Try something as:

::PROMPT STRING INFO = &
"Enter a string: "
!JOB TESTJOBS,MANAGER.SYS;OUTCLASS=NOPRINT;pri=cs
!COMMENT
!setvar y "{info}"
!showvar  y
!echo INFO = !y
!TELL MANAGER.SYS The test job is done
!eoj

The results are:

JOB TESTJOBS,MANAGER.SYS,SUPUTIL.
Priority = CS; Inpri = 8; Time = UNLIMITED seconds.
Job number = #j563.
THU, NOV 11, 1999, 10:36 AM.
HP3000  Release: C.55.00   User Version: C.55.00
MPE/iX  HP31900 C.05.08  Copyright Hewlett-Packard 1987.
:SETVAR y "abcd       "
:SHOWVAR  y
Y = abcd/efghij
:ECHO INFO = !y
INFO = abcd/efghij
:TELL MANAGER.SYS The test job is done
:EOJ
CPU sec. = 1.  elapsed min. = 1.  THU, NOV 11, 1999, 10:36 AM.


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Subject:    Re: Have a STREAMX question...
Author: [log in to unmask]
Date:       11/11/99 9:34 AM

Streamx probably thinks everything after the slash is a password so it
doesn't display it.

maybe if you put it in a comment line ::comment {user_string}.  Since I
don't have access to a machine right now I can't test it.


Larry Barnes

Jay Willis wrote:

> We use Vesoft's Streamx exclusively here, and I was wondering if anyone
> here would know how to get around a little problem I am having with it.
> The job prompts the user for a string:
>
> ::PROMPT STRING INFO = &
>   "Enter a string: "
>
> The string may contain a slash ("/"). I want to display within the
> stdlist what string the user entered:
>
> !comment info.....{INFO}
>
> But if the user has entered a string which contains a slash, the part of
> the string which follows the slash does not display in the comment line.
> Is there some trick to getting the whole string to display, regardless
> of what the user entered?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Jay