On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Mark J. Blair 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?
There are several: $ submit /queue=sys$batch /noprint foo.com $ run /detached foo.exe $ spawn /nolog /process==spawned_foo foo.exe You need to read a little tome entitled "Mastering VMS" by David W. Byron or maybe "The VMS User's Manual" that came with VAX/VMS Version 5. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston