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From: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5)
Message-ID: <376@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 22 Mar 91 22:38:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.172310.16847@tandem.com>
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In <1991Mar22.172310.16847@tandem.com> erv@everest.TANDEM.COM (E. Videki) writes:


>There are 5 data images which make up the Oberon-M(tm) binary
>image.  This image, once reconstructed, must be downloaded
>(in binary) to an MSDOS environment as the file name
>"oberonm.exe".	That file, when executed, will un-Zip 
>itself into the working Oberon-M system.

Please, Please, Please ... No self-extracting archives!  It can't be
as easily virus checked (although some checkers will do it).  Nearly
everyone has PKUNZIP on their MSDOS machines, so there's no need to
create a self-extractor.

Rhys.

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