Francois Lefevre writes: > From an interactive menu, I have to start "ASKPLUS" in process handling > mode. So, I use intrinsics : > > firstly, CREATE to create the new process Okay, but then... > and for each askplus command : > > SENDMAIL to transmitt the askplus command > and ACTIVATE to execute the command. Ouch. I fear you have a few misconceptions about this. Using SENDMAIL is effective only if the receiving process calls RECEIVEMAIL. Chances are, that's not happening. And once a process is ACTIVATEd, it's active until it's not (no, really! ;) either by suspending itself or by quitting. So your second ACTIVATE, which caused the abort, either went to an already-active process, or to one which no longer existed. If you want to use CREATE/ACTIVATE and also send it one command at a time, then 1. redirect its $stdin to read a message file 2. use exactly *one* ACTIVATE 3. instead of using SENDMAIL, write the commands to the message file in item (1) above --Glenn