[Oberon] all in one git tree

[Paul Reed]

On 2020-12-31 11:17, D EMARD wrote:
> ... if once it wants to exchange data over network, conversion of text 
> to
> plain ascii seems like a good idea.

Right, it's important to distinguish between interchange formats and 
internal ones, especially since Project Oberon deliberately and 
provocatively challenges the status quo (even now!), providing 
corresponding, but not necessarily compatible, formats, protocols and 
algorithms compared with prevailing systems. I often notice that Project 
Oberon is criticised as if it should somehow be one of the latter type 
of systems... :)

On the other hand, for convenience, sometimes external formats are 
supported even if they don't quite fit with the philosophy. When 
publishing the source code on the web, we use .Mod.txt because this is 
Oberon text converted to ASCII text for the purposes of 
interoperability. But in fact, if you use PCLink to transfer such an 
ASCII file into the Oberon system verbatim, it will indeed compile, if 
it has DOS (CRLF) line endings, because opening this kind of text in the 
Oberon system is treated as a special case (and always has been).

However, it may be that when downloading the ASCII file onto a 
Unix/Linux system it gets LF line endings, so then this compatibility 
inside Oberon doesn't work. The world is complicated - Oberon is not. 
;-)

HTH,
Paul