cetron%utah-ced@UTAH-CS.ARPA.UUCP (01/26/87)
thanks to all who responded - as far as the forgetting to declare sys$wake , or use the correct include statement, boy do I feel dumb ('specially when I remembered to declare pid and status.....) Well I did that and what do you know, it returned an error message that I didn't have enough arguments....hmmmmm.... so I did a little empirical testing: sys$wake() does not work sys$wake(,) does work sys$wake(pid) does not work sys$wake(pid,) does work.... hmmmm.... will this is totally consistent with the call/function having two required parameters, I just checked the uVMS Programming Support Manual and the VMS mini-reference and they both insist that sys$wake has two OPTIONAL arguments (and that they are independent). score; 1 mistake by me, 1 by Digital.... -ed cetron