Hidden files are indeed sort of silly here. I was/am a little nonplussed by having to always explicitly supply the '~user/...' to find my files saved inside the j folder - I agree with your assessment of iTune's brain activity...
I do find that they persist over quit/restart (and presumably version update, although I haven't verified that yet). On 2012/05/11 12:31 , Eric Iverson wrote: > What VERSION are you running? > > je'' request an edit of a file named '.ijs' (that is empty prefix) and that > is what you are seeing. > > It should be an error and I will fix it. > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Brian Schott<schott.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Eric, >> >> OK, that works much better. I did not think of dir or fread or fwrite. >> However, after closing and reopening J only the dir versions of the files >> are still available, not the je versions. And when I enter je", I see : >> ~/user/.ijs . That looks goofy. >> >> --- >> (B=) >>> >>> d=. fread 'newfile.ijs' NB. from root of the J file system >>> d fwrite '~user/newfile.ijs' >>> je 'newfile' >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm