As Devon has pointed out the J-user folder is by default located in the folder the Operating System thinks of as your home folder. For Windows XP this is "C:\Documents and settings\username" and is in defined in the Environment variable USERPROFILE. If you don't want your J-user folder in your OS Home folder, then replace "home" with the desired path in your profilex.ijs (don't change the environment variable).
There are instructions on how to do this at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J701#CustomizedUserFolder Also none of this has changed from J602 and so the more detailed instructions at below may be of help. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J602/Special%20Installations On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:35 AM, 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? > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
