Murray -

the single-word shortcuts are kept in "Public_j_", a two-column name-value
pair matrix analogous to PUBLICFOLDERS_j_ in J6.02.

It does seem complicated, doesn't it?  I think much of this has to do with
our own customizations.  With this new version, I'm attempting to reduce
the number of idiosyncratic verbs I define in my startup and to adhere to
the existing customs as much as possible.  However, I was dismayed to find
that the supplied "dir" verb returns information in a much less useful
format than my own simple definition "dir=: 1!:0@<".

Alan Kay had a good line about how we keep re-inventing the flat tire.

Regards,

Devon

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> Apparently my J701 installation is not finding any of the installed
> add-ons. For example, in the jhs browser window, executing
>
>       load'graph'
>
> gives error:
>
>    not found: D:\Language\j701/graph
>
> Where does one specify the location of such addons and the shortcut
> names to use in commands such as the above?
>
> (I don't see anything in profilex_template.ijs about that, and nothing
> at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J701. The links at
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Documentation all refer to J601.)
>
> Why must it be so complicated to just get all this to work? (It's as if
> somebody were deliberately trying to discourage new users -- or even old
> J users, such as me -- from using J.)
>
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