Oh! I just remembered that we recently patch Racket with Racket blinders so that it doesn't acknowledge the existence of any language not implemented a Racket macro. I think you're just out of luck unless you want to downgrade.<div> <br></div><div>Jay</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tim Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbnelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">tbnelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for the hint Danny. I didn't know about that function... but I'm sorry to say that <div><br></div><div>> (find-executable-path "java.exe")</div> <div>#f</div><div><br></div><div>whereas from cmd:</div> <div>> where java</div><div>C:\Windows\System32\java.exe</div><div><br></div><div>so the command line knows about it, and I can use it, but it is concealed from Racket, even via find-executable-path. That's probably a more concise statement of my problem!</div> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <div><br></div><div>- T</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Danny Yoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dyoo@hashcollision.org" target="_blank">dyoo@hashcollision.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div><div>One of my Racket projects scans the PATH directories to locate</div><div>the Java executable, if one is installed.</div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>If you're searching through PATHt, you should be able to use find-executable-path.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html#(def._((lib._racket/private/misc..rkt)._find-executable-path))" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html#(def._((lib._racket/private/misc..rkt)._find-executable-path))</a></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For example:</div><div><br></div><div> (find-executable-path "java.exe")</div><div><br></div></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> </div></div><br>____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>><br>Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University<br><a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a><br> <br>"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93<br> </div>