--- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > [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: > > ==================== > 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_
I don't know how these are used, they seem to be from the pre-jpath past. It seems logical that the standard '~small' folders are defined in SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_, then canonically jpath '~small...' provides the mapping and use in other verbs is derivative of that. > ===================== > > 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? To be effective means that examples and references like load '~user/myfolder/myscript.ijs' will work regardless of choice of these folder locations. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
