But frame 2 of the Plot Package lab already loads plot. Indeed, were 
plot not already loaded, then you would see no plots whatsoever. But 
plots DO begin to appear already in frame 6. It's only later, in the 
frame I indicated, where the trouble starts.

P.S. Once again, Thunderbird under Windows truncated the entire message 
from [email protected] to just the first one.  This does NOT happen 
with sequences of messages sent from other originators.

On 3/16/2011 12:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>     1. a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701 (Murray Eisenberg)
>     2. Re: a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701 (Brian Schott)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:34:04 -0400
> From: Murray Eisenberg<[email protected]>
> Subject: [Jgeneral] a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701
> To: [email protected]
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> Inspired by Brian Schott's YouTube video on installing J701, I finally
> got around to installing J701 64-bit on a new MacBook. After downloading
> and the dragging the J701 folder into the Applications folder, I fired
> up J701jhs, then in the browser window ran jal to download all libraries.
>
> To my surprise, when I tried running a Lab from the Studio menu, I got a
> message that no labs were found -- even though clearly they had just all
> been installed.
>
> It was only after I shut down J and then restarted that the labs were
> found, and I could now run them.
>
> Perhaps this is worth a little warning somewhere (or maybe it's there
> but I missed it).
>
> P.S. I got another surprise running the Plot Package Lab: In the 15th
> frame, input
>
>       plot sin */~ steps 0 3 50
>
> produced error message
>
>      too much data (chart url is too large)
>
> and in place of the expected graphic, a frame with an "?" icon in its
> middle. The same thing happened for subsequent frames 16 through 19.
> This is repeatable, so it wasn't some glitch.
>
> Aside from my own surprise, I should think this would be most
> off-putting to somebody evaluating J.
>

Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:59:17 -0400
From: Brian Schott <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701
To: General forum <[email protected]>
Message-ID:
        <[email protected]>
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Murray,

I  noticed the plot error message in lesson 15. I believe the lesson
said if you get an error message, then `load 'plot'`. Could you try
that, please.

Your comment that jhs has to be shut down and restarted is a little
bit of a surprise. If that can be confirmed, I will try to add a
warning in the video.


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