Newbie - help with .ozrc file

[Kevin Glynn]

Kent Johnson writes:
 > Hello? Is anyone there?
 > 
 > Is there a better forum for Mozart-Oz newbies than this one? Or am
 > I the only one running on Windows? Or is my question so
 > pathetically stupid that no one can bother to answer? ;)
 > 

Well, I tried it on linux and it worked as advertised.  I have
rebooted into Windows XP and, like you, I can't get it to work at all
:-(.

 > Thanks for any help or clues or pointers to how to figure this out
 > myself...  Kent
 > 

A workaround is to manually find and feed the supplements file after
you have started Oz.

Perhaps a Windows lover can help out?

k


 > Kent Johnson wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > > 
 > > I am starting to learn Oz as a companion to "Concepts, Techniques, and 
 > > Models of Computer Programming". As suggested in the book, I have 
 > > downloaded the book supplements to a .ozrc file in my home directory. 
 > > But AFAICT this has no effect on the operation of Oz. What am I doing 
 > > wrong?
 > > 
 > > I am running mozart-oz on Windows 2000. I saved the downloaded file as
 > > C:\Documents and Settings\ktjohnson\.ozrc
 > > 
 > > This file declares a function {NewStore} so I expect to be able to do
 > > declare
 > > N={NewStore}
 > > 
 > > but this gives the error
 > > variable NewStore not introduced
 > > 
 > > I also tried creating an OZRC environment variable that points to the 
 > > .ozrc file but that didn't help.
 > > 
 > > Thanks,
 > > Kent
 > 
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