[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

[Jörg Straube]

"Texts" - as everything else in Oberon - are extendable.
The "binary noise" in the beginning is normally used to code the formatting of the text (font, size, color...) but also Texts extensions are coded/hidden there, like eg. Folds and so on.

Plain ASCII files do not allow to do that.

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Jörg

> Am 31.03.2016 um 18:01 schrieb Dieter <d.gloetzel at web.de>:
> 
> Hi Srinivas,
> 
> I have been using ETH-Oberon for many  years on Windows.
> 
> Any decent editor like "notepad++" can deal with the apple-like "0AX" end-of-line-character.
> 
> When you are irritated by the binary stuff at the beginning , just remove it and save the rest as txt-file.
> 
> To my understanding the binary stuff serves only for formatting the text of the module.
> 
> Regards,
> Dieter
> 
> 
>> Am 31.03.2016 um 17:40 schrieb Srinivas Nayak:
>> The biggest confusion right now I have is,
>> why Oberon didn't use simple ascii text files?
>> 
>> None of Oberon files are open-able as plain ascii file!
>> Which extension in file name says that the file is a plain ascii file?
>> 
>> 
>> With thanks and best regards,
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Srinivas Nayak
>> 
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