PJS@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) (05/27/88)
>Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC ><CADS_COLE%GALLUA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>] says: >Lastly, I keep trying to add LIB$DISABLE_CTRL (I think I spelled that right) >into the FORTRAN program. I don't want the parent's Control-Y's and -C's to >interrupt the spawned process. (I tried SPAWN/INPUT=NL: but it seemed unhappy >with that.) Am I misunderstanding how LIB$DISABLE_CTRL functions? Since subprocesses inherit the context of the parent, I solve this with $ SET NOCONTROL=(Y) $ SPAWN/NOWAIT thing $ SET CONTROL=(Y) You can also use (T,Y) instead of (Y) to make sure that the subprocess doesn't repond when you type ^T. Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)