John,

You hit it.  I tried it:

ASTRO:setvar false,true
ASTRO:showvar false
FALSE = TRUE
ASTRO:setvar isitso,false
ASTRO:showvar isitso
ISITSO = TRUE
ASTRO:

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Scratching my head; boolean variables always TRUE
>
>
> The only thing I could think of would be if a Boolean
> variable named FALSE,
> with a value of TRUE exists for your session.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pollard [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:38 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Scratching my head; boolean variables always TRUE
>
>
> 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.
>