Ian,
Sorry to say that "I don't do windows" ... I have jconsole running in
Linux and Mac OS X. Since those environmnets are evolved from UNIX
(well DOS was too, but ....) they have always had multi-user
"terminal support" - originally a TELEX but later glass terminals
like the VT100 which is what PuTTy (and consequently issh) emulate.
The tiny font works fine for learning about j, but does require very
good eyes (or in my old eyes case, strong glasses...)
Maybe one of the (majority here) Windos users can comment on how to
set up a remote terminal session. I would be interested in that
answer too.
Meanwhile, if there isn't an easy answer to remote access to Windos,
I could set up a shell account on an old/slow Linux system for you.
If you want to try that, let's go "off forum" to discuss it.
- joey
At 18:37 +0100 2008/09/03, Ian Gorse wrote:
Hi Joey
Do you mind kindly elaborating on your process to do this?
With your recommendation I got myself issh but I have nothing to connect to.
How do I go about setting up jconsole to act as a server. I'm using a
windows platform if it makes any difference.
Is there any additional software that is required?
You mentioned that the font is extremely small, as I'm still learning
J, I don't deal with very large data so hopefully it won't be an issue
for me.
On 9/1/08, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...)
> - joey
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