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From: PJS@NAIF.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Command tables for subprocesses
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Date: 21 Apr 88 22:51:48 GMT
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Any command that I have defined in my session with a "SET COMMAND <filename>"
command is unknown to a subprocess that I create with "SPAWN/NOWAIT".  Since
I would like to do background processing with these commands, the only way
I know to make the commands available would be to spawn a command procedure
that contained the SET COMMAND command.  This would usually take enough
time that it takes the edge off the efficiency I am aiming for.  Is there
another solution that lets me type "SPAWN/NOWAIT <command>"?

Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)