Stop the presses. Mark Bixby actually mentioning this in an exchange on
learning perl, where I mentioned that parsing the store listing might
make a good first exercise to start working with perl. For the
interested, FILE NULL=$NULL, then STORE something;*NULL, then SHOWVAR
[log in to unmask] There are thirty such variables, and I cannot find them documented
on the LaserROM, whereas the three STORE@ variables are. I have posted
to ESC to learn more, but this goes a long way for me.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 5:30 PM
> To:   Stigers, Greg [And]
> Subject:      Re: learning perl
>
> Stigers, Greg  ~ AND writes:
> >
> > Holy smokes! I just stored to null to test this, and wow! Can we go
> on
> > list with this? NO ONE suggested this, whereas I was given some
> > hackeries to get there from here. This isn't even on the LaserROM!
> What
> > I am looking for is
> > IF TS_FILES_NOT_STORED <> 44
> >    TELLOP ![chr(27)]&dJ TS_FILES_NOT_STORED = !TS_FILES_NOT_STORED
> >    TELLOP ![chr(27)]&dJ STORE in !HPJOBNAME may be bad!
> >    ESCAPE
> > ENDIF
>
> I'll let you take it public.
>
> Those variables didn't always exist.  Because I'm a paranoid guy, a
> number of
> my batch jobs do SHOWVAR @, including my backup jobs.  One day after
> doing an
> update or powerpatch or somesuch (I really don't remember what or
> when), all
> those variables just appeared.
>
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