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> > Yesterday afternoon during a file transfer from PC to HP my : prompt was
> > lost, so I was struggling with that.
John A Beckett wrote:
>
> We had a similar situation yesterday.  After trying all the tricks HP
> gives us, we used an old one that has often worked for us (both on the
> Series III and the XL machines).  Go to another port, log on as
> MANAGER.SYS, and do the following:
>
>    :FILE X;DEV=<TheBadPort>
>    :SHOWJOB *X
>
> ...Then try it again.  Note: This only works if you weren't logged into
> the port when it went bad.
As I wrote, I was loggen in, and the file transfer was initialted from
QUIET mode. Now I use another port, but the session on the bad port is
still logged on. It is still living in QUIET mode. Neither ABORTJOB, nor
Stan Sieler's BOUNCE could kill it.
 
Why?
                        TIA
                                              Frank
 
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