jpath '~' or jpath '~/' may work even under windows but that
depends on how do you interpret 'home'

Чт, 04 апр 2013, Ian Clark писал(а):
> Thanks Raul, and Bob.
> 
> Both work fine inside my app:
> 2!:0 'echo ~'
> 2!:5 'HOME'
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > ~user is the unix shell convention for referring to the home directory
> > of the user named 'user'.
> >
> > ~ by itself (or followed by a slash) is unix shell convention for
> > referring to the current user's home directory.
> >
> > Note however that these only work in contexts where shell wildcards
> > are interpreted -- you could run a subshell from J if you wanted that:
> >
> >    2!:0 'echo ~'
> >
> > Another convention for referring to the current user's home directory
> > is to refer to the environmental variable named HOME
> >
> >    2!:5 'HOME'
> >
> > Of course, both of these would fail on windows.
> >
> > FYI,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The pith's going soft here...
> > >
> > > How do I find the logged-on user's home directory on the Mac?
> > > (I'm still using j602 for this.)
> > >
> > > Hitherto I've been using: jpath '~user'
> > > ...but if I create a MacOS app, with its own embedded J, and dropped it
> > > into /Applications (the proper place for it), then what jpath'~user'
> > gives
> > > me is:
> > > /Applications/belcan.app/Contents/MacOS/user
> > >
> > > viz it can't see outside the "bundle".
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