Thanks! I will try that out.
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick <glen.sl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair <n...@nf6x.net> wrote: >> Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the >> BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the way >> a task can be suspended in UNIX with ^Z? > > I'm no expert, but I think you can sometimes do ^Y, and then CONTINUE, > but only if you only execute built-in commands between the ^Y and the > CONTINUE.