ivanovic%vaxr.DECnet@LLL-ICDC.ARPA ("VAXR::IVANOVIC") (07/02/87)
Yakim Martillo (bloom-beacon!martillo@husc6.harvard.edu) writes ... With VMS and Multics its fairly hard to disassociate a process from the terminal. I think it may actually be impossible in the case of Mulics to disassociate the process completely. I find this limitation sort of a pain. Speaking for VMS, try using the RUN command, in particular, using the qualifier "/DETACHED". For example the command $ RUN /DETACHED /INPUT=some-DCL-command-file-spec /OUTPUT=a-log-file - sys$system:loginout.exe starts a new process using the invoker's UAF record, taking the input commands from the command file "some-DCL-command-file" and sending the output to "a-log-file". It's pretty easy to use. We do it all the time. -- Vladimir P.S. I posted a question to you about the "fundamental entities" that UNIX, VMS, and Multics use, and even though I saw the question on INFO-ADA, I didn't notice a reply from you. I was away for a week of vacation and our distribution node/network was down for a couple of days, so if you did reply, would you send me a copy? Thanks. ------