It may expand if used in a run() function call, but I haven't tried that. I know there's a way to expand those using COM because one of the COM objects you can get from Windows provides a method of doing it. What follows is a slightly edited version of a VBScript function I wrote as part of my script installers. This may give you some ideas. private function envVar(varname) ' Expand %varname% via shell.expandEnvironmentStrings, ' or use alternative means where known and necessary, ' or quit the program if varname won't expand. dim goShell : set goShell = createObject("wscript.shell") ' The program will exit with an error if this init fails. if not (left(varname, 1) = "%" and right(varname, 1) = "%") then varname = "%" &varname &"%" end if dim expanded : expanded = goShell.expandEnvironmentStrings(varname) if expanded <> varname then envVar = expanded exit function end if ' Standard env vars like APPDATA can be missing (e.g., under Cygwin). ' This gets those that we know how to find manually. dim ev_lc : ev_lc = lcase(mid(varname, 2, len(varname)-2)) if ev_lc = "appdata" then expanded = "" on error resume next expanded = goShell.regRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\APPDATA") on error goto 0 if len(expanded) > 0 then envVar = expanded exit function end if end if wscript.echo "Error: Unable to expand " &varname &"." wscript.quit(1) end function On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:41:44PM +1100, Paul Magill wrote: Hi all, Csaba has prompted me to follow up on a similar issue I've been chasing for a while, & it may also resolve Csaba'squestion. Is it possible to have Jaws apply one of the system environment variables? The one I would like to use is, AppData, which provides the path up to where Freedom Scientific begins as follows: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\13.0\Settings\enu Which is the path to my users folder at home, & the part from Freedom Scientific\JAWS\13.0\Settings\enu Is exactly the same at work, where the path up to that point is different,but importantly, the, appData, environment variable always returns the correct path leading to the Freedom Scientific... I use the environment variable in the same batch file to backup my user folder, both at home and at work. Now, if I can have the script compiler use an environment variable, then I can do similar things to what Csaba is looking at, by just changing the path after Freedom Scientific... Is there a way? Thanks, Paul from Australia -----Original Message----- From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Csaba Godo Sent: Sunday, 17 November 2013 8:51 AM To: JAWSScripts List Subject: [jawsscripts] Linking a file to the compiler Hi guys, I'm back in with a question. Now it concerns about the use and include directrives in JAWS Basic. Mmy question is whether they can accept only fully qualified pathes or not? I mean if it is somehow possible to use path string with them like in HTML pages, where it is not necessary to fuly qualify the path if it refers to a subdirectory of the directory where the actual page is located. Like this "../pages/x.jpg". I'm not at home in C programming, so I do not know how files can be linked into the compilation process. I would like to separate my scripts into two parts and place the reusable library scripts into a subdirectory of the common directory of JAWS. When I pass only the file name then the compiler looks for the referred file in the same directory where the JSS file, which refers to it is located. If I pass the fully qualified path, like the one below, it works. This works: use "C:\\JFW Extensions\\Lib.Messages.jsb". But I'd like to put them into a subdirectory of the common JAWS directory, whose exact path is unknown. Thanks in advance for your help! Csaba __________??? View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts -- Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller __________� View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts