> (This reminds me of the time years ago that a student brought a FORTRAN > program to me that would not run properly. I read it time and time > again. And on about the 5th reading I realized he had typed an O instead > of a 0 in one spot.)
This brings back fond (?) memories. In an ALGOLW program I was working on which would otherwise compile I wrote a ";" instead of a "," (or was it the other way around?), but it was not obvious that that was the error from the pages and pages of misleading compiler error messages. On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu>wrote: > My fault (of course). Upon trying to load startup_jhs.ijs manually, I > looked more closely at the file in Finder and realized the error: I had > inadvertently typed a comma instead of a period to separate the > extension "ijs". Drat the small fonts on my hi-res iMac screen and my > older eyes. > > Thanks for the patience of those who responded trying to help me fix this. > > (This reminds me of the time years ago that a student brought a FORTRAN > program to me that would not run properly. I read it time and time > again. And on about the 5th reading I realized he had typed an O instead > of a 0 in one spot.) > > On 7/14/12 12:00 AM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Please verify that > > although it isn't loaded when JHS starts, that the following works as > > expected: load '~config/startup_jhs.ijs' And please report exactly the > > result of: jpath'~config/startup_jhs.ijs' > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:40 > > AM, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu>wrote: > >> > the problem ... persists. > >> > > >> >Contents of > >> > > >> > /Volumes/MacHD/Users/murray/j64-701-user/config/startup_jhs.ijs > >> > > >> >are: > >> > > >> >PC_FONTSIZE_jhs_=:'22px' > >> > > >> >And, to check, the result of > >> > > >> > jpath '~user' > >> > > >> >is: > >> > > >> >/Volumes/MacHD/Users/murray/j64-701-user > >> > > >> >Still, the font size is not being changed, no matter how many times I > >> >close down and restart the JHS server. > >> > > >> >And just to be sure, I added to startup_jhs.ijs the line: > >> > > >> >greeting =: 'Hello, Murray' > >> > > >> >And when I restart JHS, no value has been assigned to that noun. > >> > > >> >For some reason, startup_jhs.ijs is not being read during the startup > >> >process. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu > 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
