Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!herring From: herring@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Erick Herring) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5) + How to get Message-ID: <1991Mar23.160015.6843@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 23 Mar 91 16:00:15 GMT References: <1991Mar22.172310.16847@tandem.com> <1991Mar22.185222.27204@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 117 In article wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes: >In article <1991Mar22.185222.27204@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> >mcdonald@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@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: 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@evax.uta.edu