[Oberon] ET; was Re (3): On Oberon Sources

[Srinivas Nayak]

Dear Peter,

Many thanks.
I found ET.Open working from Oberon0.Dsk.
I was looking for this.
ET.Open opens a file. I saw it uses .Store, that means System.Store.
Am I correct?

That may mean System.Store stores plain ascii text to a file,
but Edit.Store stores formatted text to a file.
Let me confirm this reading code!
[Not sure if ascii text is being stored to a file using converters internally!]

At least it makes sense that ET was available initially in Oberon0 to support plain ascii text.
And later on, after full installation, when more powerful Oberon took over the control,
we never needed plain ascii text files and so we forgot ET and used Edit.

I see that Appendix E in Install.Tool in Oberon0.Dsk says,
if you get a trap, do ET.StoreAscii and send the error report to P. Muller.


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

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On 04/04/2016 12:24 AM, peter at easthope.ca wrote:
> From:	Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com>
> Date:	Sun, 3 Apr 2016 23:05:50 +0530
>> ET is not found in basic system!
>
> It is in Oberon0.  If booted from Oberon0.Dsk or
> OberonCF0.Dsk, "ET.Open afile" should work.  Which
> of these bootable images do you have?  Please
> mention the number of bytes in the file.  It is
> booted from a real diskette or from a hypervisor?
>
> Regards,            ... Lyall E.
>
>