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From: XRBEO@VPFVM.BITNET (Bruce O'Neel)
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Date: 23 Jun 88 20:11:59 GMT
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Detached processes don't have dcl to do command processing for them.
Since you want to submit something to the job controller, sys$sndjbc (or
something like that!) should do it.  It works fine from an interactive
process because you have dcl to do the command processing.