AE can be downloaded from
http://www.nyangau.org/ae/ae.zip.
You get a selection of executables, and the one to pick depends upon which operating systems you wish to run :-
| Executable | OS | Arch | Notes | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ae_dos.exe
| 16 bit DOS | x86 | Hampered by the 16 bit DOS 640KB limit. | No |
ae_dos32.exe
| 32 bit DOS | x86 | Uses 32 bit Causeway DOS extender. | No |
ae_o16.exe
| 16 bit OS/2 | x86 | No | |
ae_os2.exe
| 32 bit OS/2 | x86 | No | |
ae_win.exe
| 32 bit Windows | x86 | Yes | |
ae_cygwin.exe
| 32 bit Windows | x86 | Runs under Cygwin. | No |
ae_cygwin64.exe
| 64 bit Windows | x86_64 | Runs under Cygwin64. | Yes |
ae.nlm
| NetWare | x86 | No | |
ae.efi
| EFI | x86 | No | |
ae_aix41
| AIX | Power | Compiled on an AIX 4.1. | No |
ae_aix43
| AIX | Power | Compiled on an AIX 4.3. | No |
ae_aix53
| AIX | Power | Compiled on an AIX 5.3. | No |
ae_linux_rh72
| Linux | x86 | Compiled on RedHat 7.2. | No |
ae_linux_rh80
| Linux | x86 | Compiled on RedHat 8.0. | No |
ae_linux_rh90
| Linux | x86 | Compiled on RedHat 9.0. | No |
ae_linux_fc2
| Linux | x86 | Compiled on Fedora Core 2. | No |
ae_linux_fc6_64
| Linux | x86_64 | Compiled on Fedora Core 6. | No |
ae_linux_fc14
| Linux | x86 | Compiled on Fedora 14. | No |
ae_linux_fc14_64
| Linux | x86_64 | Compiled on Fedora 14. | Yes |
ae_rpi
| Linux | armv6l | Compiled on Raspbian (Debian 9.8) | No |
ae_sun8sparc
| SunOS | Sparc | Compiled on Solaris 8. | No |
ae_sun10sparc
| SunOS | Sparc | Compiled on Solaris 10. | No |
ae_sun10intel
| SunOS | Intel | Compiled on Solaris 10. | No |
ae_osx10power
| MacOSX | Power | Compiled on Leopard. | No |
ae_osx10intel
| MacOSX | x86 | Compiled on Leopard. | No |
ae_hpux
| HP/UX | Runs on systems supporting PA 2.0 binaries. | No | |
ae_mips
| Linux | MIPS | Cross compiled from Redhat 7.x. 64 bit big-endian MIPS R3000. | No |
ae_iphone
| iOS 1.x | ARM | Cross compiled on Linux using unofficial iphone-dev toolkit. | No |
At this time, the author only has environments and compilers set up that enable the Active binaries to be rebuilt when changes are made. So the non-Active ones may be a few versions behind. Often these are platforms that are out of vendor support, or that nobody has cared about for many years anyway. Typically the rate of change is small, and the latest configuration file can be made to work with older binaries by removing any lines they complain about.
ae_linux_rh90)
to somewhere like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or
~/bin, or wherever on the path you consider appropriate,
and rename it to ae.
ae.ini to the same directory as
ae so it can be found, or copy it to .aerc in
your home directory.
AE uses your local initialisation file in preference to the common one.
On Linux, best colour and keyboard support is obtained using the
regular linux or xterm terminals.
On older RedHat distributions, the xterm terminfo entry may not
include support for colour, and you may have to set the TERM
environment variable to be xterm-color.
On AIX, best keyboard and colour support is obtained by using an
aixterm, or by logging in from OS/2 using
HFTTERM.EXE.
It should be noted that HFTTERM.EXE appears to have a bug
whereby it doesn't generate the correct datastream for the @9 and
@0 keystrokes.
On SunOS, I get best keyboard and screen support when using an
xterm or a vt100.
SunOS xterm and vt100 terminfo entries
don't include colour support.
xtermc is not xterm with colour.
On HP-UX, I get best keyboard and screen support when using an
xterm or a vt100.
When running aixterm or xterm its best to run
with the -fg white -bg black options.
