[Oberon] [Oberon]? Desktops.OpenDoc"http://--.tar.gz"

[eas-lab at absamail.co.za]

As previously noted, internet access is increasingly important
for any computing system.

Apparently the http transport protocol was originally intented for
the htm(l) display format ?

Apparently driven by the 'dumbing down' movement, where all is
doable from your browser (assumed to be MS-IE), much now, from
email to *.tar.gz is only available via http ?

As I remember, it was Edgar Schwarz who pointed out that 
Oberon.Text could be extended at:

MIME = {
	"application/msword" = ""
	"text/plain" = doc
	"application/wordperfect5.1" = ""
	"text/plain" = wp
	"text/plain" = wpd
	"text/plain" = pdf
....

This is a tremendous help (for me), not having to drop out of n-o
the get important material from the internet.

I tried:
....
	"text/plain" = tar.gz
....

 but it fails.

1. What is the background/history/justification/advantage for the
       various 'transport' protocols ?
2. How would I use n-o to fetch http://--.tar.gz ?

-- Chris Glur.

PS. 
As previously noted, I don't want to be a lone hacker on work
   that has potentially a wider interest. Ie. investigating Desktops.Mod
   for me is a no-no !

I had to use linux/netscape to get http://--.tar.gz

An interesting hack which allowed me to 'capture' wordperfect 
  {.wp, .wpd} to my n-o system (being exstensively used for legal
  archives, this is currently extremely important to me):

1. Norton Commander (DOS) can 'view' wordperfect files.
2. a TSR 'screen capture' will capture the ascii to one-file-per-screen.
3. go back to n-o and conveniently access the stuff in the FAT partition,
     moving it to a n-o partition while reading/analysing/colouring/
    script-changing to extract the meaning(s).

An example why n-o must retain DOS capabilities, until the 
'DOS-PC' is dead.

What needs to be spelled out is that for the completed process of:
   1. fetching the data,
   2. reading the data,
   3. understanding (extracting the knowledge from) the data,
there seems to me, no system superior to n-o for the all important
third stage.   But it really breaks the flow to have to drop out of
n-o to fetch the data.