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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oleg Kobchenko
> My understanding that as of now there is no effective support 
> for separating code folder vs user folder for J. It is 
> expected that each user has a separate J installation.
 ...
> In true separated environment, the code would be in Program 
> Files or /usr/local/... and user data would be in HOME 
> folder, which is resolved from standard environment variables 
> (or overriden with special variable), e.g.
>   My Documents\J Folder\...
> 

At the end of /help/user/install.htm there is a section:

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Complicated Installations
More complicated installations, for example installation in a shared,
read-only directory, for use by multiple users are possible, and require
both system admin and J programming knowledge. The profile.ijs has to be
modified so that standard J user directories such as user and temp are
properly set. For example, the following changes to profile.ijs would
give each user their own temp and user directories in their ~/J
directory:

USER_j_=: (2!:5'HOME'),'/J'
TEMP_j_=: USER_j_
=====================

This certainly seems to indicate that it is possible to separate the
code and the user data. Others also report to have accomplished this
successfully (at least for single-user installations)
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2006-October/027969.html .

I suppose the question is what "effective support" means? Maybe although
possible it currently has undesirable side effects?
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