Thanks, I don't need the path, so I modified your suggestion; (system "/bin/sh -c \". /etc/profile;. ~/.profile ;svn commit  -m \"auto-commit\"\"") Works nicely. (I'm this will work on my linux machine) Weirdly a 'read'-syle[eof] prompt appears then disappears - without need for input. Thanks, Stephen On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: > On Mar 12, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: >  > Thanks for the tip, >  > >  > I've only taken a brief look, but it seems a solution is to run the >  > config files ~/.profile /etc/profile in my system call. probably by >  > constructing a string or file to pass to or execute by 'system' >   >  You can run "/bin/sh -c \". /etc/profile;/bin/env\"" and parse the >  results, then use `putenv' to change the mzscheme process's >  environment accordingly. >   > >   >  > They should do no harm, modify path as needed, and work on linux's >  > and osx transparently (I haven't thought about windows yet) >   >  There is no need to do that on linux.  (And windows is the usual mess.) >   > > >  -- >           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay: >                   <a href="http://www.barzilay.org/">http://www.barzilay.org/</a>                 Maze is Life! >   -- 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