You would have to put printf.ijs there yourself. As you found, it is not installed there in J7.
I would suggest temporarily copying it yourself from the J6 directory to a J7 directory, perhaps your J7 user directory. As I recall the beta test and release schedule of J7, the reasons for the release of a 'unfinished' J7 were several: 1) The support philosophy of J7 was radically different than prior J versions, in my opinion. J7 is now essentially open source and depends on user contributions for future enhancements and even conversions of some of the previously 'standard' scripts. 2) The file structure of J7 was significantly different than J6. As far as I can see, the goal was to simplify the 'core' J as much as possible and move as many 'non-core' scripts as possible to the addons directories. 3) The elimination of the long time favorite 'wd' interface in J7 meant that many support scripts would have to be radically rewritten to work with J7. While printf does not use 'wd', printf may have gotten caught up in the general direction of J7 and left as an exercise for the user. See more discussion about this topic in the historical logs of the Beta Forum. Cheers, -- David Mitchell On 11/1/2011 13:23, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
