1 SPAWN Spawns a process to execute a DCL command. If you do not enter a command, the command terminal is attached to the spawned process. If you do enter a command, that command is executed, and, upon completion of the command, control returns to the parent process. Format SPAWN [DCL Command] 2 Example InfoServer> SPAWN DIRECTORY . . . (output) . . . InfoServer> The command in this example spawns a process to execute a DCL DIRECTORY command. Following execution of the command, control returns to the InfoServer process.