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Bob George, BOB@AENEAS.IMS.DISA.MIL, wrote, in part:

>The $FORCEX just terminates any image that you have running and returns
>control to DCL.  That wouldn't have any effect on the nodelete bit, would
>it?  Then the $DELPRC does check the nodelete bit (and other things) before
>it trys to kill the process.

You are right that your process wouldn't be deleted, but if someone does a
$FORCEX to your process, whatever image you were running (lets say, an
editor) will go through its regular run-down.  If the run-down doesn't include
saving the edited file, you (could have) lost everything.  I say 'could have'
because it may have a .JOU file or some sort of auto-save function that will
allow you to recover.

>Yes, but operations at one of the sites that I support has a nasty habit of
>stopping users' processes when they are running backups.  I set the nodelete
>bit on that system and then they suspended my process.  Does wonders when
>you're a large FTP or DECnet transfer or stepping through a large program
>that someone's having trouble with.

Sweet (add appropriate sarcastic inflections towards the operators at the
site).

-Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver