If you just do a "stream", then a colon and an exclamation
mark are treated as the special character.  But if you do
a "stream <job>,:" or some other character, then just the
character following the comma is treated specially, freeing
up the exclamation mark for your purposes.

Steve Cooper
Allegro Consultants, a Resource 3000 partner 

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> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:02 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Dereferencing Variables
> 
> I have a pretty elementary question.  Does anyone know of a way to 
> dereference a variable starting in the first column of a line 
> within a job?  
> Typically, an exclamation point in column one is interpreted 
> as a colon, and 
> the CI does not recognize the string following it as a variable.
> 
> I am aware of the use of ECHO and input redirection in the 
> case of a program 
> requesting input:
> 
> ECHO !MYVAR  >MYFILE
> RUN MYPROG  <MYFILE
> 
> Does anyone know another trick?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Clogg
> 
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