[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Bob Walkden
> Sent: Monday, 4 April 2016 7:29 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] On Oberon Sources
> 
> On 3 Apr 2016, at 22:17, Peter Matthias <PeterMatthias at web.de> wrote:
> > Your questions are right if you see Oberon as a closed system.
> However, if you run it e.g. on top of Linux, why should you prevent
> someone using Oberon as his favourite text editor or programming
> environment for other lanuages?


> You shouldn't - that's exchanging data with other systems.
> 
> A hypothetical command such as ebcdic.edit c:/mydata.txt reads a text
> file, converting it to an Oberon text. When you execute ebcdic.save
> it stores the Oberon text back in c:/mydata.txt, converting it on the
> way.
> 
> This is no different from Word reading and storing a rtf file, or
> Excel ditto a csv file.
> 

Exactly! 

All of these recent issues seem to be confined to the Linux version of
Oberon. I currently have the Windows version configured with each pane as a
separate Window. In that mode there is an 'Ascii' menu on each menu which
has the following options:

Store Ascii
Store Unicode
Store Unix
Store Mac

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com