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C Language: fork and DCLtables

The Question is:

Hello;
	I am porting or integrating C code to be
run on Digitall UNIX and AXP OpenVMS 6.2.

	What I want is to continue using the following
piece of C code on the OpenMVS side.

if ((waitpid = vfor()) == 0)
   execv("FORTRAN/par1/par2", argv)
else
   wait(&status)

The important thing in here is with vfork I am loosing
my command table where the FORTRAN verb is located.
How do I created my own command table that I can pass
using vfork and execv.

This is very important since is a major effort to
port software accross Digital platforms.

Thank you very much for your info.

The Answer is:

      Use LIB$SPAWN instead of execv. If necessary, revector the execv
    call with a macro and jacket routine. LIB$SPAWN, by default, will use
    the command table of the parent process. It also has an argument which
    will allow you to specify a particular command table for the subprocess
    to use.