<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2> I'm sorry. I was t
rying to simplify the code to mail to the mailing
list and made a silly mistake in the argument names. This is not the
problem in the actual code.<br> 
<br> 
So,the problematic code actually looks more like:<br> 
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<p style="margin: 0px;"> <font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" s
ize="2"> <p style="margin: 0px;">&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;"> 
</span> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic;">$testvar = 'www.google.com'; 
</p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic;">print("&lt;input type=button value = 'callsi
te'
<br> onclick='popwindow($testvar);'&gt;");
</p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-style: italic;">&nbsp;
</p> </font><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">function popwin
dow(url){
</span> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs
p;&nbsp; newwindow=window.open(url,'test','height=400,width=200');
</span> <br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&
nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if(window.focus){newwindow.focus()}
</span> <br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">}</span><br>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"> <br>
Sorry about that confusion. <br> 
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<p style="margin: 0px;"> <br>
thanks<br> 
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<p style="margin: 0px;"> dhivya<br>

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