This is because the Curses library and terminfo entries assume the
'original pair' corresponds to white on black.
If you use an xterm or vt100 terminal
(or something that emulates them), and the system terminfo definitions for
these do not include colour support, then look at the sample
xterm-color.ti and vt100-color.ti files supplied
with AE.
These can be added to the system terminfo database by root,
using the tic command (or tic_colr on HP-UX).
You would use them by setting your TERM environment variable to
xterm-color or vt100-color.
ae_win.exe to ae.exe, somewhere on the path.
ae.ini to the same directory as ae.exe so it
can be found.
AE is a Win32 application, which has had extensive testing on Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. Rather less testing has been performed with Windows 95, and quite a few bugs in the Windows 95 version of the Win32 Console API (used for screen redraw) have been identified and worked around. Some oddities relating to the use of the unusual screen sizes still remain. I would not be surprised if there are more problems to be found...
Note: As of Windows 2000, some newly created MS-DOS windows might have
a buffer with a very large number of lines.
More than the largest size AE can handle.
You can change the properties of an existing Window and the shortcut that is
used to start it, but there are settings inside the Windows registry covering
MS-DOS windows created without a shortcut, and there is no easy GUI way to
change this.
We bundle console.reg, which can be run at the command line to set
the default MS-DOS buffer and window sizes to 80x50.
ae_o16.exe or ae_os2.exe to
ae.exe, somewhere on the path.
ae.ini to the same directory as ae.exe so
it can be found.
ae.ico to the same directory as
ae.exe.
This allows AE to have a cute icon when running in the Workplace shell.
ae.ini
can be found.
ae_dos.exe or ae_dos32.exe to
ae.exe, somewhere on the path.
ae.ini to the same directory as ae.exe so
it can be found.
COMSPEC in config.sys points
to command.com or some other command processor.
This ensures 'shelling' out will work,
as AE uses system to call up other programs.
files=10 or above in your config.sys.
To use the 32 bit version of AE, you need a 32 bit processor.
ae.nlm to somewhere on the search path.
ae.ini to the same directory as ae.nlm.
ae.efi to a suitable directory.
ae.ini to the same directory as ae.efi so
it can be found.
| Date | Changes |
|---|---|
| 1989-01-15 | Initial version (Alpha-Test). |
| 1993-05-01 | Made Public Domain.
First official external release to Internet. |
| Various | Lots of development |
| 2004-01-04 | Added support for virtual folds identifying directories.
Fixed problem with very large numbers of buffers/languages. Fixed a problem with search loop detection. Added search_def_ toggling primitives.
Improved the status line. Linux versions now built on 2.4.20-8custom RedHat 9.0. Solaris versions now built on Solaris 8. AIX versions now built on AIX 4.3.3. Added initial .tcl/.jacl/.wscp language.
Fixed legal characers in filename in Windows version, again. |
| 2004-07-04 | Return directory listings in sorted order.
Return . and .. as non-open virtual folds, regardless. Linux versions now built on 2.6.5-1.358custom Fedora Core 2. |
| 2005-01-01 | Added .xsl and .policy to language
definitions.
Fixed unintentional display of -ve char values (Solaris). Extended max line length from 500 to 2000 on 32 bit systems. Added console.reg, to set 80x50 default Windows size
on 2000+.
Added AE_FULL_FN env var for other_shell,
if on virtual fold.
|
| 2008-07-16 | Added sample vt100-color.ti and
xterm-color.ti.
Added ldif language.
Added first MacOSX version. Added other key bindings that exploit AE_FULL_FN env var.
Improved ae.txt.
Added first iPhone 1.x version. Added search_ignore to avoid scanning
CVS and .svn subdirs.
|
| 2011-01-01 | Increased number of languages to 80, added a few.
Rebuilt on 16 bit DOS, Win32, Fedora 14, MacOSX, Solaris 10. |
| 2014-01-16 | Completely revamped the online documentation. |
| 2018-06-10 | Better placement of temporary files on Windows. |
| 2018-06-21 | When entering directory, step down past . and ..
Added scale and velocity languages.
|
Copying of this program is encouraged, as it is fully public domain. The source code is not publically available at present. Caveat Emptor.
The author of AE and this documentation is Andy Key.
(email andy.z.key@googlemail.com).
{{{ Andy