Re: [Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Iverson
jconsole is used by other systems and you only get one and which one depends on the order of things in PATH. - Original Message - From: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Jbeta] symlink On 10/1/07

[Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Iverson
This message fixes the bad links below (jsoftware) as pointed out by Joey. I think I have fixed the symlink problem (again, thanks to Bill Lam). This will be included in the next beta, but if you want to try it now, download: http://www.jsoftware.com/download/jconsole_linux32.tar.gz

Re: [Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-02 Thread Joey K Tuttle
Please also include this retraction in the Mac distibrution. At 15:48 -0400 2007/10/01, Eric Iverson wrote: We got carried away with the new box stuff in 601. Just because the few linux systems we worked with had the same boxdraw font we incorrectly assumed it was on all. My guess is that we

[Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Iverson
Joey: My apologies. I was so sure that it worked that I skimped on my tests when you raised the issue. A symlink to jconsole does not work when moved to a folder in PATH and invoked with just its name. This is not the intended or advertised behavior. I will dig into this to see what can

[Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Iverson
Joey and all Unix gurus, Background is that I wante J Unix install to be able to work as follows: 1. everything (JFE, JE, etc.) in the J folder 2. no sudo move of anything elsewhere 3. no admin/root privilege required 4. no environment variables used or required This requires the JFE to be able

Re: [Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Iverson
. - Original Message - From: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [Jbeta] symlink On 10/1/07, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I am stumped. Is there a way in UNIX to know the full path to the program

Re: [Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-01 Thread Raul Miller
On 10/1/07, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless someone comes up with a unix insight you have indicated what I feared I must do. That is, iterate ARGV[0] that has no / over each path in PATH. The source code for which does this but it is unbelievably complicated and convoluted as it

Re: [Jbeta] symlink

2007-10-01 Thread Raul Miller
On 10/1/07, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I think it is generally a bad idea to put the J directory in PATH. I am not sure I see why you think this. If the J directory is added to the end of PATH, what problems arise which can not arise in other contexts? Thanks, -- Raul