JE

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

I noticed that there was some discussion of JE.  Due to the recent
disappearance of Yaseppochi-Gumi's power supply in a puff of smoke,
I'm currently working from a resource-constrained machine, can't
afford X, so I installed JE from the Sept 95 Infomagic CD-ROM.

A couple of warnings which may or may not apply to more recent versions:

* Don't install the supplied libc until you've made sure it's newer
  than your current one.  There are *no* JE-specific patches in there,
  it's just an update.
* The old mule has lotsa problems.  Get a new one (eg, from
  sunsite.sut.ac.jp) *as source* and build it yourself.  Configuration
  isn't too hard.  (You can ask me for advice.)  If you don't have
  60MB to spare building Mule, you can't afford Mule anyway.
* KON doesn't work right on most linux consoles until you do a "su;
  chmod u+s /usr/bin/fld.*".  Why the font loading program needs to be
  suid I dunno; maybe it's because the console is a device?  Or, you
  can just always log in as root (not me, I'm into safety in linux,
  and anything else that ends in 'x').
* KON doesn't like the GPM mouse driver.  Oh well.  No mouse under
  KON, at least for the moment.
* KON changes the screen mode.  This resulted in a severe
  maladjustment of my monitor.  But most modern monitors allow you to
  adjust for that mode and then it will automatically restore if you
  exit KON.  Not to worry.
* KON causes lots of screen flashing when there is a lot of console
  output.  This scares me a little.
* ASCII TeX (NTeX) lives in nonstandard places.  Ah well.  It's
  probably just as well, to keep the real TeX from getting overwritten
  (NTeX doesn't always work right, sometimes I need to use the old
  TeX.)

Regards,
Steve