As per Apple requirements the J app is rooted at the app installation Documents/j folder.
This means within J on the iPad you see the paths that you talk about. But the leading / in those paths is a hardwired shortname for the full device paths you see in iExplorer. Given that you can move files back and forth with iExplorere it should be easy to do some experiments to get a better understanding. Create a file on your iPad and then find it with iExplorer and see how the iPad path maps to the iExplore path. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > First, in J/iOS, I get: > > 1!:43'' > / > > Next, I get, strangely: > > jpath '~addons' > /j/addons > > I say "strangely" because I don't path per se in the iOS Apps/J tree. So I > _still_ don't know for sure whether it means > Apps/J/Documents/J/addons, on the one hand, or else > Apps/J/j.app/Documents/addons, on the other hand. > > Similarly, I get: > > jpath '~system' > /j/system > > jpath `~user' > /j/user > > jpath '~temp' > /j/user/temp > > Now I do see directories > > Apps/j/Documents/j/addons > Apps/j/Documents/j/system > Apps/j/Documents/j/user > > and in j.app/Documents I see > > Apps/j/j.app/Documents/addons > Apps/j/j.app/Documents/system > > but _not_ Apps/j/j.app/Documents/user . > > This is still confusing as to what's where, since in both > Apps/j/Documents/j/system I have subdirectories config, defs, main, and > util whereas in Apps/j/j.app/Documents/system I have subdirectories defs, > main, and util -- only. I don't understand this seeming partial > duplication, at all. > > > On 7/17/12 9:13 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> What does jpath '~addons' or 1!:43'' shows? Or >> is it root jailed? >> > > > >> 16 ??? 2012, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> >Via a Mac OS X app, iExplorer, I'm able to access the file system on >>> >a connected iPad or iPhone. It seems that would be the quickest way >>> >to get J/iOS addons files to the iOS device. >>> > >>> >But where exactly in the J/iOS file tree should they go? >>> > >>> >In the iPad's Apps/j tree there (at least) two candidate locations: >>> > >>> > Apps/j/Documents/J/addons >>> > >>> > Apps/j/j.app/Documents/adons >>> >> > [NOTE: I changed the upper-case J I had previously shown in the preceding > lines to lower-case; it was hard to discern the difference between the > upper- and lower-case forms for this letter! > > > >>> >Which one? >>> > >>> >I want to do it this way because the method posted on the wiki seems >>> >tedious (and I cannot get it to work, in any case). Namely: using the >>> >posted script to bundle-up a single addons directory, insert it in an >>> >html, email it to myself, open the html on the iPad or iPhone, put >>> >the contents onto the clipboard, and finally use the jt script, etc. >>> >> > -- > 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<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
