The problem with your jdemo,ijs is that ) got changed to ) and this makes the script fail on loading. I should not have used the ) trick and will remove it.
Meanwhile edit you file to remove the bad ) as follows: *** create=: 3 : 0 NB. create page and send to browser ... hr title;css,js,B getbody BIS jev_get=: create NB. browser get request *** That is, remove the ) line. Resave the file and with luck you will be able to get running again. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > I, too, was surprised that jdemo.ijs had anything to do with starting > jhs. The context in that file of the line cited as offending is: > > create=: 3 : 0 NB. create page and send to browser > ... > hr title;css,js,B getbody BIS > ) > > jev_get=: create NB. browser get request > </div> > ) > > CSS=: 0 : 0 > ) > > IF I use the expedient of simply reinstalling the base J7 JHS system > from the beta page and running JAL for updating, will any of my > customizations be lost? At this point I'm not even sure whether or > where I put them, given that there seem to be so many places they could > go: > > J701\addons\ide\jhs\config\jhs_default.ijs > J701\system\config > J7-1\extras\config > > and then (where Juser\config701 is my personal config directory): > > Juser\config701\startup_jhs.ijs > Juser\config701\myJ7profile.ijs [old: November, 2009] > > I know I did some customization, but I find no docs on the web site > about how one does any customization; it must all be buried in and > spread across many messages in the beta mailing list. > > I vaguely remember some file whose name includes "template" that one is > supposed to use for at least some customization, but I don't know now > where that might be. > > Also, as I recall, there were several choices as to what kind of > installation to do, but it was unclear what to choose. I am the only > user and am an administrator (Windows XP). But I do absolutely, > positively do NOT want my personal config folder to be in default > C:\Document and Settings\Administrator\j701-user. > I insist that all my application data (except what's in the Windows > Registry) be on a partition or partition separate from the OS partition > (so that if the latter fails the former will not be lost, and to make > backup easier and quicker through modularization by drive or partition). > > P.S. Once again, there's something in the Beta Digest mailing that > causes it to be truncated somewhere in the middle. In the present case, > the Beta Digest was Vol 48, Issue 6. When I tried to reply to it in > Thunderbird, the quoted message was truncated just before the very > message I wanted to quote, namely, Eric's! > > Moreover, there were parts of the message that, curiously, displayed in > a lighter gray font color, running from the signature in my message (#3) > through Eric's reply (#4) but not including the quoting of my original > message at the end of Eric's reply! > > > On 8/6/2010 12:00 AM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > Not sure what is going on. Perhaps you edited jdemo.ijs by mistake. I > see now that is all too easy to do and the loading of the system should > not depend on jdemo.ijs being in working order. You could examine the > lines around 91 in jdemo.ijs to see if there is an obvious problem to > correct. Or you could post the 10 lines or so in that area here and I > could suggest a fix. Alternatively you could reinstall the base J7 JHS > system (from the beta page) and then do the JAL install of the latest > version. > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Murray Eisenberg > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > The other day I updated everything, including ide/jhs, to the current > > > version. > > > > > > Now when I run jhs701, it gives: > > > > > > :syntax error: script > > > : ) > > > :[-91] d:\language\j701\addons\ide\jhs\jdemo.ijs > > > > > > The file jhs.version in that directory says 2.3 and its date is > > > 4/13/2010. However, in Windows, file jemo.ijs shows date 7/30/2010 > but, > > > unfortunately, the file has no internal indication of date or version > > > number. > > > > > > I seem to be at an impasse of trying to update to latest jhs version. > > > > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
