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From: Mike.Corby@f27.n253.z2.fidonet.org (Mike Corby)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Oberon for MSDOS Available
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Date: 31 Mar 91 19:33:08 GMT
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Hi Jon,

In a msg of <28 Mar 91>, Jon Guthrie writes to Rick Myers:

 JG> As it happens, there IS a place where the file OBERONM.ZIP is FREQable
 JG> from FidoNet (and he even likes points,) it's 1:397/2.

 JG> One crotchet about the file:  The documentation is in PostScript.
 JG> While I am sure that those people accessing this from usenet all have
 JG> 1200 dpi laser typesetters that talk postscript, most of the world
 JG> doesn't have anything like that.  In particular _I_ don't.  It would
If you can lay your hands on Goscript, you can print them ( after A LONG delay!)
 JG> have been nice to have a plain ASCII text file with the documentation
 JG> so that I could simply print it out on my (out of date, but still
 JG> hanging in there) MX-100.

 JG> In any case, I'll get down off my soapbox now.

P.S. OBERONM.ZIP is available at 2:253/27 in the UK....

Mike


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