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From: dean@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: J, Version 2.9
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.212139.124@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 03:21:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.172035.18059@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb24.200545.21350@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
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In article <1991Feb24.200545.21350@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
> In article <1991Feb22.172035.18059@watmath.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:

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> Oh boy!  I just got J and put it up on my personal Iris (4d25tg, IRIX 3.2.1).  
> I do intend to send in my $24, become a registered user and get the printed
> manual, but in the meantime, could some kind soul please tell me how to
> use these tutorial.js and tut/tut??.js files?  Are they special J files
> that are to be invoked somehow from within J?  If so, how?  If not, how
> are they used?
> 
> I tried "j < tutorial.js", and this prints the line "J Tutorial", then 
> immediately exits.  Other attempts, from within J, failed in more obvious
> ways.

The .js files are (apparently) the J equivalent of apl workspaces.  Look in the
rununix.doc file, if you picked it up in your .tar.  It tells how to initiate
the tutorial from within J.  I haven't yet figured out just _what_ it does,
however.....any suggestions???

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dean kelley