>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Begel <abegel(a)eecs.berkeley.edu&gt; writes: Andrew> I'm trying to add an entry to the PATH environment variable in my Andrew> Windows (native) XEmacs 21.4.3. I use (putenv "PATH" mypath) but Andrew> according to the docs, this only affects subprocesses. How can I Andrew> modify an environment variable that XEmacs itself is using (in the Andrew> process from which it was started). Is there a function for this? Most environment variables XEmacs uses are only read at startup, and their values end up in some other representations as values of Lisp variables. (The counterpart for PATH is `exec-path'.) Therefore it won't matter much to XEmacs if you change them. What exactly do you want to do? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla