[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

[Srinivas Nayak]

Dear Bob,

I see that there are some converters.
But how come Oberon isn't able to create a plain ascii file directly?

I am not sure if plain ascii file has a format.
I think, in a plain ascii file, the file content is just some ascii vale bytes.
And ascii text files have no header.

Am I mistaken?


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 08:49 PM, Bob Walkden wrote:
> 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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