diff --git a/src/punk86.vfs/lib/app-punk/repl.tcl b/src/punk86.vfs/lib/app-punk/repl.tcl
index 2bdd09b9..420b3540 100644
--- a/src/punk86.vfs/lib/app-punk/repl.tcl
+++ b/src/punk86.vfs/lib/app-punk/repl.tcl
@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ if {[file isdirectory [pwd]/modules]} {
 #2)
 if {[string match "*.vfs/*" [file normalize [info script]]]} {
     #src/xxx.vfs/lib/app-punk/repl.tcl
-    #we assume if calling directly into .vfs that the user would prefer to use src/modules - so go up 4 levels
-    set modulefolder [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file normalize [info script]]]]]]/modules
+    # assume if calling directly into .vfs that the user would prefer to use src/modules - so go up 4 levels
+    #set srcmodulefolder [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file normalize [info script]]]]]]/modules
+    # - the src/modules folder doesn't contain important modules such as vendormodules - so the above probably isn't that useful 
+    set srcfolder [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file dirname [file normalize [info script]]]]]]
+    set modulefolder [file join [file dirname $srcfolder] modules] ;#modules folder at same level as src folder
 } else {
     #  .../bin/punkXX.exe  look for ../modules  (i.e modules folder at same level as bin folder)
     set modulefolder [file dirname [file dirname [info nameofexecutable]]]/modules