CASTRO (was: Will this mail arrive?)

Oh, and where can we find this tool? Like, with ftp or http or something, and not just Reb ;) Thanks. --Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

**** I've send two mails last week and they still didn't made it to the list. Nevermind, they were just some bug reports (sent to feedback as well so I hope they've made it at least there). ** Well, this one appears to have made it. I'm starting to think that people should include a real-time stamp from REBOL just when they send it, so we can see what delivery patterns are like. Granted, you could check the headers, but sometimes I'm not so sure which time zone they use, if it's the time from the sender's computer or from his mail server, etcetc **** Yes, CASTRO, the [.r]ed Commander arrived right from Isle of Freedom to REBOL near you. ** *doh!* Clever! :) **** You can: show pictures read and edit text files browse directories (surprise ;) ** Any known limits on sizes of pictures and text files (what editor does it use?), or depth of subdirectories, and "funny-names", ie My Documents? **** you cannot: rename files delete files make directories (no problem to code it but it was 1:00AM and I'm waking up at 5:45AM ;) ** Yeah, those are relatively simple tasks. And I understand the, "It's 1am, so deal with it." ;) I do it too often myself. **** copy files (no problem for small files but copying some meg files using write/binary read/binary combo doesn't look very wise to me...) ** If I recall previous discussions on here, some suggested that you create a temp buffer for copying, with a size cap; create and open the target file, read in the cap amount of data (if there is at least that much) from the source file, then dump it into the target file. Once it's been dumped, re-fill the buffer from the source file, dump again, etcetc, until the remaining data is <= the buffer. I'm sure this isn't the absolutely most efficient method, though. I have yet to do it myself, but I haven't really needed to. The only large files I've really manipulated with REBOL were when I wrote a static download assistant to download MP3s from a friend's machine via http and write them to disk locally. **** Why am I releasing such unuseful tool? ** Because it has the potential to become useful? ;) **** 3. I don't know when I can enhance it as I'm pretty lazy and I like to start something but I've got problems with finishing 4. So anybody use it, rewrite it, enhance it... ** Yeah, that's the beauty of open source. At least, if you're willing to share your code. If not, then you're screwed ;) Hehehe. **** PS (to Piss Someone ;-) : I still don't understand why US government is still boycoting Cuba and in the same time supporting China. They're occupating Tibet, killing people on stadiums etc etc.. and what is Cuba doing compared to China? OK, Fidel's talking in TV for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours... ** *shrugs* The same reason we keep assisting poorer countries with money and arms and food and medical supplies, even though they usually turn those supplies against us (ie, Iran). But, we keep doing it. We're dense, I guess ;) Go figure --Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

I'm really sorry, it's on http://www.sweb.cz/rebolek/castro.r or sites/rebolek/castro and - if you does not have directories %/c/ and %/c/view/ then the script crashes so you have to change the sourcecode. it was written under View 1.2.5 (the new beta) so it may look strange in 1.2.1 ***

> Well, this one appears to have made it. I'm starting to think that

> should include a real-time stamp from REBOL just when they send it, > so we can see what delivery patterns are like. Granted, you could

> the headers, but sometimes I'm not so sure which time zone they use, > if it's the time from the sender's computer or from his mail server,

> Any known limits on sizes of pictures and text files (what editor

> or depth of subdirectories, and "funny-names", ie My Documents? > >****

> Yeah, those are relatively simple tasks. And I understand the, > "It's 1am, so deal with it." ;) I do it too often myself. >

> If I recall previous discussions on here, some suggested that > you create a temp buffer for copying, with a size cap; create > I wrote a static download assistant to download MP3s from a friend's >machine via http and write them to disk locally.

> Yeah, that's the beauty of open source. At least, if you're > willing to share your code. If not, then you're screwed ;) Hehehe.

Hi Bolek Trying to run Castro (BTW I like the name!) I got the following. I have no /c/view/ directory ** Access Error: Cannot open /c/view/ ** Where: list ** Near: pt: read path files: copy

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Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 08:20 schrieb Boleslav Brezovsky:

> I'm really sorry, it's on http://www.sweb.cz/rebolek/castro.r > > or sites/rebolek/castro > > and - if you does not have directories %/c/ and %/c/view/ then the > script crashes so you have to change the sourcecode. >

rebol665 wrote:

>Hi Bolek > >Trying to run Castro (BTW I like the name!) I got the following. I have no /c/view/ directory > >** Access Error: Cannot open /c/view/ >** Where: list >** Near: pt: read path >files: copy >

>Crashing on a reb-site? >why not >saving current directories, >entering ftp-urls, with seperate password-question :)

Hello, I'm working on CASTRO right now so I've uploaded work in progress. added and fixed: * does not crash on path (starts in local directory) * copy, delete, make-dir added (copying 5MB file takes less than second on P350 - good surprise for me) * four different languages!!! english, czech, german, spanish (starts in czech I think, just press [lang] button in upper left corner to select desired language - WARNING!!! All translation by me - it may really hurt!) known problems: * does not copy directories * deletes only empty directories * cannot rename/move files (if I want to rename file, do I have to copy it to same directory under new name and then delete old file or is there some easier way?) I'm now trying to implement ZIP and RAR support as I promised. Thanks for replies and interest

>Trying to run Castro (BTW I like the name!)

>> do %castro.r

> * cannot rename/move files (if I want to rename file, do I have >to copy it to same directory under new name and then delete old file or >is there some easier way?)

Hi Ashley, On Thursday, May 30, 2002, 3:04:15 AM, you wrote: ahca> You can use 'rename to rename files in the same directory (eg. rename ahca> %/c/view/a.txt %b.txt), but must do a copy/delete if the rename (actually a ahca> move) spans directories. Actually it depends on the platform I think.

>> system/version

>> make-dir %test/

>> write %testfile "Test" >> rename %testfile %test/testfile >> read %testfile

>> read %test/testfile

<SNIP>

>> system/version

>> make-dir %test/

>> write %testfile "Test" >> rename %testfile %test/testfile >> read %testfile

>> read %test/testfile

Hi Ashley, On Monday, June 03, 2002, 1:35:02 AM, you wrote: ahca> as "new - new name (not containing a path)" . . . instead of, "new - new name (not a path by itself)" . . . Maybe the help says this way because it is not guaranteed to work in all platforms? I think it does not work on the Amiga for example, where moving has always been implemented as copy/delete. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

That's not how I remember it. I remember doing renames in the shell to move stuff around on the same volume. (on amiga). That's the reason it's always implemented, because it's fast. Show me an example of renaming across a path that doesn't work on a particular platform, then I'll begin to believe it. Anton.

Hi Anton, On Monday, June 03, 2002, 1:31:01 PM, you wrote: A> I remember doing renames in the shell to move A> stuff around on the same volume. (on amiga). Hmm maybe my brain is starting to lose neurons. :) A> Show me an example of renaming across a path A> that doesn't work on a particular platform, A> then I'll begin to believe it. Dunno, it works both in win and linux. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r