I am curious why have two separate user folders:
~user and ~User
--- Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Murray -
>
> I think my set-up is similar to what you want: I installed with the
> "system" option - under "C:\Program Files" (a convention I dislike intensely
> but follow anyway) - but retain my own code where I've always kept it.
>
> I do this using two "standard" mechanisms:
>
> 1) In my startup.ijs, I add my own entries to the PUBLIC_j_ global so I can
> load commonly-used scripts using a single word, and
>
> 2) I define my "User" (note the capital "U") folder to point to where I
> keep my stuff and use "~User" everywhere I refer to it.
>
> In the past, I've had my environment overly customized and am trying to get
> away from that so I can send other people standalone scripts that work
> without a special set-up of J.
>
> Another long-term "covert customization" on which I'm working is to submit
> code I find useful to Jsoftware so that they may include it in future
> releases. Much of the work here is weeding out functions I've written which
> duplicate standard ones in order to minimize the custom code I need to
> include.
>
> This latest release went pretty smoothly for me and I've been able to
> (mostly) get rid of my customized "jprofile", so I consider this a success.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Devon
>
> On 3/19/08, Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The J602 installer for Windows offers three choices none of which is
> > what I want: I want to install for all users, but NOT in c:\Program
> > Files. The best I could do was to install as a single user and to
> > select the program installation directory I wanted,
> > D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe.
> >
> > But I do NOT want to keep any user files in
> >
> > C:\[user]\j602-user
> >
> > but rather inside the the single Juser directory that I want to specify,
> > just like I always have before (with recent releases) by means of
> > suitable configuration files include a profile.ijs -- see below.
> >
> > I note that the installer did create C:\[user]\j602-user but except for
> > 4 empty subdirectories, that directory is completely empty.
> >
> > The J program shortcut I use has target
> >
> > D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe -jprofile
> > d:\language\Juser\config6\myprofile.ijs
> >
> > and starts in the installation directory, d:\language\j602.
> >
> > The myprofile.ijs referred to above includes:
> >
> > NB. create SYSTEMFOLDERS
> > NB. the entry for binary is added in boot.ijs
> > sep=. PATHSEP_j_
> > prf=. PROFILE {.~ PROFILE i: sep
> > add=. 'd:\language\Jaddons'
> > sys=. prf,sep,'system'
> > tmp=. 2!:5'JHOME'
> > usr=. 'd:\language\Juser'
> > cfg=. 'd:\language\Juser\config6'
> > hlp=. sys,sep,'extras',sep,'help'
> > hom=. (0&e. { ;&prf) 2!:5 'JHOME'
> > ids=. ;: 'profile system addons temp user config help home'
> > SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_=: ids ,. prf;sys;add;tmp;usr;cfg;hlp;hom
> >
> > And the version of startup.ijs in that same d:\language\Juser\config6
> > includes:
> >
> > NB. Provide global for environment var JHOME
> > HOME_z_=: (2!:5'JHOME'),'\'
> > TEMP_j_=: (2!:5'JHOME')
> >
> > This startup.ijs is what referred to in the entry
> >
> > STARTUP=: 'd:\language\Juser\config6\startup.ijs'
> >
> > in d:\language\Juser\config6\config.ijs.
> >
> > When I try to start the program using the shortcut as modified, I get
> > error message: "Error and no IDE window for debugging.
> >
> > What's wrong and how can it be fixed?
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