Thanks guys, I think the best way for me to proceed is to store the absolute path to svn for each machine via a small config file. s. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Danny Yoo <<a href="mailto:dyoo@cs.wpi.edu">dyoo@cs.wpi.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> > It seems to get a different version of $PATH on my osx machine </div>This may be related to how OS X handles PATH and other environmental variables.  It uses environment.plist for setting such values.  See:     <a href="http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html" target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html</a> You can use the Property List Manager utility to create the appropriate .MacOSX/environment.plist file.  You may need to log out and log back in to see changes to the file. </blockquote></div> -- Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen De Gabrielle <a href="mailto:s.degabrielle@ucl.ac.uk">s.degabrielle@ucl.ac.uk</a> Telephone +44 (0)20 7679 5242 (x45242) Mobile 079 851 890 45 Project: Making Sense of Information (MaSI) <a href="http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/annb/MaSI.html">http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/annb/MaSI.html</a> UCLIC: University College London Interaction Centre <a href="http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/">http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/</a> Remax House - 31/32 Alfred Place London - WC1E 7DP