Hi Rob, >> First, I just want to say that finding Factor has revived my desire to learn >> programming again!
I share your enthusiasm for learning Factor. Recently I've been wondering, given my general interest in programming languages and long history with Forth, how it took me so long to find out about Factor! > How can I get Factor to read the .factor-rc file for windows? Is that the > correct name? I have placed it in the c:\Users\myname\factor directory. You can find more information about this from a Listener window by going to "Help > Article index > Running code on startup". There's a code snippet you can run by clicking on it and pressing Enter/Return/etc. in the Listener window. For me it shows "C:\Users\myname/factor-rc (and similarly for factor-boot-rc). Note this is not in the "..\factor" directory you indicated. I was also going to point out that it's "factor-rc" without the leading ".". I had arrived at these results using the Stable release: 0.94. However, I also have a newer, development release installed (although it's probably not as new as the currently available release from the main website). Just for grins, I tried the same thing in the newer release and it gave me ".factor-rc" with the leading ".". I verified that the newer release wasn't seeing my "factor-rc" file but did work with a ".factor-rc" file. I surmise that this discrepancy marks an intentional step to simplify things, as the article "Startup initialization file" in the development version only lists ".factor-rc" (whereas the stable release lists both). HTH, --John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
