Thanks Chris. I'd heard of such a thing and was wondering what it was called and where to get it.
Ian On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Clark wrote: >> Good suggestion... I haven't tried that. I imagine it would work ok. >> >> I must say I've been afraid to, while I have valuable work on-the-go. >> Bad things used to happen with APL+Win when you tried it, so I learned >> the painful way not to. Backing-out anything with Win2000 was like >> backing your car out of a swamp. And anyway in Windows with its >> registry you could never be sure that installing two copies of the >> same app wouldn't find some sneaky way to tread on each other's toes. >> It was sheer hell shipping anything tricky we'd developed. "DLL-hell". >> >> I'll guess I'll have to dust off my idle Toshiba laptop (which I've >> been finding excuses not to use... I'm so relieved to be rid of >> Windows). That will clinch the deal. > > No need to dust off your laptop. Just install virtualbox (or similar) on > your Mac and run windows in it. I pretty well only run windows this way. > > Chris > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
