Something like Don's proposal would be welcome to academics who want a simple way to install J for the use of students.
I was able to use J in a Windows lab by having it installed on every machine in the lab, but getting J to work in a Linux lab was beyond my ability to explain -- there was no option to install it on every machine, only on a system serving the lab machines. There was also at the time a problem getting J to print on our Linux system, but that was a secondary issue. The important word above is "simple", and the important application is education. Kip Murray University of Houston Math, Retired On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Don Guinn wrote: In J Wiki <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/FrontPage> System/Library/Requests<http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Library/Requests?action=fullsearch&value=linkto%3A%22System%2FLibrary%2FRequests%22&context=180> I suggested a modification to profile.ijs that would allow it to support multiple users, that is, move the location of user and temp without requiring any modification to profile.ijs. Simply put a copy of profile.ijsin the desired directory to contain the alternate user's user and temp directories. When run by J as the first script to load, those directories become the user and temp directories no matter where the J installation directories reside. However, if it is run in the J installation directory, it works exactly as the current profile.ijs now does. The reason I thought this was important to do is that the profile.ijs could be used without any changes to support multiple users. I have not seen any response to that request yet. It seems to me that it should solve the problems discussed in this thread. On 11/3/07, Sherlock, Ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Raul Miller wrote: > > On 11/3/07, Sherlock, Ric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This location is not very accessible (hard to navigate to > > from Open & > > > Save dialogs) and other apps store their user documents in "My > > > Documents". > > > > Can't you make a shortcut to this directory and drop it > > wherever you find convenient? > > I don't have any problem making the current version conform to my > desires, I'm just trying to help make the installation as trouble-free > as possible for potential new users. IMO a lot of that comes down to J > behaving like other applications. > > In my case I just moved the J602-user folder to D:\j602-user (my "My > Documents" folder is relocated there) and then redefined "hom" in > profile.ijs to 'd:'. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm Kip Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.uh.edu/~km ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
