Devon,
I make a couple of changes to the j602 default distribution on my iMac -
a) I put the j602 folder in /Applications (rather than user/home)
b) I change (as suggested in the template) j602/bin/profile.ijs
to have the system files to go into user/Documents/j602-user
c) I make a a convenience alias for console e.g.
sudo ln -s /Applications/j602/bin/jconsole /usr/bin/ja
This arrangement works for other users on the machine, keeps their
stuff in Documents (the normal place) and is MUCH cleaner than in
past releases. I also add in my own profile (with simple, very
ancient, personal verbs) at the end of the standard profile.ijs. I'm
really pleased with the flexibility and clean installation of j602 in
OSX.
I find it very nice to use the Mac Preview application to view
Documents/j602-user/temp/plot.pdf and leaving that open on the
desktop while running ja (jconsole) in a terminal window, plots
appear automatically as you create them in the j session. One
advantage is that the rendering of the pdf file is smoother than the
normal j IDE - very pretty plots that scale beautifully.
In profile_template.ijs it is suggested that you keep an eye on
SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_ which may contain the locations you want for temp
etc.
- joey
At 11:16 -0400 2008/06/17, Devon McCormick wrote:
Members of the Forum -
I've recently been getting my normal J environment to run on a Mac, with
some success. I can run jconsole under emacs but have not yet figured out
how to get jee to run so that I can use plotting, etc. from my emacs session
manager. However, I'm still working on this, so I don't have a specific
question yet.
I have been pleased by the portability in most cases. The only real
problem I noticed so far was with the few Windows API calls I use. So far,
the only one that matters for my normal startup is the one that locates the
default temp directory. It's easy enough to kludge this by hard-coding it
in the Mac case but I was wondering what do other people do for the more
general solution?
Thanks,
Devon
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