[chuck-users] setenv?

Hi list, Is there a known issue with std.setenv() ? For me on XP sp1 std.setenv("foo", "bar"); Returns a zero and doesn't actually set anything. What I want to acomplish is the following; I want to have one shred that calls in a set of other shreds that all sync in the style of the otf examples but I'd like to set a environment variable that tells them what our bpm will be. Also; do I understand correctly that the only way of turning a string into a int or float is by abusing the acii numbers? Even if I happen to know the string is a number? As I type this I just realised it might be a lot more practical to stop postponing reading up on global classes, still it looks like std.setenv() is malfuctioning. Yours, kas.