This is FAR more elegant.  But if you are setting the variable a string,
there's some funky thing you have to do.

This works:
{}
END {
  system("callci SETVAR TESTING 0")
  system("")
}

This doesn't:

{}
END {
  system("callci SETVAR TESTING 'test'")
  system("")
}
shell/iX> awk -f test.awk test.awk
SETVAR TESTING test
               ^
Variable name encountered, but variable is not defined. (CIERR 9805)

I tried a few variations using \" and such, but the callci seems to eat my
double-quotes.  Jeff may know the answer here.

Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> Is it possible to use a system(callci(setvar...)) command?
>
>  Jeff
>
> > The one glitch is I can't get the value back into
> > the MPE CI.

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