Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5) + How to get
Erick Herring
herring at evax.arl.utexas.edu
Sun Mar 24 02:00:15 AEST 1991
In article <WVENABLE.91Mar23094443 at spam.ua.oz.au> wvenable at spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
>In article <1991Mar22.185222.27204 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>
>>
>> Ummmm ..... This has been discussed over and over and over ad nauseum.....
>> FLAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5)
>> WHAT IS IT????? There is no statement of what it is!!!!
>
>... and it was a platform-specific binary posted to a sources group ... and
>your flame, Doug, was a discussion posted to a sources group. I suppose
>someone else will find something to gripe about in this posting, too...
>
>Sigh.
No, Bill, you are absolutely right. Nothing to gripe about in your
posting. But these other guys that are flaming Mr. Videki are way
out of line. He posted the thing here because he was asked to. If
the individual you cited _read_ alt.sources.d or alt.sources, then he
would have seen (and probably flamed) the discussion of this compiler.
Mr. Videki, who I don't know from the Easter Bunny, has gone to a
great deal of trouble to make his implementation of the Oberon-M
compiler available. It is a compiler for the Oberon language as
defined by Professor Wirth. The target platform of Mr. Videki's
compiler is the IBM PCompatible running MS-DOS.
I am normally on the side of "label your postings or be shot out of
hand", but this particular posting was talked about for days before it
was posted. And he posted a readme as part 0 of 5.
In the readme, Mr. Videki said that he will be posting a
non-self-extracting version as well. So prepare your 'F' keys - you
know, the one that means Flame...
If anybody wants the compiler now that they know what it is (the
successor to Modula-2 BTW) the info is below.
How to get the Oberon-M compiler for MS-DOS:
From: erv at everest.TANDEM.COM (E. Videki)
Subject: Oberon-M MSDOS: How to get it
Date: 22 Mar 91 17:33:02 GMT
How to get the Oberon-M package
for the MSDOS environment.
Some (but not all) of the network problems have
been cleared up, so here is where you can
obtain my Oberon-M package for MSDOS at
your own fetching:
1) SIMTEL20
machine name: WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
Internet address: 26.2.0.74, 192.88.110.20
subdirectory: pd1:<msdos.pgmutl>
file names: OBERONM.ZIP
fetch how: anonymous FTP
unpack how: PKZIP under MSDOS
2) UCSD
machine name: ucsd, ucsd.edu, pop.ucsd.edu
Internet address: 128.54.16.1
subdirectory: ~ftp/pub
file names: oberonm.exe, oberonm.info
fetch how: anonymous FTP
unpack how: For oberonm.exe: binary transfer
to MSDOS, then execute (self
unzipping files)
For oberonm.info: ascii transfer
for human reading
3) ETH Zurich (may not be permanent)
machine name: neptune.inf.ethz.ch
Internet address: 129.132.101.33
subdirectory: Oberon/80186
file names: oberonm.exe, oberonm.info
fetch how: anonymous FTP
unpack how: For oberonm.exe: binary transfer
to MSDOS, then execute (self
unzipping files)
For oberonm.info: ascii transfer
for human reading
*** Note: ETH has not tested this package
extensively and does not claim or disclaim
its validity relative to the ETH Oberon
System. Keeping the files here is only
being done as a courtesy to European
users who want to fetch it from a closer
location. It may become permanent in the
future.
4) comp.binaries.ibm.pc
machine name: Usenet newsgroup
Internet address: N/A
file formats: 5 uuencoded "mail" messages
fetch how: capture the messages
unpack how: Instructions are at the
head of the first message.
*** Note: at the time of this posting,
comp.binaries.ibm.pc does not yet have
the files publicly available, but is
expected to relatively soon.
5) alt.sources
(same as in comp.binaries.ibm.pc , but
available here also by request from some
users)
--E. Videki 21 Mar 91
erv @ k2.everest.tandem.com
--
Erick Herring
herring at evax.uta.edu
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