I tried this repeatedly using ScreenJet 2.0b , Build 981394749 and it
worked fine for me.


At 12:38 PM 2/20/2001 -0500, John Pollard wrote:
>I recently encountered a situation that I simply can not explain. In
>certain situations, my session becomes unable to set a boolean variable to
>FALSE. Doesn't matter if it is a CI variable like HPCMDTRACE or one of my
>own creation.  Doesn't matter if already existed or was created for the
>first time by my "setvar".
>
>I can do the following:
>
>SETVAR  ISITSO,FALSE
>SHOWVAR  ISITSO
>
>and the result is:
>ISITSO = TRUE
>
>How could this ever happen?
>
>Possible background info:
>This just began happening after I started testing a demo of a product
>mentioned on this list, namely: ScreenJet. I am not pointing any fingers
>here; coincidences happen all the time. I have submitted this question to
>the makers of ScreenJet, but thought I would run it by the astute members
>of this list; since I could not conceive how anything could cause this
>phenomenon to occur.


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