[Info-vax] Command Procedure Pipe output to a variable
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Oct 3 19:08:56 EDT 2021
On 10/3/2021 6:43 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 9:49:03 AM UTC+13, VAXman- wrote:
>> If you are trying to SPAWN and send output to a symbol, it won't work once
>> the subprocess terminates. That symbol is sdefined in the context of the
>> spawned process and DCL symbols are *unique* to a process.
>
> As I recall, the lowest level of symbol definitions that you can share across processes is job-wide logical names.
Logicals are not symbols.
So job logicals are the lowest level of logical definitions shared
across processes.
Arne
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