G92. QUE. Batch job termination control.

[aiba (- at -) debye.vmsmail.ethz.ch (Aiaz Bakassov, Phys. Chem., ETH Zurich)]

 Dear netters,
 I run G92 in batch mode,
 both in VMS and in UNIX.
 I wait for G92 normal termination and
 then I interface the output of G92
 to some "my_code".
 Then I routinely change parameters
 in the input file for G92 and again submit
 it to batch queue, and again wait for
 completion and again run "my_code".
 It's a loop, isn' it ?
 But the problem is how to tell the system
 (VMS or/and UNIX)
 whether the G92 batch job has already terminated,
 so to allow the system (VMS or/and UNIX)
 to execute "my_code" which uses G92 output.
 It must be some command in a VMS .com file
 or in a UNIX shell
 which waits for G92 to terminate.
 Otherwise, the execution of "my_code"
 is meaningless.
 I believe it's a standard situation
 to many other standard routines too
 (not only G92)
 and the best solutions (to VMS and to UNIX
 separately) are well known.
 Does anybody advise us on this ?
 Are there good references (VMS/UNIX books)
 where the solutions are being discussed ?
 I would prefer purely OS (operating system)
 solution, for I already know that one can write
 FORTRAN code in VMS using lib$spawn function.
 That seems very awkward to me
 (to go from FORTRAN to VMS and back
  several times within one program)
 No similar thing is known to me for UNIX.
 But that seems awkward I repeat myself.
 Sincerely,
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