If such basic defined names are buried in stdlib.ijs, then how is a J newcomer or rusty J old-timer supposed to find out about it?
Doesn't the J community care any more about such folks? Murray On 26 May 2013 12:17:55 -0500, Tom Arneson <t...@tomarneson.com> wrote: > The file verbs (fread, fwrite, f...) are defined in > 'system/main/stdlib.ijs'. It is a file of 2500+ lines without any NB. > comments > > -----Original Message----- > From: general-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com > [mailto:general-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Murray Eisenberg > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:59 > To: gene...@jsoftware.com > Subject: [Jgeneral] Where is files.ijs and how get its documentation? > > In J801, where is files.ijs and how does one get its documentation? > > I did the following: > > load 'files' N.B. no error results > load 'scriptdoc' > scriptdoc 'files' > -1 > > I searched for files.ijs but didn't find it. I looked on the j wiki at > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/j701 but didn't find anything about it > there. > > Is there some documentation somewhere on such basic defined functions as in > files.ijs? Where? (And how is a user supposed to find it???) --- Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (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
