One possible cause of error 19 is that the string you passed to specify
$STDLIST is not terminated by a carriage return.

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successfully call the CREATEPROCESS intrinsic
from C/XL and redirect $STDLIST to a flat ascii file?
Some pointers appear below:

     1) The $STDLIST flat ascii file should be built before calling the
        CREATEPROCESS intrinsic (either before running the program, or
        through the COMMAND intrinsic);

     2) Calling the CREATEPROCESS intrinsic requires that the program
        have PH (process handling) capability.  You can compile and
        link as follows to obtain this capability:

        :CCXL MYSOURCE
        :LINK FROM=$OLDPASS;TO=MYPROG;RL=^CCSTDRL.LIB.SYS;CAP=IA,BA,PH

     3) The string containing the $STDLIST filename should be terminated
        with the octal equivalent of a carriage return, which is
        expressed as "\015" in C/XL.

     4) The address of the character array containing the filename of
        the $STDLIST file must be type-coerced to an integer value.
        For example, if the filename is contained in the character array
        "stdlist", you can type-coerce the address of this array to
        an integer value with "(int) stdlist".

A sample program follows that calls CREATEPROCESS to activate EDITOR and
redirect $STDLIST to the flat ascii file OUTFILE. You build the file
OUTFILE with the command ":BUILD OUTFILE;REC=-80,,F,ASCII;DISC=1000",
and remember that the program must have PH capability. For further
information on CREATEPROCESS, see the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual
(part no. 32650-90028).

#include <stdio.h>
#include <mpe.h>
#pragma intrinsic CREATEPROCESS createprocess

main ()
{
int         status;
short int   pin;
char        progname[29];
char        stdlist[19];
int         itemnums[4];
int         items[3];

   printf("Calling CREATEPROCESS intrinsic...\n\n");
   strcpy(progname,"EDITOR.PUB.SYS ");
   strcpy(stdlist,"OUTFILE\015");       /* must terminate filename with
                                           a carriage return */
   itemnums[0] = 3;        /* load options */
   items[0]    = 1;        /* reactivate PARENT when SON terminates */

   itemnums[1] = 10;       /* call ACTIVATE intrinsic for SON process */
   items[1]    = 2;        /* specify SON activation */

   itemnums[2] = 9;           /* option to redirect $STDLIST */
   items[2] = (int) stdlist;  /* address of $STDLIST variable name,
                                 type-coerced to an integer */
   itemnums[3] = 0;

   createprocess ( &status, &pin, progname, itemnums, items );

   if (status!=0) printf ("\nCREATEPROCESS failure, status is %d\n",
                              status);
   else printf ("\nFATHER re-activated... successful call!\n");
   }


hope this helps
Cathlene Mc Rae
Sr Response Center Engineer.

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