[Oberon] Oberon on the Raspberry Pi

[eas lab]

Think outside-the-box, like criminals do.
If the bus-driver passes your gate 4 times a day; when you tie a green-rag
to the gate, he can be pre-programmed to:
 IF SeeGreenFlag THEN <launch *nix [or any] commands>.

Even in *.Obj [binany executables] the <string variables> are in ASCII.
There's no good reason to transform then.

IIRC, my log-file which I started, when ARM:V5 eventually worked, was
still accessible, after I needed to power-down, to exit.
So my text must have been saved in a file.
If I'd know before, I could have saved <the dir info> and seem what had
changed. Unfortunately rPi lacks a RTC, to show the most recent file-changes.

==Chris Glur.


On 4/18/14, Paul Thomas Melville <ptmelville at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:58 AM, eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure, V5 doesn't know about *nix, but the designers know where the
>> file is saved.
>> And it won't be encrypted. If they can tell me where/what it is, I'd
>> expect to be able
>> to extract the near-plain-ASCII, and it should be easy also to make a
>> <formatter>
>> for reading in. I can read AosFS textfiles on rPi, with less pain than
>> using  Windows.
>
> PO2013 doesn't use AsciiCoder. Tools.Convert can be used to strip any
> formatting, which will result in plain text files. This way you will get
> plain
> ASCII without much trouble.
>
> You can read about PCLink is section 15.2 of the book. It is used to send
> or receive one file at the time from and to Oberon. I pointed out
> previously
> related tools used by emulator.
>
>> To launch *nix [or any] commands, you have a cronJob/timer, which
>> occasionally
>> looks at the files that V5 writes. Even it the underlying system can only
>> detect
>> the size or date change, that can be a signal.
>
> Cron is used for scheduling periodic tasks. For monitoring files on Linux
> provides inotify - there are multiple tools that are based around it. It is
> just
> better tool for this task, but I don't see how it helps in this
> situation and how
> it could be used.
>
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