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Program Startup NetIPC itself does not include a call to schedule a peer process. In programs communicating between multiple HP 3000 systems, you can use the Remote Process Management (RPM) call, RPMCREATE, to programmatically schedule program execution. However, RPM between HP 3000 and HP 1000 systems, and between HP 3000 and HP 9000 systems, is not currently supported by Hewlett-Packard. Instead, you must manually start up each NetIPC program on its respective system. HP 3000 Program Startup To manually start up an HP 3000 NetIPC program, log on to the HP 3000 and run the NetIPC program (with the RUN command). You can schedule the program to start at a particular time by writing a job file to execute the program, and then including time and date parameters in the :STREAM command that executes the job file. HP 1000 Program Startup To manually start up an HP 1000 NetIPC program, simply logon to the HP 1000 system and run the NetIPC program with the RTE XQ (run program without wait) command. To have the NetIPC program execute at system start up, put the RTE XQ command in the WELCOME file. HP 9000 Program Startup Remote HP 9000 processes can be manually started or can be scheduled by daemons that are started at system start up. In HP-UX a daemon is a process that runs continuously and usually performs system administrative tasks. Although a daemon runs continuously, it performs actions either at a specified time, or upon a specified event. To manually start up a NetIPC program, simply logon to the HP 9000 system and run the NetIPC program. HP recommends that you write a NetIPC daemon to schedule your NetIPC programs. You can start the daemon at start up by invoking it from the /etc/netlinkrc file. Refer to the NS/ARPA Services/9000 Series 800 Node Manager's Guide for more information about this file and system start up. PC NetIPC Program Startup To manually start up a PC NetIPC program, enter the NetIPC program name at the MS-DOS* prompt. To execute from within MS-Windows, copy the NetIPC program files to your Windows directory and double click the mouse on the executable file.