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.
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