Mio,
The easiest method to effect this change is to edit the file 'profile.ijs' in
the root of your J directory. Change line 56 from:
tmp=. prf,sep,'temp'
to
tmp=. jhostpath 'absolute\path\to\your\tmp\dir'
If you don't feel comfortable doing this, you could just add:
tmp =. jhostpath 'absolute\path\to\your\tmp\dir'
SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_ =: (<tmp) (< 1 ;~ (<'temp') i.~ {."1
SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_ ) } SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_
to your personal startup script (the one you've defined at
Edit>Configure>Startup>Startup Script ), though since that'll get loaded after
the entire J library, any uses of the temp folder during J's startup will still
reference the standard directory (an example is the location of the IJX file).
By the way, most of the IDE's behavior is modifiable, because it's defined by J
scripts. For example, if you didn't want to alter the meaning of jpath
'~temp' , but still wanted to specify where temporary IJS files are created,
you could just change the single definition new=: in the file
'~system\extras\util\jijs.ijs' (lines 548 + i.7 ). Modify the two
references to jpath '~temp' appropriately (lines 2,5 of the definition).
-Dan
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