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November 2003, Week 4

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Re: Console locked up
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Matthew Perdue <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:53:19 -0600
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Barbara Burnett wrote:

"Thanks for all your replies.  We tried them all and nothing worked, so
we had to bring the system down and back up.  Someone had entered a
file equation to a device from the console and misspelled it.  The
session seemed to become hung after he pressed return.

Barbara"

Since this was a misspelled file equation, did you try a ctrl-A to get
the "=" prompt at the console and then reply pin#,0 (sending
the 'device unavailable' signal) to the requesting process?

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