if find ["Mär" "Mai" "Okt" "Dez"] month [month: select ["Mär" "Mar"
Mai
"May" "Okt" "Oct" "Dez" "Dec"] month]
system/words/remove pdate
system/words/insert skip pdate 1 month
...
Of course, I don't know the actual way that the German month names are
abbreviated (I used alta-vista's babel-fish), so these series may need
to be altered to suit. Hopefully, this is self-evident (which
guarantees that it won't be! ;-).
Then once this new hack is reloaded, then the program will hopefully
work on English and German versions of file systems. Now we only have
the other 100+ languages!!!
;-)
I suspect that this functionality could be made more generic, but first
see if any of the above is helpful.
Best wishes,
--Scott Jones
