Jeff Vance writes:

> Another person mentioned surprise at NETCONTROL and NSCONTROL
> being supported since these commands are typically needed and
> always seem to be executed from a job rather than directly from
> SYSSTART.  I double checked the code and NETCONTROL and NSCONTROL
> are in the list of supported commands.  I tried these commands
> on a test system and they did NOT work.  So, PROGEN accepted the
> commands but for some other reason they did not execute.

NETCONTROL and NSCONTROL don't actually do anything themselves. They send a
message to a background process (NETCP.NET.SYS I think) to execute. Due to
timing issues at boot time NETCP is not ready to handle commands at the
moment SYSSTART executes so the task of starting the network is put into a
job instead.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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