spawning system command from fortran

[chuck_taylor]

Hi There,
I'm porting some fortran from openVMS to XP and am using the compaq VF environment, and need to issue a system command. On VMS I'd do something like:

call lib$spawn('dir/out=arf.arf')

How can I accomplish this with my XP application?

thank you,
-Chuck Taylor

[TimP]

CALL SYSTEM() allows you to submit a command to the operating system. That command might start a script, which could specify its own shell in order to avoid confusion between shells. This is an extension supported in a similar way by most vendors' Fortrans.