JOE is a blending of MicroPro\'s venerable microcomputer word processor WordStar and Richard Stallman\'s famous LISP based text editor GNU-EMACS (but it does not use code from either program): most of the basic editing keys are the same as in WordStar as is the overall feel of the editor.JOE is written in C and doesn\'t have any dependencys other than libc. This makes JOE very easy to build (just \"configure\" and \"make install\"), making it feasible to include on small systems and recovery disks. The compiled binary is about 300K in x86. Note that JOE can use either the termcap or terminfo terminal capabilities databases (or a built-in termcap entry for ANSI terminals). The choice is controlled by a \"configure\" option. If terminfo is used, a library is required to access the database (on some systems this library is ncurses, but JOE does not use curses to control the terminal- it has its own code for this).Here are some key features of \"JOE\":