John,


It might not help, but to help the listmembers in helping you. Could you
tell what version of MPE/iX you use?


Regards,


Jan Gerrit
"John Pollard" <[log in to unmask]> schreef in bericht
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> 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.
>