Accessing SYMBOLs inside "animation" scripts...

[strandwg@xxxxxxxx (Gary Strand)]

Quick question - how come the second of these two scripts doesn't work?

Works nicely:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
use season.nc
set reg/l=4
shade sdif
go land
say ($lab4)
frame/file=nanim.gif
quit
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Doesn't work:
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use season.nc
repeat/l=4:4 ( shade sdif ; go land ; say ($lab4) ; frame/file=nanim.gif )
quit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I really would like to use the time stamp in a different place, different
size on my animation. This quirk is making that impossible, so far as I can
tell.

Thanks!
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Gary Strand
strandwg@ucar.edu                          http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg