i'm running FC1 and've never understood the path variable stuff. when i type "pine" or "pico" at the terminal i get the expected response, but... to use the java compiler i have to enter the full path, along the lines of: /home/net/j2../javac foo.java which seems a bit much. what i want is to "javac foo.java" without all that path info. thanks, javac at mail dot com -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm