steve@aardvark.UUCP (Steve Willoughby) (05/17/89)
I've noticed a few people posting articles about using the JOVE editor on
MS-DOS systems. I'm running JOVE 4.12 and 4.9 on a Sun Workstation, and had
no trouble getting it to compile under UNIX; however getting JOVE 4.12 to
compile under Microsoft C (5.0) is being a real pain; I suspect that the
makefile isn't quite up-to-date and possibly some of the #ifdef MSDOS's are
not right... something... anyway, are there any easy fixes to get JOVE to
compile under DOS?
Or, better yet, are there any sites that archive the binaries for the MS-DOS
version?
Also, the copy of JOVE 4.12 that I got still contains the older 4.9
documentation. Does the 4.12 documentation exist? How about just a terse
description of the changes?
Thanks for the help,
Steve
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In article <117@aardvark.UUCP> steve@aardvark.UUCP () writes: >...however getting JOVE 4.12 to >compile under Microsoft C (5.0) is being a real pain; I suspect that the >makefile isn't quite up-to-date and possibly some of the #ifdef MSDOS's are >not right... something... anyway, are there any easy fixes to get JOVE to >compile under DOS? There may be some problems with the order in which various symbols are "#define'd". This is certainly the case with the defines relevant to System V. I never did resolve all of the problems related to defines and hence I apologized for the "hackiness" of my patches when I posted them. I have yet, however, to resolve the define problems in order to get jove to compile interactive-process support (i.e., run a shell in a window) using pipes for communication with the sub-process. There seems to be an unresolvable, or perhaps just an extremely-difficult-to- resolve, problem with the order of "#defines" and "#includes" in the .c and .h files. My Sys V patches, therefore, do not activate this feature. I received e-mail from Jonathan Payne in response to my posting of Sys V patches for Jove V4.12. He told me that he hopes to resolve some problems with his forthcoming "ANSI Certification" release. He said that he also hoped "...to make it run under msdos again." Appar- ently, V4.12 does not yet work under MSDOS, but he is working on it. regards, Larry -- Signed: Larry A. Shurr (cbema!las@att.ATT.COM or att!cbema!las) Clever signature, Wonderful wit, Outdo the others, Be a big hit! - Burma Shave (With apologies to the real thing. The above represents my views only.) (Please note my mailing address. Mail sent directly to cbnews doesn't make it.)
jpayne%flam@Sun.COM (Jonathan Payne) (05/19/89)
> >I received e-mail from Jonathan Payne in response to my posting of >Sys V patches for Jove V4.12. He told me that he hopes to resolve >some problems with his forthcoming "ANSI Certification" release. He >said that he also hoped "...to make it run under msdos again." Appar- >ently, V4.12 does not yet work under MSDOS, but he is working on it. > >regards, Larry >-- Josh Sirota got the IBM PC version of JOVE running again, I think for MSC 5.1. Also, most if not all of the ANSI C changes have been put in. The latest version of JOVE (but not quite official) is 4.13, available on cs.rochester.edu by anonymous ftp, file = pub/jove.tar.4.13.Z. Thanks, Josh, for making the PC version work again. Thanks, Hugh, for the ANSI C changes, and basic code cleanup. 4.13 also is doing a little better in the documentation department. In other words, all the commands and variables that weren't documented are now documented. That should help the frustration level. Thanks, me, for that little tidbit. I'm still toying with the idea of writing another JOVE from scratch, but, GOD, there must be things other than text editors, right? Have a nice day. JP
jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) (05/22/89)
If I'm not mistaken (pretty likely, actually), Jove hasn't worked under DOS since about 4.8b (I know that works). The later versions seem to compile but crash immediately after loading. I'm not sure about 4.9. Read the fine print in the installation notes. This would be a real loss if 4.8b didn't work as well as it does. I'm only aware of one nasty bug (fill-paragraph fills the entire buffer). <Joe -- Joe Smith University of Pennsylvania jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics (215) 898-8348 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059