Murray -
I see this in "profile.ijs"
home=. >(systype-5){(2!:5'HOME');2!:5'USERPROFILE'
where
systype=. 9!:12''
Hope this helps.
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> In J701 profilex.ijs it says "home is HOME." But what is HOME? In a J
> session, none of HOME, HOME_j_, home, home__j_ have values.
>
> How is one supposed to change HOME (hence home) if it doesn't say what
> it is??
>
> In Windows (XP), I have environment variables HOME, HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH,
> JHOME. Is it one of these? How is one supposed to know?
>
> And if one of those, how access the environment variable's value?
>
> Where is this all documented? There seems to be zero docs as part of
> the downloaded installer -- except for the built-in J help which, of
> course, one would not access until AFTER the installation is configured.
>
> Basically, my problem is the usual one:
>
> - I chose the Custom option when installing, to allow installing the J
> system where _I_ want it.
>
> - I want to choose a non-default location for the juser tree, NOT
> C:\Documents and settings\murray\j701-user.
>
> And why can't the user be asked for the location of the juser directory?
>
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