Actually, the SETLVAR command sets 'local' variables
during the current invocation of the MPEX run.

To get more information about local MPEX variables, simply
run MPEX and type
  HELP SETLVAR

Here's a snip from the online help in case you don't have MPEX
handy...

Local variables have three important properties:

   * Unlike global variables, they are automatically deleted when the
command
     file within which they were created terminates! (If you create a local
     variable by typing "%SETLVAR" directly within MPEX instead of in a
command
     file, the variable will last until you exit MPEX).

   * Local variables created in one command file are not accessible within
any
     other command file! (Local variables created "directly" within MPEX
do not
     exist within any command file at all.)

   * When both a local and a global variables exist with the same name, the
     local variable will be used, e.g.  the result of

   %SETVAR  MYVAR "global"
   %SETLVAR MYVAR "local"
   %ECHO the !MYVAR variable will be used.

     is "the local variable will be used."
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