I ls'd the j64-701/system/main/ directory and found no printf.ijs file. Why would JSoftware release a new v7 version of J without first upgrading the addons from v6?
Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:54 AM, David Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > Andrew, > > I don't have access to J on a Mac, so I cannot guarantee that the process > that > worked for me will work for you. But, I suspect that it will. > > What I recommend is that you install both J6.02 and J7.01 on your Mac. > There > are elements of J6.02 that are not currently included in J7.01. > > Some of the elements that are not included in J7.01 from J6.02 are mostly > or > wholly compatible with J7.01, but these elements have currently not been > migrated to J7.01. > > The printf script is one of those J6.02 elements that does not appear to > have > been migrated to J7.01. > > I have both J6.02 and J7.01 installed on Windows 7_64. After I saw your > question > concerning printf, I looked in J6.02 using "Find in Files" and found that > the > printf verbs were defined in j602/system/main/printf.ijs. > > I looked at the definitions of the printf verbs to see if I could see any > reason > why they would not work on J7.01 or on a Mac. I did not see any obvious > reason > that they were likely to fail on J7.01 or a Mac. I also noticed that the > printf.ijs script had a built-in test that validated many of the verbs and > formats supported by printf.ijs. I ran the test on J7.01 and the test > reported > that all of the tests ran fine. > > Based on that result and my own casual testing of printf verbs, I believe > that, > if you install J6.02, you will likely be able to load printf.ijs from J6.02 > while running J7.01 on your Mac and that will define the printf verbs and > provide you the printf functionality. > > At some point, some one may decide that the J6.02 printf.ijs script should > be > included in J7.01. Because of the decision to move many of the J6.02 > included > .ijs scripts from the main J system directories to the addons directories, > it > will probably wind up in addons/format or addons/general/misc directory. > > I must admit I had not bumped into Mitchell and Webb before. One of these > days, > I should start a web site (if it doesn't already exist) where all of us > David > Mitchell's could gather. Until the advent of the web, I had thought that > I had > a reasonably unique name. Since the web, I have discovered that there are > hundreds, if not thousands of David Mitchell's just in NY State. > > All the best, > -- > David Mitchell > > > On 10/31/2011 14:02, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > David: Are you saying that J701 x64 for Mac currently supports printf by > > default, or that printf must be compiled, or something else? > > > > What's your opinion of Mitchell and Webb? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > www.yellosoft.us > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:02 AM, David Mitchell<[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> The J6 version of printf (system/main/printf.ijs) seems to work fine > with > >> J7. > >> > >> I enabled the built-in test cases and ran the printf tests on J7_64 and > >> there > >> were no errors reported. > >> > >> NB. modify script to run tests. > >> NB. Test lines (change ^:0 to ^:1 to run test) > >> load 'c:/users/me/j602/system/main/printf.ijs' > >> Error count: 0 > >> > >> All the best, > >> -- > >> David Mitchell > >> > >> On 10/31/2011 1:32, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > >>> $ jconsole > >>> load 'printf' > >>> not found: /Users/andrew/Desktop/printf > >>> |file name error: script > >>> | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > >>> > >>> Specs: > >>> > >>> - J701 x64 > >>> - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Andrew Pennebaker > >>> www.yellosoft.us > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> 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
