Re: Problem setting PATH environment

[c.]

On 13 Aug 2012, at 10:41, Jonathan wrote:

> I assumed
> that subdirectories of the named path (ie under dropbox in my case) would
> also be accessible, but perhaps I was wrong.  Apologies if so.

Indeed that is not how addpath works, if you want to add all subdirectories of 
'/Users/jonathan/dropbox'
you will have to change the command in ~/.octaverc to something like:

addpath (genpath ('/Users/jonathan/dropbox'), '-begin');

see 

help genpath

for more details.
c.