Thanks for your response Randy, but this doesn't seem to be the answer.
My variable name is only 27 characters and my field length is 32.  I put
blanks in the end of the field, but still get the same error message.
Any other ideas?

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From:  randy
Sent:  Wednesday, November 13, 1996 10:44 AM
To:  HP3000-L
Subject:  Re: HPCIGETVAR Intrinsic Error

Todd Boyd wrote:

>I'm using the HPCIGETVAR intrinsic to retrieve a string variable and
>getting the error number -8111 subsystem 166.  I can't find any
>documentation for this error message.  Any ideas?

Using Stan's (I think) command file:

  :showerr 166,8111
  HPDEBUG Intrinsic at: a.00a2a678 hxdebug+$c4
  variable management
  The length of the variable name is greater than 255 characters.

<SNIP>

I'd suspect that you haven't blank-terminated the variable name in
the call to HPCIGETVAR.

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Randy Medd
Telamon, Inc.