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From: cla@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PCJOVE Questions (and a Re:)
Message-ID: <1990@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 20:24:37 GMT
Reply-To: cla@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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I have a few questions about JOVE (PCJOVE). First, is anyone "administering"
this software anymore? I thought I saw some documentation once where J.Payne
had said he could be reached until 1988 sometime.

Is there a version beyond 4.9? There are a couple of bugs that I have noticed.
I can't get the shell-command (into a buffer) to work. It hangs my 286. I've
seen it work on a 386. I don't know if that's the significant difference.
Maybe it's something in the environment.

 - BTW, "push-shell" is the way to run a DOS shell. I've bound it to F10. - 

Sometimes when JOVE has to access the disk during the middle of an operation
it "appears" to lose a line of data. The line is blank, but if I kill and yank
it, voila, it's still there.

JOVE hangs when I use it on an "EGA?" monitor (I know, it's lame, but I'm not
sure what this other monitor really is). I get a white screen and the PC is
hung. If I use EGA mode I get a 43/50 line font size, but the screen is only 25
lines long (half the screen).

Do fixes to any of these problems exist? Or does someone just need to show
me the nose on my face? :*)

I've made my own change to the way JOVE generates backup files (I like to call
it MOJOVE). It creates up to 100 separate "name".J00-99 files. It's sort of a
mimicry of VMS versions. It works great. Now, I'm trying to make it use "C" or
"H" instead of just "J" when it recognizes a ".c" or ".h" file, but I am
having trouble getting JOVE to recognize the new variable I've created,
"back-file-char".

Is there a "keeper" of JOVE out there somewhere?

I like this editor!


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     Chuck Anderson                uucp    :         uunet!isis!nyx!cla 
     Boulder, Co. (303) 494-6278   internet:         cla@nyx.cs.du.edu 
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