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From: RAY@SRI-VAX.ARPA (RAY)
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Subject: Spawn and Ambiguous Symbol Definitions...
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Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 00:51:21 EDT
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I don't remember seeing this anywhere, so...

It seems under V4.4 of VMS if you have an ambiguous symbol definition
the SPAWN command (also Lib$Spawn) will fail with 

" Improperly handled condition, bad stack or no handler specified."

followed by a stack dump.  No one reported this error at our site
until we got everyone on V4.4, so I am not sure if it happens on
earlier version or not. I'm submitting an SPR on the problem...


Ray