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From: erv@everest.TANDEM.COM (E. Videki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Oberon-M ASCII Document Available
Message-ID: <1991May31.230127.22124@tandem.com>
Date: 31 May 91 23:01:27 GMT
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Over the past weeks I've gotten hundreds of email and non-email messages
telling me how much individuals have liked the Oberon-M package I've 
distributed. (Of course, a very few -- 6 -- people have wanted something
else, or misunderstood things as in the case of the one individual
who has voiced rather unsupportable criticism of the package here
in this newsgroup... I wonder why his mail keeps bouncing back
to me when I try to ask him what his problem is and why he never
contacted me about his confusion directly? If you know who you are,
please try emailing to me, for I can't find a path that works to you.)

One suggestion found in about twenty percent of my mail is
a request to provide the Oberon Language Report in non-PostScript
form.  Most of the other letter-writers seems to like PostScript, but 
some percentage of MSDOS users can't get to a PostScript printer
apparently.

So, I've completed a conversion of the language report into 
ASCII.  It doesn't format nicely like the PostScript version does,
but it is printable on any MSDOS-supported printer with a fixed-width
font.

This ASCII version of the report will be distributed the next time I
bind up the package to the distribution sites.  However, if you
just *cannot* wait and must have a copy now, send me an email message
and I'll forward it to you.  I'll respond as soon as possible.  
The ASCII form of the report is identical with the PostScript
form except for appearance on the printed page.


--Regards,
     E. Videki
     (Author of Oberon-M)
     erv@everest.tandem.com      or    erv@k2.everest.tandem.com