[Oberon] documentation for ETH N-O installs

Charles Angelich cangelich at famvid.com
Thu Aug 22 15:57:49 CEST 2002


>From: muller at inf.ethz.ch
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:04:05 +0200
>To: oberon at inf.ethz.ch
>Cc: muller at inf.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [Oberon] ETH N-O Native/Beta directory display
>Reply-To: oberon at inf.ethz.ch
>
>Charles Angelich <cangelich at famvid.com> wrote:
>> 640x480 video display driver:
>> System track = 36 Oberon10.Scn.Fnt chars
>> User track   = 63 Oberon10.Scn.Fnt chars
>
>Since Oberon10 is a proportional font it makes no sense to
>count the number of characters.  Or did you mean Courier10?
>
>> To increase the usefulness of the
>> System.Directory display I have made the following changes.

I haven't viewed the displays produced by this newer code but
I'm guessing they scatter all over the screen in a somewhat
random fashion?

>Since 07.02.01, System.Directory on Native Oberon supports 
>additional flags.  This is currently only documented in
>http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/WebAlpha.html, excerpt below:

Not including documentation within Oberon installs seems to be
a reocurring theme.



Charles Angelich

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