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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
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Subject: Re: Jove 4.9 or 4.12 for MS-DOS?
Keywords: jove ibm pc dos msdos
Message-ID: <6692@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 17:06:11 GMT
References: <117@aardvark.UUCP>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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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
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