note sundialsvc4 <p> The problem here is how (and whether) that environment-variable will be set when the CGI/FastCGI script executes. &nbsp; The web-server <i>e.g.</i> Apache sets up a more limited environment so that the runtime behavior of the script is more certain and less subject to undue influence. </p><p> In the specific case of a CGI script destined for a known implementation target, I find that setting fixed paths <em>is</em> a reasonable and perhaps desirable technique. &nbsp; You know what the right answers are and always will be. &nbsp; And, as noted above, I isolate it into <u>one</u> root script which is known to have global influence upon the rest of it. &nbsp; Your Mileage May Vary&trade;, but in the specific case I described above, what I chose to do was a most-deliberate choice that did fully consider what you suggest. </p> 1002326 1002356