Hi Brian,
I tried a variety of ways to address the files and when none worked I looked at
the je definition.
je_z_=: 3 : 0
assert. 0~:#y
if. -.+./y e.'/.' do. y=. '~/user/',y,'.ijs' end.
if. -.fexist y do. ('NB. new file created',LF) fwrite y end.
smoutput'<ioscmd>ed ',y,LF,LF,~jpath y
i.0 0
)
I did try rewriting this to allow for the root files position but I couldn't
come up with the proper way to reference.
Late breaking news: As I was working through my reply I took another look at
that fourth line and by substituting '/file.ijs' for y … it worked!
I think before I had missed that the .ijs extension was required when the rest
of the verb is removed.
Thanks so much for your help
Cheers, bob
On 2012-05-17, at 1:00 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Can't you edit them by prefixing with '/'?
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, bob therriault <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> When I add files from my desktop through iTunes they are put in the root as
>> expected. The question is how do I edit those files? If I use je then the
>> ~user path is added and thus a new file is created, since the file I want to
>> edit exists back at the root.
>>
>> Solutions to my challenge could include:
>>
>> Ways to access files in the root from the J app.
>> Ways to move the files from the desktop into the user folder in the J app.
>>
>> I can do this by copying the original file and emailing it to the iPad, then
>> opening the email and copying and pasting into the new file using je but I
>> was hoping for a more straightforward approach.
>>
>> Down the road my goal is to be able to add the docs to the add ons within
>> the J folder and then have local access to the help files while running J.
>> (but for now I would just like to work with the files I have already created
>> on my desktop)
>>
>> Cheers, bob
>>
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