Novice Amiga Reboler needs help

Hello, I'm new on this list. I've got a few problems I need help with. 1) I'm having trouble when I start up Rebol. It doesn't seem to recognize the user.r info. Any ideas why? I ran set-user. Here the dialog: *REBOL/Core 2.5.0.1.1* *Copyright 1997-2001 REBOL Technologies* *REBOL is a Trademark of REBOL Technologies* *All rights reserved.* ** *loading...* *Component: "Internet Protocols" (22-Mar-2001/17:38:17)* *Finger protocol loaded* *Whois protocol loaded* *Daytime protocol loaded* *SMTP protocol loaded* *POP protocol loaded* *IMAP protocol loaded* *HTTP protocol loaded* *FTP protocol loaded* *NNTP protocol loaded* *Script: "REBOL Extended Definitions" (24-Jan-2000/2:53:35)* *Script: "User Preferences" (26-Feb-2003/0:22:12-6:00)* * /could not be evaluated.*/ *>>* 2) I'm at a loss as to why the example on page 276 in the Rebol for dummies does not seem to work for me. What's wrong here? Here's the dialog: *>> print read whois://[abooks--com--networksolutions--com*] *connecting to: networksolutions.com* *** Access Error: Cannot connect to networksolutions.com* *** Near: print read whois://[abooks--com--networksolutions--com*] *>>* 3) Rebol seems to crash on my Amiga. I've got strICQ & AmigAIM running. It does not seem to be a stable application. How can I nail down as to why it's crashing for me? Take a look at my tag line to see what I'm running. Would applying the unofficial FFS patch to OS3.9 + BB2 from Aminet help me out? To reply to this message, please remember that I've sent this e-mail to both the Rebol list and the AmigaOS39 list, so you might want to remove one of the lists from your response. Kind regards, Jay S. Siegel -- -------------------------------------------------------- In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? =================================================================== Computer used: Amiga A1200 (NTSC version) with 68060 accelerator & Fast SCSI-2 daughter card OS used: AmigaOS 3.9 BB2 (http://os.amiga.com/3.9 ) (http://www.haage-partner.de/download/AmigaOS/ ) TCP/IP stack used: MiamiDx 1.0c (http://www.nordicglobal.com/md.html ) e-mail program used: YAM 2.3p1 (http://www.yam.ch ) ICQ UIN: 27651611 (http://owlnet.net/stricq/ ) AOL IM Name: Yaakov US (http://www.missingpiece.com/AmigAIM )

Addendum to my last post: Oh, sorry, here is Network Solution's new whois url: print read whois://[about--com--whois--networksolutions--com] --Scott Jones

From: "Jay S. Siegel" ...

> 2) I'm at a loss as to why the example on page 276 in the Rebol for

> does not seem to work for me. What's wrong here? Here's the dialog: > > *>> print read whois://[abooks--com--networksolutions--com*] > *connecting to: networksolutions.com* > *** Access Error: Cannot connect to networksolutions.com* > *** Near: print read whois://[abooks--com--networksolutions--com*] > *>>*

Did you modify your user.r by hand at all? Have a look at it using a plain text editor and see if anything looks out of place. The user.r file should live in the same directory as the rebol.exe file (or core.exe, or whatever the amiga rebol executable file is called.) Check that it's there to start with. Show us the contents of the user.r, with your username and password munged. Can you get rebol to crash reliably? ie. after performing a certain action? Try with as few other programs running at the same time. Use this form to submit feedback on the crashes. http://www.rebol.com/feedback.html Anton.

I own an Amiga, but use it on a regular basis and I don't have REBOL on it so I can't help you with the Amiga specific questions, but you might try moving your user.r file (or delete it if you haven't personally changed it for some specific reason) REBOL with automatically rebuild the default user.r file. If you have attempted to change/add something to it, then you might post the part that you changed/added to the list here and we could better help you get it working properly.\ HTH Ammon Johnson CIO of Addept ---------- (www.addept.ws) 435.616.2322 ---------- (ammonATaddeptDOTws)

Hi Jay, It's been a while since I installed Core on my Amiga, but I seem to remember that I had to clean out all the tool-types' info from its icon to get it to work properly. I know it says "Don't delete this!" in the icon, but I did, and then it started to behave. :-) So, you could try that - after making a backup of the original of course. I use View mostly on Amiga, and find it very stable. Best of luck, Carl. On 26-Feb-03, Jay S. Siegel wrote:

> Hello, > I'm new on this list. I've got a few problems I need help with. > Kind regards, > Jay S. Siegel

Hello Anton, On 26-Feb-03, you wrote:

> Did you modify your user.r by hand at all?

