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Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 [message #33639 is a reply to message #33636]

Mon, 13 January 2003 01:27

wmconnolley
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Registered: November 2000

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Andrew & Jo Cool <cooladjc@chariot.net.au> wrote:
>> trying to start a programm from IDL, I got a message box telling me
>> "SPAWN blocked by IDL"
>>
>> I assume this is a security thing?! But is there a way to allow it?

> 1. Is your IDL session in Demo mode? If so, then Spawning
> commands is probably a no-no.

> 2. Under VMS at least, if you fill up your disk
> quota, Spawn jobs may fail, as they open a temporary file.

Another possibility is, under unix, to have reached your process number limit,
in which case odd things can happen.

-W.

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		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 06:14
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: btupper on Tue, 14 January 2003 05:31
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 04:19
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 04:14
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 13 January 2003 20:32
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: wmconnolley on Mon, 13 January 2003 10:40
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		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: wmconnolley on Mon, 13 January 2003 01:27
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