At 4:21 PM +0200 8/8/06, van der Pot, Kees wrote: >Hello, > >Reading "perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl" and searching the >internet i was wondering if there is more info about: > >Submitting batchjobs and queue manipulation.
VMS::Queue::submit() and VMS::Queue has a lot of other functions for queue and entry manipulation. >Getting PID and setting a new name for a process running the Perlscript. Finding the pid is easy, as the special variable $$ has it: $ perl -e "print $$;" 19204 I don't know of a programmatic way to change the process name in any language, but I could be forgetting something. I suspect SET PROCESS whacks the process header directly and there is no API that does this. >Running command procedures and also returning there status. See the discussions of backticks, system, and $? in the perlvms documentation. >Run/detached of other programs. There is no general interface to SYS$CREPRC from Perl that I'm aware of. That sounds like a nice candidate for a new extension if there are any aspiring extension writers out there. >Globbing files remote with username and password. We covered this pretty well in the ITRC discussion at: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1047304 It looks like you were having trouble getting the quoting right, but when you do, it will work. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
