[REBOL] Re: newbie looking for archives
From: shawn::mchatten::aliant::ca at: 5-Jul-2001 9:30
Thanks Brett
I'm actually trying to build a test script to test the modem
connections and their speed/throughput for our ISP. I worked with Xtalk Mk4
a lot in my younger days and built several fairly complicated scripts to log
on to several different machines and have them carry on automated
conversations between them (long story). Since then though, the internet
came along and I've moved into other roles away from the technology. About a
year ago I discovered Rebol and built a small script to go to our local
lottery outlet and capture all the winning numbers for the previous draws
and put it into a flat file for comparison to our groups ticket numbers. A
lot of it was directly taken from the Raging Bull script on the Rebol site.
I did it mostly just to prove to myself that I could still code and to find
out whether Rebol was as good a scripting tool as CASL from Xtalk (which I
liked). Rebol worked pretty good for online scripting, parsing pages and
even webcrawling which also perked my interest. But since I have a dialup
connection and want to test the number of times the modem has to try to
connect, the handshake/connect speed, port assignments, logons and passwords
to connect to the ISP, and a host of other things that Xtalk was good at, I
don't see in Rebol. Don't get me wrong. I like the things Rebol can do for
scripting. I just don't know where to find the "things that happen before I
get on the net".
There. I've spilled my guts. Good thing I was going to look through
the archives before I bothered you guys hunh? :-)
Shawn
