[Oberon] Oberon System V5 - SETUP Key

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> thomas.kral at email.cz
> Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2016 7:41 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Oberon System V5 - SETUP Key
> 
> Just wish to share my little discovery, on Ceres-2 workstation there
> is a SETUP key, marking  a Viewer with a Star Marker.
> On FPGA Oberon System, with PC Keyboard attached there is no such
> key, but
> 
> Ctrl + Z
> 
> combination, places the Star Marker.
> 
> Any command accepting thus selected viewer can be used with *
> parameter, according to The Oberon System book by Martin Reiser.
> 

The F1 key can also be used to place the Star Marker on RISC5 Oberon. This, ctrl-z, and other special keys are documented in 'How to use the Oberon System'. You can download a copy of this document "UsingOberon.pdf" from Niklaus Wirth's Project Oberon webpage:

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5