ews00461@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (08/15/90)
If anyone has any hints or advice on using MacOberon, I'd like to hear them. I am fiddling with it, but I don't seem to be getting far. Is there some way to dump files to normal text files for printing ? Perhaps a way to print within MacOberon ? Thanks, Eric W. Sink
lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins) (08/15/90)
In article <49200001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ews00461@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > >If anyone has any hints or advice on using MacOberon, I'd like to >hear them. I am fiddling with it, but I don't seem to be getting >far. Is there some way to dump files to normal text files for >printing ? Perhaps a way to print within MacOberon ? > >Thanks, > >Eric W. Sink Since your specific question relates to printing I'll address that. The 1.0 version couldn't print. I believe 1.1 does by producing a postscript file. There's an MPW tool called DumpPS which dumps a postscript file to a printer. If you want to print using your favorite editor or whatever, change the file type to TEXT. Then your editor can open it. Delete all characters from the start of the file preceeding the word MODULE. MacOberon puts size info and other stuff here. This must be removed (forcing it to redetermine the file's size) otherwise you can't really make changes to it from outside of Oberon. Now for the hints :-) Personally, I continue to use MPW for all my editing. The facilities in MPW for search and replacement are so much more powerful than those in the current release of MacOberon that I only use MacOberon's editor if I have to make a small change from a syntax error. Anything more than 3 syntax errors and it's back to MPW for me! Now of course, I have a 5MB Mac II and so run MultiFinder all the time. :-) Be prepared to run into artifical limits in the compiler if you try to do serious work (e.g., 40 exported procedures - QuickDraw has more than that!; 64 global pointers in a module, etc.). So far I've been able to workaround all of them but I think the code would have been cleaner if I didn't have to in the first place. Oh, btw, the Ceres compiler has these same limits. -- Chuck Lins | "Is this the kind of work you'd like to do?" Apple Computer, Inc. | -- Front 242 20525 Mariani Avenue | Internet: lins@apple.com Mail Stop 37-BD | AppleLink: LINS@applelink.apple.com Cupertino, CA 95014 | "Self-proclaimed Object Oberon Evangelist" The intersection of Apple's ideas and my ideas yields the empty set.
aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh) (08/18/90)
What is the header structure in a MacOberon file? -- Aubrey McIntosh "Find hungry samurai." -- The Old Man 1502 Devon Circle comp.os.minix, comp.lang.modula2 Austin, TX 78723 1-(512)-452-1540 (v)
mfranz@ethz.UUCP (Michael Franz) (08/20/90)
Structure of an Oberon Text File
Text = '0F001H' off run {run} 0 len {AsciiCode}.
run = fnt [name] col voff len.
The header can be cut off, leaving you with an unformatted plain
ASCII file.
-- Michael.
Michael Franz Computersysteme ETH Zurich Switzerland
franz@inf.ethz.ch