On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:30 -0400, David Scriven wrote: > Hi Ed, > > No, not for installed Matlab, but for stand-alone applications > on machines that don't have Matlab installed, so no, I don't > believe I'm doing anything wrong. Ok, I misunderstood the "stand-alone" part. So, exactly what isn't working for you? Your description is pretty vague. If all you want to do is set some environment variables, then there are many ways to accomplish that. One quick/easy method is to "wrap" your executable by writing a shell script that sets all the necessary environment vars, etc. before calling the actual executable. Many programs use such a wrapper strategy. Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3@xxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxx URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464