environment variable is your friend

[D.E. Chadbourne]

thanks everybody, jedit now works as advertised and i got to learn a 
thing or two about how and what these variables do in linux.
yes i'm still a d*mn noob after almost two years. :)
now i need a pint and a half hour of bzflag.
-eric.

-- 
Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes,
which can be made, in a very narrow field.