I believe the current j602bbeta addresses your concerns.
On any platform you can easily install j602 anywhere you want. Or move the J
directory anywhere you want at any time.
Each user gets their own j602-user folder in their HOME directory for user,
temp, and config files.
All platforms except for XP have a nice system defined HOME of the form
/users/username. The XP HOME works just fine but it seems awkward as it
C:/My Documents/username.
Users who are not happy with the default HOME\j602-user folder can easily
make a documented change to profile.ijs to get the folder of their choice.
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From: "Kip Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Beta forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Jbeta] j602bbeta
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:'.
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