I am in the process of updating the mn program. The original purpose of it
was to aid in working with alternate number systems and I didn't care that
much about some of the incomplete and incorrect handling of things. The
version I am working on is attempting to make it more complete and handle
adverbs, conjunctions and user defined names better. And writing it has
turned out to be a good learning tool for me.
Give me a couple of more weeks and I'll update the WIKI. Or if you want I
can send you the somewhat improved but incomplete version I have now.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Lettvin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you, members of this forum.
> The responses have been eye-opening.
>
> ABOUT MN:
> "mn" is exactly what I want to aid in constructing script lines.
> Using it will prevent many stupid novice mistakes.
> I was busily implementing something like it in C++ but will now stop.
> J declared an error when mncode is loaded.
>
> Here are the filesystem actions taken before loading mncode:
>
>   - cd j602\addons
>   - mkdir 3rdparty
>   - cd 3rdparty
>   - copy ..\..\..\tmp\mncode.ijs
>   - copy ..\..\..\tmp\primitiv.ijs
>
> Here is the error:
>   load 'c:\documents and settings\jonathan
> lettvin\j602\addons\3rdparty\mncode.ijs':
> |spelling error
> |   'old new'=.x.
> |              ^
> |   replacetokens=:    4 :0
> |[-230] c:\documents and settings\jonathan
> lettvin\j602\addons\3rdparty\mncode.ijs
>
> Once it's working, it would be nice to have a single statement that did the
> following:
>
>   - display-mnemonics then execute-line.
>
> I will attempt to write this for myself, but welcome suggestions.
> It should be easy to write.
>
> ABOUT WEB/JHP:
> web/jhp fails to display images.
> http://olegykj.sourceforge.net/jhp/
> Choose "OpenGL Simple" or "OpenGL Dynamic"
> The intended image display comes up as
>
>   - a little red x in a little box on Windows XP running IE 7 and
>   - a disappearing little box on ubuntu linux running firefox 3.08.
>
> Here is what I intend to do with jhp on my DayNightLamp server:
>
>   - present image upload form to user
>   - upload size-constrained image (temporary maximum of ~100KBytes)
>   - process uploaded image with J script
>   - display original and/or processed image
>   - allow user to browse their own history of before and after images
>
> The preferred display is as follows, not as shown on the daynightlamp home
> page:
>
>   - If the mouse is off the image, the processed image is displayed
>   - If the mouse is on the image, the original image is displayed
>
> The intended use of JHP is to replace
> the existing PHP generating HTML to perform this display task.
> Here is a working example of this display task in action:
>
>   - http://www.daynightlamp.com/html/J/
>
> The image displayed on this page is output from an early primitive filter.
> Later filters make much better processed images than this.
> This is a work in progress, and all you see is pre-prototype experimental.
> The file upload form (but not the image display) will have this appearance:
>
>   - http://www.daynightlamp.com
>
> It will be nice to retire the old mechanisms I use and go to a pure J
> approach.
>
> Thank you again for your responses.
>
> Jonathan D. Lettvin
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