🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,
a few quick questions...

After being busy with my thesis for some time, I'm now somewhat freer to
use Oberon again. Unfortunately, this freedom also comes with little or no
net access, so there is some price to pay!

I'm using OS/2 Oberon System 4, and also just starting to use PC Native
Oberon System 3 (beta 2).

I can't get Dialogs to work properly with my S4. Edit.Open Dialogs.Text
gives me a
   unknown element allocator DialogElems.Alloc

I suspect I'm missing something...

The other question is to do with i/o. I have all the books on Oberon, and
sadly, there is quite a lot of variation in the modules used for i/o -- IO,
In, Out, Texts.Scanner, Texts.Write. In and Out seem to be the simplest,
but are rather inflexible, e.g., whenever Out.Open is called, a new view is
opened, regardless of whether one is already open. Looking at the source
for In and Out, they themselves use Texts. I havent't looked at V3 for the
moment. The question is, is Texts the way to do i/o properly (even if it is
more complex)? and will that be portable between S4 and V3?

Please reply to mbhpfpj@afs.mcc.ac.uk since I cannot reliably get access to
the net more than once a week.

Thanks in advance,
Paul

--
Paul Floyd, Information Storage Research Group, Division of Electrical Eng.,
School of Engineering, University of Manchester
I don't work long hours. They are all 60 minutes, just like every one elses.
mbhpfpj@afs.mcc.ac.uk