sperling@acf8.UUCP (George Sperling) (02/13/88)
This is actually from Karl Gegenfurtner (karl@hipl.psych.nyu.edu)
The newest version of Jove (4.8c) is now available via anonymous ftp
from simtel20.arpa, hipl.psych.nyu.edu, and cs.rochester.edu. People
on BITNET can get Jove via simtel20.
The following files are on simtel20:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>
JOVEDOC.ARC.3 BINARY 168353 5E7FH
JOVEEXE.ARC.3 BINARY 320109 80F7H
JOVESRC.ARC.3 BINARY 237860 F574H
JOVEUNX.ARC.2 BINARY 228069 1CBAH
Jovedoc contains the online documentation and a formatted version of
the user manual. Joveexe contains the executables for IBMPCs and
compatibles, for generic MSDOS machines, and for DEC Rainbows. Jovesrc
has the complete source code in it. Joveunx is not needed to build
Jove under MSDOS. It contains files specific to the Unix version, but
the [nt]roff sources for the documentation might be of interest. The
binaries for a smaller version (medium memory model) are available
only via anonymous ftp from hipl.psych.nyu.edu (128.122.132.2).
Jove stands for Jonathan's own version of Emacs. It was developed by
Jonathan Payne (jpayne@cs.rochester.edu), and is actively maintained
by him. I have done the port to the PC.
Jove is currently available for Unix systems, for IBMPCs, for
generic MSDOS computers, and for the DEC Rainbow. A version for the
MacIntosh will be ready very soon now.
Jove is modeled after GNUemacs, and supports most of its features
(the extension language being the most notable exception), but is
still relatively small and quite fast. The key
bindings, command names, and variable names are in general quite
compatible with GNUemacs.
Some of the features supported are tags, parsing of compiler errors,
filename completion, comment formatting (for C), filtering of text
through arbitrary operating system commands, word abbreviations,
and the creation of backup files. New in this version are changing
directories within Jove (absolute pathnames), and support for editing
big files (about 25000 lines with a 640 kB PC).
The PC version supports different screen colors, the PC function keys,
and the complete IBM character set (8 bits). In particular, Umlaute are
treated correctly as parts of words and in case conversions. Ega 43 line
mode is supported.
Jove comes with complete source code. The Microsoft C Compiler version
5.0 is necessary to compile Jove on the PC.
Karl Gegenfurtner
arpa: karl@hipl.psych.nyu.edu
uucp {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cmcl2!xp!hipl!karl
usps: New York University
Dept. of Psychology
6 Washington Place 8th floor
New York, NY 10003