indeed, when running scite from terminal and building, the output window
shows

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.06.22 17:38 MKII  fmt: 2008.6.23  int: english/english

learned a few new things today.  :O)

thanks to all for helping out

>find some other way to pass some environmental variables (at least PATH) to
SciTE

that's for tomorrow, going to sleep now.

zzzzzzzzz....

alan