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Creating your Own Variables
You can use the readvar command, or an assignment statement (of the format $ varname=expression) to define your own variables. In addition, many functions will set variables.
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Arbortext Editor will prompt for a value any time a readvar command is encountered. This can be useful when you are writing a script and you want to prompt dynamically for the value of a particular variable.