Spawning subprocesses on the VAX

(Tip submitted by Rich Genik)

Define a symbol in your login.com file:

gospawn :== "SPAWN/INP=NLA0:/OUTP=NLA0:/NOTIFY/NOWAIT"

Now, you can run GhostView without making your window useless:

$ setup ghostview
$ gospawn gv

Also, all VAX documentation is available with BookReader on FNALD0. This stuff is not available on the Alpha nodes or XTERMs. But, you can do:

$ gospawn mcr sys$common:[sysexe]decw$bookreader

and you will be able to access a wealth of info!

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