On 07/04/2012 19:53, wynn h. winkler wrote: > Scilab-5.3.3 under XP/SP2 > > from the console SCI has the value > C:/PROGRAM~1/SCILAB~1.3 Hi this is probably the short name of c:/program files/scilab 5.3.3 are you sure it does not exist? have a look at this: http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/getlongpathname.html