Rebol and file I/O; Rebol and 'Printing'

[jfdutcher]

Just looking for comment on what appears to be the 'fact' that Rebol Core/View does not have any process for interacting with persistant harddrive files except to read them into core in their entirety (binary) OR read flat files with a 'lines' option to bring ASCII data into Rebol
a record at a time. It does not read random files..randomly, true ?
Is there any way to interface a Rebol script with a desktop or networked printer and produce reports from a
Rebol developed file ?

[Guest_Paul]

You can use /Pro /SDK or /Command to access printer capabilities via the winapi and code what you need.  As for the file access - I would say that its very consistent with most languages.

Paul

[Sunanda]

There's some platorm-specific advice on printing here:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol...ead.r?m=rmlZMNS

When I need to create files that *may* be printed, I create them as HTML and use 'browse to display them to the user.  They can then use the print ability of their browser,

Sunanda