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[ArrayMac227]

Using 12.1 Educational, when I enter simple user command:

]?
SALT needs to be enabled
⎕THIS ⎕SE.UCMD'?'

Is there documentation describing how to enable SALT?

[DanB|Dyalog]

This is strange, SALT is enabled by default.
Check the config menu, there should be a SALT tab where you enable it.
There should also be a PDF in the Dyalog folder or the help folder beneath it about SALT and UCMDs.

[ArrayMac227]

Going into the SALT.PDF file, I found:

> If SALT is not enabled you can enable it using the SALT workspace. Simply type
> )LOAD SALT
> enableSALT

I'll try this, expecting to need a full pathname for the )LOAD. Thanks for the pointers.

[PGilbert]

Hello ArrayMac227, another way to find if SALT is enabled is to do in the menu: Options -> Configure. In the configuration window should be able to see if SALT is enabled under the SALT tab.

[ArrayMac227]

Found Dan's 'config menu' to be the Options -> Configure one. Did some spelunking in the enableSALT function, got an obsolete result from:

> 2 ⎕NQ'.' 'GetEnvironment' 'Dyalog'

rewrote the calling function to return a proper drive, C not R, R being the network reference on an XP box which died last spring.

I rewrote since I am leery of changing this value with something like,

> 2 ⎕NQ'.' 'SetEnvironment' 'Dyalog' 'newpath'

since this is not obviously documented and, like any Registry function, could be disastrous.