Chris Carman ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > Shouldn't the process ID change every time it's run? Basically, all I want is > a unique number every time this script I'm working on is run, and although it > wouldn't be a problem to put in a little counter subroutine, I just figured a > process ID would be easier. Any ideas? Thanks! What you're up against is OpenVMS, unlike the UNIX variants, does not fork a new process everytime you run a command. So, you're getting the process ID of your DCL process. Before we can address what you need to do instead, what is that that you're wanting to accomplish with the unique number? -- Randy Kaelber: [log in to unmask] DARS Programmer/Analyst, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 USA http://avian.dars.muohio.edu/~randy/