Amelia - are you using the windowed J session? That is, are you running "j.exe"? If so, you should note that Dan's solution is to have you used a character-based flavor of J, "jconsole.exe", in order to more easily handle simple, character-based prompts and inputs.
To run in the windowed environment, it would be more natural to use a GUI interface for user input and output. Personally, I like the simplicity of the approach based on character input and output. However, people often expect a GUI-based interface. If you're interested, I've posted a (fairly) simple example of opening a window to query for a source and destination directory and wait for the user to finish inputting them. It's on the J wiki at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/SourceDestDir . Good luck! -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
