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- Version: OSH1-0
- Date: 16/1/92
-
- (1) Introduction
- ----------------
-
- OShell is a tool which provides interactive access to the OBST object
- base. There is a language called OSL which is based on the lambada
- calculus and defines the interface to the OShell tool.
-
- OBST is the STONE object management system developed by Forschungszentrum
- Informatik (FZI) as a contribution to the STONE project.
-
- [ Formerly, we used the acronym SOS, which led to a conflict
- with an object oriented operating system of the same name.
- Therefore we changed the name to OBST. As many people already
- use SOS (OBST) we did not change internal things like class
- names, environment variables and so on. ]
-
- Please mail to: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
- STONE Projekt
- Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14
- D-7500 Karlsruhe 1
- Germany
-
- or email to: stone@fzi.de
-
- Phone: ++49-721-9654-601
- Fax: ++49-721-9654-609
- Teletex: 721 190 fziKA
-
-
- (2) System Requirements
- -----------------------
-
- The installation has been tested for Sun4 running os4 and the C++
- compiler GNU g++ (version 1.39.1).
-
- You must have installed OBST version 3.2 (or a later version).
-
-
- (3) Additional Information
- --------------------------
-
- The directory <OSH>\man contains manual pages concerning the
- environment class and the OShell programm. Documentation can be found
- in <OSH>\doc\tutorial. The main LaTeX file is 'oshell.tex'. The
- tutorial gives an overview about the functionality of the OShell and its
- language OSL and contains an example session which presents the most
- important features. Type
-
- make demos
-
- to compile the files, which are necessary to run the example.
-
- As mentioned, the OShell provides a language called OSL. The directory
- <OSH>\OSL contains some programs written in OSL. For a more specific
- documentation about the programs refer to the tutorial.
-
- How to start the OShell the first time, refer to the manual page.
-
-
- (4) Bugs and Limitations of this Release
- ----------------------------------------
-
- - The current version of the OShell does not support overloaded methods.
- - After rebooting the OShell, the old container which contains the
- state information about the OShell won't be deleted.
-