> Have a look at it using a plain text editor > and see if anything looks out of place.

> The user.r file should live in the same > directory as the rebol.exe file (or core.exe, > or whatever the amiga rebol executable file > is called.) Check that it's there to start > with.

> Show us the contents of the user.r, > with your username and password munged.

> Can you get rebol to crash reliably? ie. after > performing a certain action?

> Try with as few other programs running at > the same time.

> Use this form to submit feedback on the crashes. > http://www.rebol.com/feedback.html > > Anton. >

Hello Scott, Thanks for both of those whois:// syntax structures. They both work well. On 26-Feb-03, you wrote:

> Addendum to my last post: > > Oh, sorry, here is Network Solution's new whois url: > > print read whois://[about--com--whois--networksolutions--com] > > --Scott Jones

Hello Carl, On 27-Feb-03, you wrote: I didn't see anything in the tool types. For those non-Amigans, tool types are options that are stored as part of the Amiga icon's properties . Amiga icons are .info files, whereas the executable is the same name without the .info suffix. Thus, Rebol.info is the icon file associated with the Rebol executable, or, as us Amigans say, binaries. I do feel a little bit uncomfortable seeing that the latest version of Rebol, in its icon .info file, has a date in 2001 that is prior to the release of the latest version of the AmigaOS, version 3.9 + BB2 (Boing Bag 2), which was released in 2002. Boing Bags are Amiga, Inc.'s names for patches. This would mean to me that the Amiga version of Rebol has not been tested with the latest version of the OS. In fact, in the AmigaOS 3.9 mailing list on Yahoo groups, someone wrote me stating that Rebol Technologies supports up to version 3.1 of AmigaOS and doesn't support the 3.5 & 3.9 versions of AmigaOS. Bummer. :-( Another point is that version 4.0 of the AmigaOS is currently being developed. Will Rebol support AmigaOS 4.0? BTW, Carl, when you get that message in the .info files, chances are that you've got a virus. Do you run a virus checker in the background? If not, when was the last time that you scanned your files for viruses?

> Hi Jay, > It's been a while since I installed Core on my Amiga, but I seem to > Best of luck, > Carl.

Hi Jay,

> My user name is in this e-mail in the header's From: line, so it's no > secret. But, where does a password/passwords go in the user.r?

> *Script: "REBOL Extended Definitions" (24-Jan-2000/2:53:35)* > *Script: "User Preferences" (26-Feb-2003/0:22:12-6:00)* > * /could not be evaluated.*/ > *>>*

> I do feel a little bit uncomfortable seeing that the latest version of > Rebol, in its icon .info file, has a date in 2001 that is prior to the > release of the latest version of the AmigaOS, version 3.9 + BB2 (Boing Bag > 2), which was released in 2002.

The "Don't Delete This" in the Rebol icon is to protect the NewIcons data embedded in the standard Amiga icon. It is OK to delete it if you aren't using NewIcons IIRC. Bohdan "Bo" Lechnowsky Lechnowsky Technical Consulting At 03:30 AM 3/3/03 -0600, you wrote:

On 04-Mar-03, Bohdan or Rosemary Lechnowsky wrote:

> The "Don't Delete This" in the Rebol icon is to protect the NewIcons > data embedded in the standard Amiga icon. It is OK to delete it if > you aren't using NewIcons IIRC.

> At 03:30 AM 3/3/03 -0600, you wrote: >> Hello Carl, >> On 27-Feb-03, you wrote: >> I didn't see anything in the tool types.

>> I do feel a little bit uncomfortable seeing that the latest >> version of Rebol, in its icon .info file, has a date in 2001 that >> supports up to version 3.1 of AmigaOS and doesn't support the 3.5 & >> 3.9 versions of AmigaOS. Bummer. :-(

>> Another point is that version 4.0 of the AmigaOS is currently >> being developed. Will Rebol support AmigaOS 4.0?

>> BTW, Carl, when you get that message in the .info files, >> chances are that you've got a virus. Do you run a virus checker in >> the background? If not, when was the last time that you scanned >> your files for viruses?

Hello Christopher, On 03-Mar-03, you wrote:

>> *Script: "REBOL Extended Definitions" (24-Jan-2000/2:53:35)* >> *Script: "User Preferences" (26-Feb-2003/0:22:12-6:00)* > REBOL [] > - Chris