Greetings folks,
   I just wanted to pass on a interesting "feature" of the "getenv" function
which we ran into recently:

  Doing a getenv on a non-existent variable named "SYSTEM" returned a value
instead of a null string.

   I called HP and they figured out that it was their JCW mechanism doing
some interesting stuff because of their predefined mnemonics for some jcw's.
 I got these values from ":HELP SETJCW":

OK for 0;
WARN  for 16,384;
FATAL for 32,768;
SYSTEM for 49,152

Also, any combination of one of these mnemonics + an integer results in that
mnemonic's value + the integer:
OK3 for 3, SYSTEM1 for 49,153, etc.

Bottom line:  Watch out for using getenv on "OK", "WARN", "FATAL" or
"SYSTEM" alone or followed by digits!

I asked for an enhancement request to at least document this in the "getenv"
documentation.  We'll see.

Rich Trapp
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