[Info-vax] SYS$CREPRC output to file but its overriding and not appending

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 8:02:41 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
> However, VMS has the concept of a Process Permanent File (PPF). 
> I wonder if there's any way to open a file in DCL and then pass a 
> reference to it in the output descriptor of your sys$creprc() call ?

No, because channels open in one process are not passed to another process. You’re thinking in “fork” terms, but VMS does “spawn”, not “fork”.