---Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > It's the opposite: why would one want another special root > for something which is merely a parent folder ~user/.. ? > Which may be quite irrelevant esp if ~user is assigned to drive root. > > Quite another matter, is finding true user home if j-user is > relocated away for accessing other things like Pictures etc.
I agree with what your point in general, but in my case (with a relocated My Documents in XP), D:\ is actually the parent folder for all my other resources such as Pictures etc too (not on c:\documents and settings\ric). > On Nov 4, 2007, at 15:58, "Sherlock, Ric" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---Eric Iverson wrote: > I think it is a mistake to change the profile.ijs definition > of ~home as this comes directly from system definitions. > > You can easily provide your own definition for ~user without > messing with ~home. > > I would like to understand the reasoning for this better. Am > I right in saying you are suggesting that it would be better > to leave ~home pointing to "c:\program files\documents and > settings\ric" and redefine ~user to point to "d:\j602-user"? > > Apart from semantics of leaving ~home alone because it is a > Windows defined location, is there a practical reason that I > shouldn't redefine it? > > >From my point of view (i.e. that j602-user should be stored in My > Documents because, like Joey, I think of my source scripts as > documents) I want ~home to point to the location that > contains my j602-user folder. > Ideally I should locate ~home as Oleg suggests by reading the > Registry key, because this would handle my relocated My > Documents folder. But in my previous ignorance of this > setting and because it seems overkill for my single-user > laptop, I have opted just to point ~home to 'D:'. > > Currently I don't see any value in having ~home pointed at a > folder that doesn't have any significance for me in terms of > J. Does ~home get used by J for anything other than as a base > for ~user? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
