Dear Sir: I use a Lenovo T500 with Ubuntu Jaunty release, Gnome. I had a difficult time getting Java to work, but it now does. My jwd works. I prefer to avoid these interactive program development environments. Instead, I use jconsole in an emacs shell buffer and edit code in a different emacs buffer. To test my routines in jconsole I use a line like this, for example. I can change the script then retest by reusing the line.
v n [ load<'v_definition.ijs' Anyway, here's my java version. Possibly java is required for the graphics libraries. ubuntu$ java -version java version "1.6.0_0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.4.1) (6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b08, mixed mode) My first programming language was APL, last millennium in the 70's. I then worked for a batch of years in FORTRAN, c, ANSYS (APDL), python. Finally I'm coming home along the Iverson path. Good luck, I'm going to force j upon myself and hope you do also. I've found the jfc manual to explain j best. But of course, as an APL programmer I already "got" the big picture am able to formulate problems as matrices and operations on them. Dave. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
