[comp.emacs] JOVE for UNIX/MSDOS/IBM PC's is now available.

jpayne@cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne) (10/11/87)

Thanks to Karl Gegenfurtner (karl@hipl.psych.nyu.edu), JOVE version 4.8
for UNIX and IBM PC's and generic MSDOS computers is now available.  On
cs.rochester.edu you can ftp public/jove.tar.4.8 logging in as
anonymous.  This is just a tar file with UNIX file names, but contains
all the source and documentation necessary to compile JOVE for either
UNIX or IBM PC's, etc.

Available at hipl.psych.nyu.edu (128.122.132.2) is a more complete
distribution, including binaries for the PC versions of JOVE.

Here's Karl's description of all the files available at hipl:

JOVEEXE.ARC:
 Contains executables for IBM PC's and generic MSDOS computers. PCJOVE
 will run on any ROM Bios compatibel clone. MSJOVE uses only DOS
 function calls, and should run on any computer running MSDOS.
 The version of MAKE that is included can be used to build the executables 
 from the sources. The public domain NDMAKE will also do the job, but
 the MAKE that comes with the Microsoft C Compiler doesn't work with
 the makefile (of course not). MTERMLIB is a library that is needed to
 build MSJOVE. It is not provided with the sources. README.DOS
 describes the differences between PCJOVE and JOVE running under Unix.
 It also describes the environment variables that are used under
 MSDOS.

JOVEDOC.ARC:
 Contains the documentation, preprocessed with nroff. That way it can
 be viewed on the screen, or printed on a lineprinter. It also
 contains the online documentation that PCJOVE uses, a manual page for
 JOVE, and TEACHJ, a short file that's for JOVE beginners.

JOVESRC.ARC:
 Contains all the source files that are neccessary to compile JOVE
 under MSDOS. Please note, that a recent version (4.0 or 3.0) of the
 Microsoft C Compiler is neccessary for that. Other compilers won't
 compile JOVE in it's current state.

JOVEUNX.ARC:
 This file contains all files that are neccessary to compile JOVE
 under Unix, but not under MSDOS. It contains one big file,
 JOVEUNX.TAR, which can be extracted with tar to produce the single
 files. This was done to preserve some long Unix-style filenames, that
 cannot be handled by arc. It also includes the [tn]roff sources for the
 documents described above. 


I will be looking to distribute the sources or diffs from version 4.7 to
comp.sources.unix, depending on what the moderator wants to do.  I will send
another message when all that becomes clear.  Other than that, go for
it.  Bugs as usual to jpayne@cs.rochester.edu.  Any PC bugs I can't
understand I will forward to Karl.

Jonathan Payne

P.S.  I got mail from many people - I replied to everyone, but some of
them bounced, and I couldn't figure out a return path.  Sorry 'bout that.