My solution, after a couple hour's digging and reading and
experimenting, appears at the end, after my original quoted message.
On at Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:46:32 -0400, Murray Eisenberg 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?
SOLUTION
I offer this in the hope that it might save other users a bit of grief
in upgrading from J601 to J602 in case they, like me, insist upon a
strict separate of the Windows system drive, J program files, and J user
files. This is for Windows (XP), but similar methods may work with
other platforms.
1. Create Windows environment variables:
system variable: JHOME [path for temporary files]
for me, this is e:\JTemp
user variable: JUSERPROFILE [path for the user profile]
for me, this is D:\Language\Juser
The idea is: (a) to keep all the user-specific script files of some
permanence in a location separate from the J install directory (of
course) and yet not in the user's C:\Documents and Settings directory;
keep stuff associated with Windows itself on one drive (actually,
partition), and stuff related to programs on another drive; and (b) keep
temporary files on a separate data drive from where more permanent user
script files are kept.
2. Create directories named in those two variables, of course.
3. Create subdirectory config602 of the directory named in JUSERPROFILE.
4. Copy profile.ijs to that config602 directory from ~bin, rename it
myprofile.ijs (for example), and modify the myprofile.ijs as follows:
change the line
home=. >(systype-5){(2!:5'HOME');(2!:5'USERPROFILE');'\My Documents'
to:
home=. >(systype-5){(2!:5'HOME');(2!:5'JUSERPROFILE');'\My Documents'
^
That's the crucial step, so that (under Windows) it's the Windows user
environment variable JUSERPROFILE that gets read rather than the
Windows-provided variable USERPROFILE (which points to
c:\Document and Settings\[username]).
For other platforms, that original line in profile.ijs has to be changed
accordingly. For example, for Unix, which has systype value 5, it's the
variable HOME that would need to be changed.
5. Copy ~bin\profilex_template.ijs to ~\bin\profilex.ijs (as that
template file suggests) and edit it to change some folder locations, e.g.:
NB. user=. home,userx NB. profile default - edit to change
user=. 2!:5'JUSERPROFILE'
temp=. 2!:5'JHOME'
config=. user,'\config602'
6. [optional] Create in the config602 subdirectory of the JUSERPROFILE
target a file startup.ijs that loads packages you typically use and
builds additional shortcuts for script names, e.g.:
buildpublic_j_ 0 : 0
ws ~user\ws
myutil ~user\myutil
)
7. Change the shortcut that starts j.exe so that its target is now
something like the following (which should be on one line):
D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe -jprofile
d:\language\Juser\config602\myprofile.ijs
There's one slight annoyance remaining: the file profilex.ijs MUST be
kept in ~system\bin, it seems -- at least if one redefines "config" there!
It is alleged that profilex.ijs "is not replaced by installs/updates".
Still, it would be nice to be able to keep it someplace else, such as in
one's user config directory -- but this seems impossible.
--
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
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