Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!BERT.CHEM.WISC.EDU!LIVINGSTONE%ELMO.DECNet From: LIVINGSTONE%ELMO.DECNet@BERT.CHEM.WISC.EDU (Gonzo Fibes) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Sub and detached processes... Message-ID: <11949398466636001@bert.chem.wisc.edu> Date: 6 May 88 06:53:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 I am using the TPU editor on a microVax II running VMS 4.5. Supposedly, one is able to spawn to another process using the "SPAWN" command. However, when I do this I receive a "subprocess could not be created" msg. I've tried setting the subprocess quota up from 2 to 4, but that did not work. Any ideas? Is the correct parameter to change the number of allowable detached processes? How does a "detached" process differ from a "sub" process? Could it be: One SPAWNs into a subprocess, but QUEUEs a detached process (eg batch file). If indeed this is the correct parameter to switch, how do I get at it? I've hacked all over and can't seem to find a way to change it. Any comments will be most appreciated. Thanks. Jeff Livingstone Chemistry Dept. (Record Lab) University of Wisconsin - Madison P.S. - I guess that should have read "Micro VMS".