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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DEC error messages (was foo?)
Message-ID: <4131@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 12:51:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 12:51:51 1986
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Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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In article <973@mtune.UUCP> jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) writes:
>
>Absolutely true. DEC do have a sense of humour with their error
>messages though - anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The
>error message manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'. Also true.

	but the best part was that the error number also matched the
error:

	ie.nfw  -69.  path lost to partner


and I still regularly get this error when the unix machines on the same
ethercable as my rsx/vax decnet go nuts.....

-ed cetron