on windows it is in bin subfolder to J installation.
On Thursday, November 26, 2020, 10:05:08 p.m. EST, Don Kelly <d...@shaw.ca> wrote: that is fine-but when a J program is running wild- how do I bring up "break.bat"? I would like to know how to do this, other than ctrl alt-del and then shut down J. Don Kelly On 2020-11-26 4:30 p.m., 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote: > there is also a "break" utility (break.bat in windows) which will stop a > "runaway" program/function when executed.. > > > > > > > On Thursday, November 26, 2020, 06:10:10 p.m. EST, chris burke > <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > > > > > > Use dbstopme to stop at a specific line, see the example below. A > non-empty argument is a test, so stop if true. > > Caution: if using 902 beta, get the latest beta and qt addon, as there > have been recent updates to debug. > > foo=: 4 : 0 > a=. 2 + y > dbstopme'' > b=. a * 5 > x + b > ) > > dbg 1 > 2 foo 3 > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 2:20 PM HH PackRat <hhpack...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I could have sworn that, a couple of months ago, someone posted some >> code that included a "stop" command of some sort in explicit coding, >> but I can't remember how it was done. I cannot find such a command >> anywhere in NuVoc. Searching the wiki brought back the >> "Vocabulary/JBreak" ancillary page, which referred only to the desktop >> icon for basically stopping a "runaway" program. >> >> What I'm looking for is a J command of some type (something like >> "stop." or some synonym). As I'm testing a program, I often want to >> stop ever so often without executing the entire program. "break." and >> "end." obviously don't work, since J won't even load a program that >> doesn't use those words correctly as part of a larger construction. >> >> All I want to do is stop the program in the middle without using a >> deliberate error (such as "13!:8 2") and without continuing to the end >> of the program. I would appreciate any help with this! >> >> Harvey >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
