&*^%^$#%$*& USER!

[Kenneth Brody]

"Brian K. White" wrote:
[...]
>      then: user cgc = cgc
>      then: cgc = getenv("COMPANY"){","{scanimg_dtyp{","{scanimg_dnum
>      then: system "winstart http://"{getenv("SRVIP"){"/cgi-bin/showthm?"{cgc
>      then: close cgc ; return
[...]
> two possible work-arounds that I can see are:
> 1) track whether user has ever been opened in a global variable and then
> check the variable at the beginning of the gosub and never close the user
> command.

Why are you closing it in the first place?  There is no need, since you
have properly written the script to loop.

> 2) don't track whether user has already been opened, just always open it
> once in @once and never close it.

What do you mean "open it once in @once"?

Unless you have some overriding need to close the pipe which I don't
see, simply remove the "close cgc" from your subroutine.

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