[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

Bob Walkden bob at web-options.com
Sun Apr 3 17:19:31 CEST 2016


In System3 there is an EditTools module which includes various converters.

Note - they are converters. What you seem to want to do makes no sense. Oberon and Linux use different file formats.

B

On 3 Apr 2016, at 16:07, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> You mean:
>> how can I create a Hello.Mod file USING Oberon that contains ONLY
>> ascii characters of my code?
> 
> Yes. You took the words right out of my mouth!
> 
>> NativeOberon & LEO & V4 & BlueBottle/Aos [the only ones I know] can all write
>> ASCII-only text files.
> 
> How?
> 
> I clicked Edit.Open. Typed something into it. Then added a filename at viewer's title.
> Then clicked System.Store. I got the file. Oped in Linux. No Luck. It shows me blank!
> In Oberon when I open it, it has the same characters I typed.
> That means, I was not able to get a plain ascii file using Edit.Open in Oberon.
> 
> Same I did using Script.Open. No luck. Similar observation.
> 
> 
> How do you create a plain ascii file?
> I tried all these in OLR.
> Because it is easy to create a file in Oberon and immidiately access the file from /olr folder in Linux.
> Never tried on my NO in vbox, because I don't know how to exchange file between NO and Linux.
> 
> 
> Kindly refer me the steps to create ascii file, if you are able to do so.
> 
> 
>> Your question is WRONG.
>>  "do X in Oberon" is not sufficiently defined.
>> Which version/S of Oberon?
> 
> You are right.
> My mistake. I want to know how to do it in NO alpha 2.3.6 (and OLR).
> 
> 
> With thanks and best regards,
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
> 
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
> 
> On 04/03/2016 04:29 PM, eas lab wrote:
>>> how can I create a simple Hello.Mod file in Oberon that contain pure ascii
>>> characters of my code?
>> 
>> You mean:
>> how can I create a Hello.Mod file USING Oberon that contains ONLY
>> ascii characters of my code?
>> 
>> NativeOberon & LEO & V4 & BlueBottle/Aos [the only ones I know] can all write
>> ASCII-only text files.
>> 
>> When I transfer files between LEO and M$ or *nix I need to select
>> LEO's facilities
>> to read/write in those formats: 4 different commands from a popup menu.
>> 
>> NativeOberon could only do DOS.
>> V4 for Linux mistakenly did DOS, but patching the code to do *nix was trivial.
>> 
>> Your question is WRONG.
>>  "do X in Oberon" is not sufficiently defined.
>> Which version/S of Oberon?
>> 
>> == Chris Glur
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