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From:     carl@CitHex.Caltech.Edu (Carl J Lydick)
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Subject:  Re: BITNET Mail follows
In-Reply-To: Your message dated 16-Jun-1988
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 > I am trying to spawn a subprocess in order to submit a batch job from a
 > detached process.  The call to lib$spawn returns with LIB$_NOCLI.  I have
 > tried the same sequence from an interactive process with success.  I have
 > checked tha process quotas for the detached process and it has 2 subprocesses
 > permitted.  The spawn command is on the next line
 > 
 >            ok = lib$spawn( full_spawn_cmd(1:full_spawn_cmd_l) )
 > 
 > and has the form "submit file/param=qw".
 > 
 > Does anyone have any ideas about this problem?

Yes, the error message you get says it all:
	%LIB-F-NOCLI, no CLI present to perform function
LIB$SPAWN requires a Command-Language Interpreter (CLI), but there is  no  CLI
present  in  your detached process.  I conclude from this that you're starting
the detached process with something like:
	$ RUN/DETACHED myprogram
This starts up you program with no CLI.  A workaround is to create a procedure
(myprocedure.com) with the line:
	$ RUN myprogram
Then start the detached process with a command of the form:
	$ RUN/INPUT=myprocedure.com/detached SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT
This creates a process complete with DCL as  the  CLI  which  then  runs  your
program.