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Basic Script Calling Commands

 [1/6] from: benminton::austarnet::com::au at: 30-Oct-2003 17:58


Hi List. Today, I bit the bullet, installed another hdd. Reinstalled RedHat with a GUI. Got Rebol/View. At the console prompts >> , what is the command to call any script? I tried Do %script.r and got an Access Error Message : cannot find .... Does this mean that I have placed Library.r into the wrong location? Thanks in advance, Cheers, Ben

 [2/6] from: SunandaDH:aol at: 30-Oct-2003 3:55


Hi Ben, Welcome to REBOL!
> Today, I bit the bullet, installed another hdd. > Reinstalled RedHat with a GUI. Got Rebol/View.
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> Does this mean that I have placed Library.r into the > wrong location?
I'm guessing here: REBOL/View is in one location and the script you want to run is in another. In the REBOL console, try: what-dir to check your current directory. and then change-dir /xxx/xxx/xxx to change it to where the script you want to execute is. 'Do should now work -- but you may get a security warning as you are trying to execute a script outside of the "sandbox" (ie the folder that REBOL.exe is in, or any of its children). If you have downloaded library.r from REBOL.org and put it in (say) /rebol-lib, then you can: 1. do /rebol-lib/library.r -- to unpack all the scripts and build the search indexes. Then after that: 2. do /rebol-lib/run-librarian.r -- to run the librarian front end 3. do /rebol-lib/scripts/xxxx -- to run a script in the library Good luck! Sunanda.

 [3/6] from: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Dec-2003 22:43


On 30-Oct-03, Ben Minton wrote:
> Hi List. > Today, I bit the bullet, installed another hdd.
<<quoted lines omitted: 3>>
> I tried Do %script.r and got an Access Error Message : > cannot find ....
Yes Do's right.
> Does this mean that I have placed Library.r into the > wrong location?
Yes, or that REBOL's startup directory isn't where you think it is. At the REBOL Console enter... what-dir to see what directory REBOL is currently pointing to, and... list-dir to get a directory listing. If REBOL's startup directory isn't the one you want it to be, then you've probably just not entered its path correctly when you installed View. I've had this problem, and found it easiest to just un-install View then re-install it again. To un-install, enter... set-user at the Console and click on un-install. This won't remove View or any important files. All it'll mean is that when you run View again you'll be put through its install process again, including where its home directory should be. This should be entered in REBOL file format. ie %/home/rebol/ or whatever. Hope that helps. (Mostly written from memory, but I think it's correct.) -- Carl Read

 [4/6] from: antonr:iinet:au at: 31-Oct-2003 10:59


Ah a new linux guy. You may want to put these lines in your user.r for more familiar file system navigation: cd: :change-dir ls: :list-dir wd: :what-dir Usage: cd %adir/ Anton.

 [5/6] from: carlos::lorenz::bol::com::br at: 3-Nov-2003 19:19

Re: Basic Script Calling Command


Wow! How come I have never thought about this before? Thanks Anton Carlos Em Quinta 30 Outubro 2003 21:59, Anton Rolls escreveu:

 [6/6] from: antonr:iinet:au at: 5-Nov-2003 17:43


I don't know the answer to that, but I have made dir-utils.r, with more powerful cd and ls functions. I use them constantly. http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/library/dir-utils.r You can extract the functions from that object and stick them in your user.r or you could use my include function. Full example: site: select load-thru http://www.reboltech.com/index.r [folder "Anton"] clear find site %index.r do load-thru site/library/include.r include [ site/library/dir-utils.r [cd ls] ; there are other functions ] ; now you can use cd and ls in console... eg. ; ls/info Find the code in your public cache here: path-thru site/library/dir-utils.r If I were you, I'd also define a function edit which launches your preferred native editor. Very handy. Here's mine on windows. edit: func ["Open native editor" file [file! string!] "document to open in editor (can be empty string)" /local exe ][ exe: %/d/Anton/Dev/EditPlus/EditPlus.exe call reform [ either file? exe [to-local-file clean-path exe] [exe] either file? file [to-local-file clean-path file] [file] ] ] Anton.

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