I don't know all the details, but -prompt (like a few others) is a flag to jconsole, not JE. It looks like these flags are processed by the front end and not passed on to JE.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:45 AM Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at the command line flags in my J session, I realized that even > though I start jconsole with a "-prompt" flag, I do not see this in > ARGV_z_. The other strings on my startup line are present, just not that > one. > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > We see this line from the batch file I invoke to run jconsole (wrapped): > C:\Pgm\J902\bin>..\jconsole.cmd C:\amisc\JSys\user\code\DHMConfig.ijs > -prompt -jijx -js "qts '' [ 1!:44 'D:\amisc\work\Poker\'" > > But once the session has started, this is what I see: > ARGV_z_ > > +----------------+-------------------------------------+-----+---+-------------------------------------+ > |bin\jconsole.exe|C:\amisc\JSys\user\code\DHMConfig.ijs|-jijx|-js|qts '' [ > 1!:44 'D:\amisc\work\Poker\'| > > +----------------+-------------------------------------+-----+---+-------------------------------------+ > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
