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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

2123.0. "CREATE?TERMINAl ... Special quota required ?" by BRSIS6::BUTTIENS (Roger Buttiens) Wed Jan 24 1990 06:57

Hello,

The context is VMS 5.3.

If I add an application definition to the session manager customisation as 
follows :   CREATE /TERMINAL   RUN something   I 've a problem when I start this
new application from the Session Manager Applications Menu.   The window
appears on the screen for just a few seconds and then gets deleted.

However, when I type this command from a DECterm session  (which runs detached
from the Session Manager) I succeed in a CREATE/TERM  RUN something .   I 
suspect process quota, but I did not find anything in the new features manual
for the CREATE?TERMINAL command.

Can someone explain this behaviour ?

/Roger.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2123.1	Try CREATE/TERMINAL/DETCACHED...	NITMOI::PESENTI	Only messages can be dragged	`Wed Jan 24 1990 10:43`	0
2123.2	See VMS 5.3 New Features Manual	BRSIS6::BUTTIENS	Roger Buttiens	`Thu Jan 25 1990 05:30`	5
	I 've read in VMS 5.3 New Features Manual (page 4-7) that 'The command-string parameter can not be used with the /DETACH qualifier' ... and I need this command-string, ... so I cannot detach ?! Or am I missing something ? Roger.
2123.3	How about...	NITMOI::PESENTI	Only messages can be dragged	`Thu Jan 25 1990 08:32`	1
	How about using the /INPUT=file switch, where the file says "$ RUN ...."?
2123.4		PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ	Jeffrey A. Lomicka	`Fri Jan 26 1990 14:37`	9
	The easy solution is to use "$ CREATE/TERMINAL/WAIT RUN something". Reason: - Create/terminal is just like SPAWN/NOWAIT. It issues the RUN command in a subprocess and then exits. In the application menu, the session manager created a process and issued the CREATE command on it. When the create command was over it logged out the process, which took the subprocess with it. /WAIT makes CREATE wait until the subprocess goes away on it's own.