Re: [Jgeneral] FW: tutorial

2006-09-21 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Roelof I would do my own lab (Studio, Author) as I did. Very easy. The presentation can then be tailored to the audience and based on your own experience. Select carefully the minimum stuff that you want to pass. You will probably have prepared too much, if the audience asks questions during

[Jgeneral] Erasing locales in flwor.ijs

2008-01-10 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Erasing locales in flwor.ijs from http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DB/Flwor#flwor.ijs destroy is 3 : 0 coerase schema codestroy'' ) Is coerase schema intended to erase the numbered locales of tables? That sentence does not do it. schema +-+-+-+--+---+ |J|P|S|SP|SPJ| +-+-+-+--+---+

[Jgeneral] Canada and free software

2009-02-06 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Canada has a Request for Information (RFI) related to No-Charge Licensed Software (typically referred to as Free and Open Source Software or FOSS and also applicable to freeware).

Re: [Jgeneral] Teaching

2009-02-23 Thread Gilles Kirouac
On using primitive names, Alex wrote: there are dis-advantages and the most glaring one is the loss of tacit programming. Really? plus times minus plus times minus (plus times minus)f. + * - 5(plus times minus)f. 4 9 5(plus times minus) 4 9 That said, I see other disadvantages,

Re: [Jgeneral] Existe-t-il quelque documen tation J en fran ç ais?

2009-03-24 Thread Gilles Kirouac
To my knowledge, there is no current J documentation in French. Essentiellement cela n'existe pas présentement. Vers 1993-94, Alain Delmotte a traduit le Manuel _J Introduction Dictionary_ et il l'a publié; je lui en ai acheté un exemplaire. Cependant cette traduction n'a pas suivi

Re: [Jgeneral] J on the Palm Pre

2009-06-28 Thread Gilles Kirouac
However it may come someday ... On May 25, in http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2009-May/033013.html , Eric wrote: We don't currently build a J Engine for that platform (Linux Arm). The next release will take some steps that will make it easier for us to support a broader range

Re: [Jgeneral] J on Pocket PC (was:Array Based Languages)

2009-08-06 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Instructions are given on http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm . Please report where you stumble so that someone can diagnose and help. ~ Gilles -- Original Message --- From: DIETER ENSSLEN ultrarun...@shaw.ca To: General forum general@jsoftware.com Cc: General forum

Re: [Jgeneral] GB_Flip RNG seed

2010-02-24 Thread Gilles Kirouac
From: Jose Mario Quintana josemarioquint...@2bestsystems.com The authors of the Mersenne Twister algorithm (which has a larger period than GB_FLIP by many orders of magnitud) have warned for a long time about using directly these kind of random number generators for encrypting purposes

Re: [Jgeneral] Library loading failed

2010-06-06 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Heinz See the following thread: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2009-August/033252.html ~ Gilles -- Original Message --- From: Dr. Heinz Schild heinz.sch...@schild-partner.com To: general@jsoftware.com Sent: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:06:19 +0200 Subject: [Jgeneral]

Re: [Jgeneral] Will J run on plug computers?

2010-08-22 Thread Gilles Kirouac
On May 25, 2009, Eric Iverson wrote: We don't currently build a J Engine for that platform (Linux Arm). The next release will take some steps that will make it easier for us to support a broader range of platforms in the future. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Devon McCormick devonmcc at

Re: [Jgeneral] Keyboard shortcuts

2011-02-08 Thread Gilles Kirouac
I agree with this too. If a newcomer loses his session accidentally by hitting Esc instead of F1, there is a big chance he will go away at the next hurdle. And the probability of that next hurdle is 100%! A recent newcomer lost his session and wrote about it (xprogramming.com); real bad

[Jgeneral] Font size in JHS

2011-02-10 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Eric, Is it really required to specify an ABSOLUTE font size? css supports RELATIVE font sizes (http://websitetips.com/css/typography/). Is it to obtain an equivalent look on various browsers? The font size should be the area of THE USER, not the designer. Let me adjust it relative

Re: [Jgeneral] Interpreting a J script.

2011-12-13 Thread Gilles Kirouac
linuq@TosSaA70 ~/j701/bin $ ./jconsole -js a=.23 b=.3 echo a*b exit 0 69 linuq@TosSaA70 ~/j701/bin $ See also: http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/user/cmdline.htm The last example of the above page is incorrect. Someone to correct the User Manual? Chris? When reading the User

[Jgeneral] input log replica

2012-03-14 Thread Gilles Kirouac
My session blew on my nose. I would like to reproduce the steps of my session. With J7+gtkide, there is an input log. NB. if inputlog preserved between sessions KeepInputLog=: 1 Where is it on file? How often is it written to file? Is there a parm for this? When a line is

Re: [Jgeneral] input log replica

2012-03-16 Thread Gilles Kirouac
''' (restart your session for it to take effect) This won't help you in the case where you unexpectedly lose your session - you might still have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the realm of emacs for that. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Gilles Kirouac gkiro...@riq.qc.ca wrote:  My

[Jgeneral] J6 Require gtkwd; scripts in duplicate

2012-04-03 Thread Gilles Kirouac
JVERSION NB.MS-Win Installer: j602a_win.exe Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45 Library: 6.02.051 13!:0]1 NB. Enable suspension load'~addons\gui\util\cobrowse.ijs' |file name error: script | 0!:0 y[4!:55'y' y C:\Documents and Settings\GK\j602\gtkwd

Re: [Jgeneral] J6 Require gtkwd; scripts in duplicate

2012-04-04 Thread Gilles Kirouac
Thanks again Bill. Once more I had not restarted J after updating! Why not add a reminder at the end of the log? ~ Gilles -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jgeneral] How to advance chapters in labs

2012-07-09 Thread Gilles Kirouac
My question should more correctly phrased as how to select chapters in labs. Hi Chen It's unfortunate that this option has been left out of J7. The only short term remedy I see would be to use J version 6. Only a few labs use this functionality, mostly those written by Ken Iverson