Oleg is correct, of course, that will find everything j602 ...
I put the j602 folder into my /Applications folder - the normal place
for applications. I also change j602/bin/profilex.ijs (a little bit)
so that j602-user is located in my ~/Documents folder (instead of
home) i.e. these lines:
user=. home,'/Documents',userx NB. profile default - edit to change
--- replacing ---
user=. home,userx NB. profile default - edit to change
this mainly to keep my home (~) directory "tidy"...
I actually prefer to use j in a terminal window (very nice one in Mac
OS). Since there is a "jconsole" (i.e. java console) already in
/usr/bin, I make a symbolic link like -
sudo ln -s /Applications/j602/bin/jconsole /usr/bin/ja
then, in any terminal window (or #! script) I can just use ja to invoke j.
Lots of possible variations on this. For historic reasons (partly to
match Linux conventions) I made a /usr/loca/bin on my Mac and put it
into my PATH in login profile. Then, without using sudo, I can add
links like the above or #! scripts that become available in the
Terminal.app. The session log ( ~/.jhistory ) is a very convenient
artifact of jconsole support. You can do plots and a PDF is written
into the j602-user/temp/plot.pdf file (lovely) etc. etc.
- joey
At 11:40 -0800 2009/02/12, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
>Cmd+Space ... j602
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>> From: Tracy Harms <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:20:00 PM
>> Subject: [Jgeneral] Using J on a Mac
>>
>> Having learned to work with J under Windows and Linux, now I want to
>> use it on the Mac OS. I successfully installed it (a total breeze),
>> and was able to run it just fine. After rebooting the machine,
>> however, I've not been able to find the J environment! I have the
>> j602-user folder easily available, but can't track down the other side
>> of the package. It would be pretty if it were in the Developer folder
>> on the HD, but I don't really care where it is, so long as I can find
>> and use it.
>>
>> I suspect there are also "tricks" or practices I should take advantage
>> of to make J easier under this OS. My searching on the J wiki was
>> unsuccessful. What have I missed?
>>
>> --
> > Tracy
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