On 22 Nov 99 12:00am, Peter French wrote to Herbert Rosenau:

 PF> On 1999/11/21, Herbert Rosenau wrote to Peter French on message
 PF> number 749; Hi Herbert,
HR>
HR>  PF> SET SUPPRESSPOPUPS=C
HR>  PF> SET AUTOFAIL=YES
HR>
HR> The setup from my Node:
HR>
HR> AUTOFAIL=YES  - without SET! All errorors are true errors
HR> SUPPRESSPOPUPS=C - without SET! no popup if error

 PF>   FIXED - how stupid can one be - I spent hours tracing this
 PF>   problem, because I
 PF> knew my system used to be quiet.  Interesting that the system
 PF> didn't complain about the wrong syntax.  Thanks for the help, I
 PF> hope the original poster "gets the message"

The SET command made the entries a different type of environment
variable but completely legal!  If you had typed SET at a command prompt
you would have seen both listed.

George


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