Greetings folks, I just wanted to pass on a interesting "feature" of the "getenv" function which we ran into recently: Doing a getenv on a non-existent variable named "SYSTEM" returned a value instead of a null string. I called HP and they figured out that it was their JCW mechanism doing some interesting stuff because of their predefined mnemonics for some jcw's. I got these values from ":HELP SETJCW": OK for 0; WARN for 16,384; FATAL for 32,768; SYSTEM for 49,152 Also, any combination of one of these mnemonics + an integer results in that mnemonic's value + the integer: OK3 for 3, SYSTEM1 for 49,153, etc. Bottom line: Watch out for using getenv on "OK", "WARN", "FATAL" or "SYSTEM" alone or followed by digits! I asked for an enhancement request to at least document this in the "getenv" documentation. We'll see. Rich Trapp [log in to unmask]