One other note is that if you wish your students to use a different work
directory, you can use the "~/.factor-roots" file to list alternative
vocabulary roots.
> On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Dave Carlton <li...@polymicrosystems.com> wrote:
>
> Glad to see some more interest in Factor. I have been so busy I have not
> active but hope to be using Factor soon in some of my work.
>
>> On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Doug Coleman <doug.cole...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Factor was not designed with multiuser Windows systems in mind. It would be
>> best to have each user install their own copy of Factor in their home
>> directory. We could try to fix all of the problems for .98 if make a list of
>> them in an issue on github.
>>
>> For the second issue, are you using .96 or the latest download? Factor .96
>> initialized the Mersenne Twister PRNG with a number from the system PRNG.
>> Lately, it's been changed to initialized from the ``nano-count`` word and
>> the latest Win64 download contains the new code. However, we still
>> initialize a system PRNG and a secure PRNG, but those are supposed to
>> initialize to ``f`` if the system calls fail. We don't explicitly create
>> keys, the system calls do that I guess.
>>
>> The code is at
>> https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/blob/master/basis/random/windows/windows.factor
>> if you have any suggestions on what to change.
>>
>> I would love to fix any problems you find as the course progresses if you
>> decide to teach Factor.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Mark Green <m...@antelope.nildram.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am considering introducing Factor to students as an example of a
>>> concatenative language, but I am having some problems with the way Factor
>>> is set up which make it very hard to deploy onto a Windows network such as
>>> the one we use.
>>>
>>> 1. Factor's default work directory is a subdirectory of its install
>>> directory which normally would not be writable for users. Although work
>>> directories can be added it seems that the default cannot be changed
>>> permanently. Is there a way to alter the default work directly?
>>>
>>> 2. As Factor starts up it generates an encryption key and saves it to the
>>> All Users profile (I'd really like to know why it is doing this!). However
>>> it does not actually set the ACL to give all users access to the file, and
>>> if Factor is started by a user who cannot access this file it immediately
>>> halts. Is there a way to prevent this and why is Factor doing it anyway?
>>>
>>> Mark Green
>>> m...@antelope.nildram.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
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