"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > I imagine that when Piper is started on a system, it finds all of the programs > in $PATH. It then proceeds to find the man pages and generate the XML that > defines the parameters. That first sentence should read... I imagine that when a /new session/ is started in Piper, Piper finds all of the programs in the /user's/ $PATH. This will be the responsibility of the DL. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Let the machine do the dirty work." -- Kernighan and Ritchie --