load'plot' is a no-op for JHS, but not for JGTK, the labs have to provide
for both so that there are those load'plot' in lab.

Google plot that used by JHS places a size limit for plots, and apparently
you hit the wall.

Срд, 16 Мар 2011, Murray Eisenberg писал(а):
> But frame 2 of the Plot Package lab already loads plot. Indeed, were 
> plot not already loaded, then you would see no plots whatsoever. But 
> plots DO begin to appear already in frame 6. It's only later, in the 
> frame I indicated, where the trouble starts.
> 
> P.S. Once again, Thunderbird under Windows truncated the entire message 
> from [email protected] to just the first one.  This does NOT happen 
> with sequences of messages sent from other originators.
> 
> On 3/16/2011 12:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> >
> > Today's Topics:
> >
> >     1. a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701 (Murray Eisenberg)
> >     2. Re: a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701 (Brian Schott)
> >
> >
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> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:34:04 -0400
> > From: Murray Eisenberg<[email protected]>
> > Subject: [Jgeneral] a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701
> > To: [email protected]
> > Message-ID:<[email protected]>
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> >
> > Inspired by Brian Schott's YouTube video on installing J701, I finally
> > got around to installing J701 64-bit on a new MacBook. After downloading
> > and the dragging the J701 folder into the Applications folder, I fired
> > up J701jhs, then in the browser window ran jal to download all libraries.
> >
> > To my surprise, when I tried running a Lab from the Studio menu, I got a
> > message that no labs were found -- even though clearly they had just all
> > been installed.
> >
> > It was only after I shut down J and then restarted that the labs were
> > found, and I could now run them.
> >
> > Perhaps this is worth a little warning somewhere (or maybe it's there
> > but I missed it).
> >
> > P.S. I got another surprise running the Plot Package Lab: In the 15th
> > frame, input
> >
> >       plot sin */~ steps 0 3 50
> >
> > produced error message
> >
> >      too much data (chart url is too large)
> >
> > and in place of the expected graphic, a frame with an "?" icon in its
> > middle. The same thing happened for subsequent frames 16 through 19.
> > This is repeatable, so it wasn't some glitch.
> >
> > Aside from my own surprise, I should think this would be most
> > off-putting to somebody evaluating J.
> >
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:59:17 -0400
> From: Brian Schott <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] a "gotcha" after iinstalling J701
> To: General forum <[email protected]>
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>       <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Murray,
> 
> I  noticed the plot error message in lesson 15. I believe the lesson
> said if you get an error message, then `load 'plot'`. Could you try
> that, please.
> 
> Your comment that jhs has to be shut down and restarted is a little
> bit of a surprise. If that can be confirmed, I will try to add a
> warning in the video.
> 
> 
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