RevNet installation

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jul 14 23:04:28 EDT 2004


Troy Rollins wrote:

> 
> On Jul 14, 2004, at 10:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> To open a stack over the internet, you only need this command:
>>
>>  go stack url "http://www.domain.com/mystack.rev"
>>
>> You can't run a standalone over the internet, but you can run stacks, 
>> which is what RevNet does.
>>
>> This method does not give you remote control over the operation of the 
>> stack, but the user can run the stack just as if it were located on 
>> his computer. Is that what you need to do?
> 
> This is something I'm interested in too, but haven't yet tried.
> 
> Doesn't RevNet do a download rather than a "go stack URL"? 

Yes

> Doesn't it have a little progress bar? 

Yes

 > And if so, does a "go stack URL" support
> some kind of retrieval progress status?

It does now.  RevNet's been around for quite a while.  Since it was 
first released Dave Cragg has made many great enhancements, among them 
the ability to get status messages from synchronous transfers (see 
libUrlSetStatusCallback).

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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