The official ftp location for Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) is ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/moraes/jove/ Jove is an Emacs-like editor without Lisp. It is comfortable to use, small, fast and portable. 4.16 (1996 Mar 19) is the latest released version. The previous release was 4.16beta (1994 Nov 23) and before that, 4.14.10. 4.16 has been widely ported, it features LOTS of changes, fixes, improvements. Among other things, it should compile and work out of the box on most widely used Un*x and Posix variants, including AIX, BSDI, DGUX, HP-UX, Irix, Linux, OSF/1, QNX, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, SVR4, Ultrix. Considerable work has gone into making it easier to port (functional ifdefs rather than system specific ones). It now has simple mouse support under xterms, the documentation has been re-worked. This version of Jove also works under DOS, Win32 and the Mac with almost the same functionality as the Un*x version. jove-4.16.tar.gz is a gzipped tar file of the complete source for the latest released version. jove416.tgz is the same file, with a shorter name for more restrictive file systems. jove-4.16.tar.Z is the same tar file, but compressed. jove416.tz is the corresponding short name. jove-4.16.sit.hqx contains the Macintosh source and executables. jove416w.zip contains Win32 executables and documents for Windows NT and Windows 95. jove416x.zip contains 4.16 executables and documents for DOS. It contains all that is needed to run JOVE. jove416s.zip contains 4.16 source code for DOS and Win32 -- not much different from jove4.16.tar.gz. It's a file format more convenient for DOS/Win32 users, lines end with Carriage-Return Line-Feed and there is pre-formatted documentation. Some files (irrelevant to the DOS/Win32 versions of Jove) are missing. KNOWN-PROBLEMS contains a list of at least the show-stopping problems with this release, some with workarounds. Always grab a copy of this file when you ftp a new release. It might also be worth checking this file for changes periodically. jove.netherlands contains a different evolutionary branch of the Jove tree from Tom Hageman. His version is derived from 4.6. Tom's official ftp site is ftp.icce.rug.nl. (Our copy may be out of date) jove.atari and jove-vms.tar.Z are relatively old branches that were ported to those platforms. If you'd like to update these ports or port to other platforms, please send email to jovehacks@cs.toronto.edu. Jove is supported by a group of users. We can be reached by email at jovehacks@cs.toronto.edu. We welcome bug reports. We also welcome reports on porting Jove. We are even interested in suggestions for new features, but we are conservative in adopting them. Mark Moraes.