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.