The Run New Program routine causes the current program to stop running and begins execution of another program. Format LIB$RUN_PROGRAM program-name
1 – Returns
OpenVMS usage:cond_value type: longword (unsigned) access: write only mechanism: by value
2 – Argument
program-name OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor File name of the program to be run in place of the current program. The program-name argument contains the address of a descriptor pointing to this file name string. The maximum length of the file name is 255 characters. The default file type is .EXE.