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ehedman@meretrix.abo.fi (Eric J. Hedman) wrote:
> In article <4e3nqr$vtv@stork.qut.edu.au> Geoff Elgey <elgey@mortar.fit.qut.edu> writes:
> >Does anyone know of such an implementation?
> 
> Sorry, no. However, if you're familiar with the Oberon text subsystem
> a quick "port" to "o2c" should not require too much work. Coco/R
> relies heaviliy on the Texts module of the standard Oberon system. By
> writing a wrapper Texts module for "o2c" you should be able to
> "bootstrap" Coco/R in very short time. Of course, it's only a quick
> hack and nothing for purists, but with this approach I got Coco/R
> running under Oberon/F in less than a day.

I'd like to second this. You don't need the full functionality of module
Texts for doing this. All it takes is opening a text plus opening and
reading from a Texts.Reader. I think I did it once for a front end based
on UNIX command line.

> -- eric

Erich Oswald
Institute for Computer Systems
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
oswald@inf.ethz.ch