John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Although this is rather trivial compared to some of the meaningful discussions
>about jobqueues etc, I wonder if anyone has an explanation for the following :
>
>I log on to my host HP3000, open a session using NS/3000 to another HP3000,
>return to the host leaving the remote session active and execute the following
>commands with the displayed results :
>
>:remote setvar foo 25
>:remote showvar foo
>FOO = 25
>:remote echo !foo
>                         ^
>Variable name not found in variable table. (CIWARN 8101)
>25
>:
>
>It appears that the remote variable is set correctly but the message indicates
>that this is not the case although it
>prints the correct value after the message. Am I missing something obvious ? I
>can suppress the warning using
>the HPMSGFENCE variable but that misses the point.
>
>TIA,
>Cheers,
>John Dunlop ([log in to unmask])
 
For some reason (I haven't checked why) the !foo is being dereferenced locally
before the 'remote' part is executed.
 
I know this doesn't fix it, but that's what's happening.
 
Martin.
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