Actually you should not need to ever reboot to absorb new environment vars. In windows though, you do have to start a new dos window. Dos windows that are open before changes are made to a environ var will not absorb the changes made. Any new dos windows will have the changed settings. Win2000 even improves greatly on the "Have to restart to use new settings" junk that you used to get when making changes to stuff like TCP/IP settings. --- Michael Wentzel Software Developer <A HREF="http://www.aswethink.com">Software As We Think</A> <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Michael Wentzel</A> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]