km@cadre.ARPA (Ken Mitchum) (08/27/85)
The version of "make" for msdos which is part of the jove sources contains a bug. As a result, the program as distributed only works correctly under DOS 3.0 and up. Earlier versions of DOS will fail with a message like: Make: Can't Make 'fubar'. even though 'fubar' exists in the current directory. The problem is an incorrect error return in the function find_first(), in the file makeutil.c. Replace the following lines: srv.dx = name; sysint21(&srv,&srv); return(!(srv.ax & 0xff00)); } with: srv.dx = name; return(sysint21(&srv,&srv) & 1); } The result will work with both versions of DOS. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the above. Unfortunately, the contents of ax are slightly different in the two DOS versions. -Ken Mitchum University of Pittsburgh Decision Systems Laboratories (km@cadre.arpa)