starting java using process

[mostlywrong]

i found it. i think let me make sure im using the original guiserver.lsp



copied from above:

("Path" "PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\UltraEdit-32;C:\Program

 Files\Altiris\Software Virtualization Agent\;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program F

iles\ActiveState Komodo Edit 5\;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin;C:\newlisp")

the problem probably has been floating around for a year or 2 waiting to bite me. I went back to the environment window and looked again. something about the system vs user pain was bugging me. finally i saw that the environment had the word path 2 times. once as a lable and once with an equal. i cant tell you how many time i have seen path=%path%;something in config files. somewhere mine lost the %path% and left the path= hanging in value side. took it out and all is well.



I'd like to thank you again for helping me solve this.

[Lutz]

On my XP-SP2 installation:



> (env)

(("ALLUSERSPROFILE" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users") ("APPDATA" "C:\Documents and Settings\lutz\Application Data")

 ("CLIENTNAME" "Console")

 ("CommonProgramFiles" "C:\Program Files\Common Files")

 ("COMPUTERNAME" "WINDOWS")

 ("ComSpec" "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe")

 ("FP_NO_HOST_CHECK" "NO")

 ("HOMEDRIVE" "C:")

 ("HOMEPATH" "\Documents and Settings\lutz")

 ("LOGONSERVER" "\\WINDOWS")

 ("NEWLISPDIR" "C:\Program Files\newlisp")

 ("NEWLISPLIB_INIT" "c:\lib-init.lsp")

 ("NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS" "1")

 ("OS" "Windows_NT")

 ("Path" "C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\newlisp")

 ("PATHEXT" ".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH")

 ("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE" "x86")

 ("PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER" "x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel")

 ("PROCESSOR_LEVEL" "6")

 ("PROCESSOR_REVISION" "0f06")

 ("ProgramFiles" "C:\Program Files")

 ("PROMPT" "$P$G")

 ("SESSIONNAME" "Console")

 ("SystemDrive" "C:")

 ("SystemRoot" "C:\WINDOWS")

 ("TEMP" "C:\DOCUME~1\lutz\LOCALS~1\Temp")

 ("TMP" "C:\DOCUME~1\lutz\LOCALS~1\Temp")

 ("USERDOMAIN" "WINDOWS")

 ("USERNAME" "lutz")

 ("USERPROFILE" "C:\Documents and Settings\lutz")

 ("windir" "C:\WINDOWS"))

>

[mostlywrong]

just in case you missed it. i edited my last post to say i found the trouble and the original guiserver.lsp now works like a champ.

[xytroxon]

just in case you missed it. i edited my last post to say i found the trouble and the original guiserver.lsp now works like a champ.

Great!



Proving once again that there is no such thing as a stupid question. Your thread helped me to understand a few things more about enviroment vars and paths and to clean up somethings on my machine :)



And by posting this thread, your PATH variable will live on forever**



In my browser, I highlighted and copied your PATH variable to check it out in my editor. (That period in "\ATI.ACE" looked strange to me, but is legal.) Forgetting, I accidentally opened a Google search with it. And to my surprise, Google found this thread!



-- xytroxon



** Forever. or until Google purges it!

[mostlywrong]

wow! Google indexed the pages very quickly. i would not have thought it would be so quick.