While using TELNET, you can use the SPAWN command to suspend your current session and create a subprocess at the local DCL prompt. At the DCL prompt, you can then enter any number of DCL commands. To return to your suspended TELNET session (exiting the DCL subprocess), enter the LOGOUT command.
1 – Example
In the following example, the user suspends the TELNET session to list the files in the working directory on the local host and deletes one of the files in that directory and then returns to the TELNET session. TELNET> SPAWN $ DIR . . . $ DEL TR3.TXT:* $ LOGOUT Process FERN_1 logged out at 17-JAN-2002 11:08:24.90 TELNET>