[Jprogramming] Where does ~ get set?

[Eric Iverson]

It depends on how you started J. The desktop icons created at install time
will always have ~ as the home folder. The icons in the bin folder might
behave differently. And if you cd to a folder and then run jconsole, ~ will
be the current folder.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:30 PM greg heil <gheil.j at gmail.com> wrote:

> i think it is the same as the "install" folder
> which can be set in a ZIP install within a
> profilex.ijs
>
> ~greg
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> from: bill lam <bbill.lam at gmail.com>
> to: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
> date: Jan 25, 2021, 6:43 PM
> subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Where does ~ get set?
>
> I think it usually points to user's home folder.
>
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> from: Devon McCormick <devonmcc at gmail.com>
> to: J-programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
> date: Jan 25, 2021, 6:18 PM
> subject: [Jprogramming] Where does ~ get set?
>
> When I do
>
>    jpath '~'
>
> >I'm not sure I like where this points to.  How does it get set?  It looks
> like it may be tied to the location of the j902-user directory.
>
> Devon McCormick, CFA
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