Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5) + How to get

[Erick Herring]

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