Hi,

I'm calling a program via "xcall ashell myprog.run" and an sbx via "xcall mysbx.sbx", in both cases the caller program become dependent of the called modules.
Is there any setting to change this?

Thanks

In the first example (which I'm going to assume is really more like xcall HOSTEX, "$ASHELL run myprog", the calling process would normally be suspended until the child process exits. But you could make the child independent of the parent by adding the Command Modifier $ as in:

I'm not sure what to suggest for the second example, since it would be rather unusual for the subroutine to run independently of the parent, since that would require two separate processes, which you don't normally get with an SBX call. The only idea that comes to mind would be if you do want to execute the SBX in another process, you can use a front end, like SBXRUN.LIT (which acts as a wrapper for an XCALL), in which case you're really back to the first syntax, i.e.

Or are you looking for a different kind of independence?

Oh! of course the $ at the end does the trick but somehow my mind stick that to the xcall amos, not the xcall hostex (and apologize my mistake).
But I don't understand that SBXRUN, I don't have that LIT

Sorry, the SBXRUN.LIT that I have is actually Stephen Funkhouser's creation and contains some logic that may not be generally applicable. But the concept is simple - it's basically just something along the lines of...

ok, simple and nice, thank you

Obviously you could get fancier by translating additional command line arguments into additional VXCALL arguments. (Or maybe XFUNC would make that easier, since you could use the same comma-delimited syntax for both the command line and the function call).