-=> Quoting Peter French 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 problem,
 PF> because I knew my system used to be quiet.  Interesting that the system
 PF> didn't complain about the wrong syntax.

It didn't complain because the syntax *wasn't* wrong. You just weren't
doing what you thought you were. Instead of changing an OS setting, you
were creating an environment variable. 

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