[Jprogramming] J on Mac - versions of API calls for getting temp dir

[Joey K Tuttle]

Yes, I'm sorry - my bad... I did mean to say profilex.ijs and that is 
part of the good thing about the new distribution, even if I have to 
keep a copy of profilex.ijs and my custom profile. And although I 
think Devon makes a very good/valid point about such custom profiles 
leading to confusing posts here -- I do still like my simpler 
definitions...

Another thing that j602 does beautifully (when dropped into 
/Applications) is create a .jhistory file in the jconsole user's home 
directory. This provides, IMHO, a better session recall facility than 
the IDE... Memory/recall spanning sessions and having a readily 
available script file to edit is very nice indeed.

- joey


At 09:15  -0700 2008/06/18, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
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>>  From: Joey K Tuttle <jkt at qued.com>
>>  To: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
>>  Cc: J-programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
>>  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:09:53 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] J on Mac - versions of API calls for 
>>getting temp dir
>>
>>  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
>
>Isn't the intent to create profilex.ijs (note "x") by using
>profile_template.ijs as the template. The intent is that with
>a new version profile.ijs is overwritten, which you keep
>profilex.ijs to yourself.
>(However, on Mac folder drop will replace whole content,
>so there is still a manual step. But at least you won't
>have to merge changes in profile.ijs.)
>
>>     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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