:help HPLASTJOB reveals that it is already a string variable and
thus quotes (and the accompanying !) are unnecessary.

 Jeff

> This is trivial, but you need a ! in front of hplastjob and
> encase it in " " to
> pass the contents of the variable as a string.
>
...
> >   setvar job1 "!hplastjob"
...

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