From: Alexander Iljin <ajsoft@yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:08:46 +0400
The anonymous file will be garbage-collected at a later time.
Garbage collection for direct access memory is mentioned often. Is "garbage collect" the right term for this salvaging of a disused anonymous file? From: <Aubrey.McIntosh@Alumni.UTexas.Net> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:16:06 -0600
A Text is not a sequence of bytes. ... It is a sequence of "Runs" where each run has attributes such as font, color, length, ...
So far, so good.
... and a source file and the starting position.
I'll have to review that in the Oberon System book. Conceptually I don't understand why a Text should be attached to a file. What if a Text is created in memory and never read from or written to a file?
In this code snippet, the new anonymous file is created to fill that role.
With no offense intended, what role? What is the need or benefit? Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM, <peasthope@shaw.ca> wrote:
I'm working on a problem with POP mail retrieval which surfaced during the weekend.
The problem was merely a redundant blank character emitted in ETHNO POP3. Now fixed and documented here, second paragraph. Desktops.OpenDoc "http://142.103.107.138/OberonPage.html#Mail" Thanks Alexander and Aubrey for the discussion, ... Peter E.
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