Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!sunray!brianc
From: brianc@sunray.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Jove 4.12 ports (was Re: stuff)
Keywords: emacs cpu editors
Message-ID: <6063@sunray.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 14:34:32 GMT
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Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <6232@cbnews.ATT.COM> cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) writes:
| In article <1989Apr17.230643.21642@tmsoft.uucp> woods@tmsoft.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
| > If you are looking for a good "micro-emacs", I'd suggest Jove4.12 (not
| > easy to port to SysV, but hopefully the next version will be).
| 
| Hmmm...  True, I had to work at it, but I've got it working with SysV.  I
| guess I have to agree with you.  I would also like to port it to Turbo C.
| I understand that Brian Cambell (brianc@cognos.uucp) has done this and
| has diffs, but I have been unable to reach him (I guess, I've sent messages
| to that address, but I have received no reply so I assume that he isn't
| getting them).  Brian are you there?  Is there anyone else out their who
| knows him or can reach him for me?  Is there anyone who has the Turbo C
| diffs for Jove?  I know I can do the port, but it seems a shame to waste
| all that time reinventing the wheel.  If you can help, please reply - thanks.

I'm here.  I never did receive your message, but I did get some others
requesting diffs for Jove 4.12.  Unfortunately, the version I have
working with Turbo C is 4.9, which is also the latest version I have
available to me.  (Perhaps the README file should be fixed).

As I recall, the diffs were not that extensive.  Mostly fixing file
I/O stuff (like opening the temporary file in binary, and rewriting
directory search stuff).  Other than that, just make sure that all
routines which return pointers are declared as such (ints aren't the
same size as pointers in the large model).

I would appreciate it if someone could mail me the latest version of
Jove... we're unable to get it via ftp here.
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