One of the problems with being such a small community covering such a wide variety of platforms is that there are fewer eyes on the minority ones. As one of the few J emacs users, I'm familiar with this problem.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jim Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Finally decided to risk installing j801 on my MacBook. Printed out > system/installation/j801 - j Wiki. Downloaded j801_mac32.dmg. Copied the > J801 folder to my home directory. (Didn't know I could do that from a .dmg > file, but I must have for J602 and J701 I guess.) Noticed that the readme > file said I had the J801 Beta. Depending on where I go to find the release > notes I get either J801 or J701, which is disconcerting. Jcon801 and jhs801 > passed the "i.5" test, so I opened jqt801 and found help/studio/labs, which > failed with a syntax error in labs_run_jqtide. Yet another wiki document > told me I also had to run > install 'qtide' > So I did, and stuff happened, and I quit and restarted, but the lab error > was not resolved. (I ignored the profile script instructions assuming that > if earlier J versions worked from the same home directory, I should be ok.) > > Not yet as new user friendly as some of us dumb users need, it seems. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
