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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 12:06:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 12:06:06 1985
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Help! I have adapted "jove" to run on an ibm or clone under msdos 2.0 and
up. Most all features of the unix version have been maintained, except
for those requiring child processes or shell execution. Some commands
have been modified to more closely resemble emacs. The program compiles
with C86 using the large model, and uses all available memory.

I am interested in making the program available to others but not without
the original author's permission. I need help with the following:

   1) A path or address to the original author, listed in the sources as
"Jonathan Payne at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School".

   2) Any information on the source origins. They come with Berkeley
2.9 unix for the pdp-11 in a group called "user contributed software".

Message-ID: <573@uw-beaver>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 13:34:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 13:34:10 1985
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Reply-To: fhsu@uw-beaver.UUCP (Sam Hsu)
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Summary: 


Jove is public domain.  Just leave the original author's name with the
sources.  When I got my copy from Jon, he specifically said "public domain
but don't sell".  Jon no longer supports jove - I tried to push back bug
fixes and enhancements on him and he said he had changed jobs and didn't
have time to support jove anymore.  There has been numerous enhancements and
bug fixes.  The version I got was for 4.1, which I have updated for 4.2BSD.
I believe this is the latest version he worked on, and I have added stuff to
it since then.  A version runs on VENIX, and I'm working to get it up on
IBM XT/IX.  I know Jon had it running on the BBN C-machine and their VAX.
I use it here on the VAXes (4.2, 4.1) and Suns (4.2).

Would the person at SIL and the person who got it running for MS-DOS want to
merge sources?