[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

[Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net]

I want to put this out to you Srinivas.  I wrote a doctoral dissertation
totally within the Oberon system.  I included charts and graphs.  I did a
significant amount of the data manipulation completely within that
environment.  I even produced a CD that would open on a Windows computer
with a Tool that was useful to read through the dissertation.  I was in the
process of producing a boot time CD with a view of making the Oberon
environment the formal method for UT to accept dissertations. The committee
went with PDF files and no reader environment, but that alternate future
was close at hand back in '99.

I would never want to move a document back to Unix.  It would feel like
cutting off my left hand.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I see, in the book OOP in Oberon-2, author describes about Plain Texts
> (Ascii Texts) in 11.3.1 while discussing about Oberon0.
> And he says Oberon0 is a miniature model of Oberon OS.
> This makes me think, that in Oberon we should be able to create plain
> ascii texts which can directly be opened in Linux geany or Windows notepad.
>
> Did I misunderstand this?
> I can't imagine such a sophisticated OS lacks of such a mundane facility?
> Or am I in a bicycle store asking for shoes, as one of our friend
> commented once?
>
>
> 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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