Would be neat to run a game on it. e.g. http://www.logicgamesonline.com/nurikabe/ Solver: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Nurikabe
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Patrick Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, September 1, 2008 9:25 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J on the iPhone? To: General forum <[email protected]> > Joey, > > Very interesting. I have an older iPhone (but with > the new 2.0.1 > software) which I've opened up using the "PwnageTool" -- a slightly > scary process. But it does allow you to run unix tools on your iPhone, > and ssh into it from your Mac via Wi-Fi, use scp to bypass > iTunes and > download arbitrary stuff to your phone, and also run some applications > not yet on iTunes, like MxTube so you can save YouTube clips locally. > I added pTerm but haven't used it yet -- but iSSH > looks like it > may be better. So this should allow, for example, me to run J in > the > console mode by logging into my University desktop. But the really > great breakthrough will be a way to run jwd. I'd really love to have > that available. > Patrick > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Joey K Tuttle wrote: > > > I meant to add to my remarks that this whole project took less > than half an > > hour when I became bored with the conversation in a coffee > shop... So the $5 > > application was selected, downloaded, configured (for 3 > systems), and used > > with minimal effort. > > > > In landscape, the tiny font only displays 80 columns, but line > wrap is > > handled very nicely so longer lines work out OK. Also, the > terminal (VT100 > > including vi support) has a buffer to remember a few screens > of the session. > > That coupled with .jhistory makes it easy to develop (fix bugs > in) a line of > > j. > > > > I think Eric's point about a personal web server is very good > too, and easy > > to do in the same environment that provides jconsole - well, > most such > > places... One of my jconsole systems is in a shell account on > a machine > > provided by my DSL supplier - I don't have permission to > configure a web > > server there, but jconsole is very handy. > > > > If anyone is interested, the application I bought is from > > > > http://www.zinger-soft.com/ > > > > and is published through iTunes. The author maintains a Google > discussion > > group which may have some good discussions (although I haven't > yet explored > > them...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
