This probably happened when a spoolfile finished printing during backup.
The way to clear it is to do a do a spoolf operation on it like spoolf
xxx;dev=lp. This will usually get rid of the file.
Gary Jackson
Nevada County Supt. of Schools
>Paul,
>
>We had that problem under 4.0 - seems to cleared itself up under 5.0.
>The way we handled it under 4.0, unfortunately, was to take the system
>down and reboot it with Start Norecovery. (HP's answer, not ours)
>
>If someone else has another idea - by all means...
>
>Best,
>Joe Geiser
>
>----------
>From: Paul H. Christidis
>Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 1996 1:57 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
>Subject: Purging a 'stuck' spoolfile
>
>To all,
>
>I have a spoolfile that has been in a 'delete pending' state for almost a
>month. When I try to list/purge it using the corresponding MPE commands I
>get (FSERR 105) Bad variable block structure message (see below). Can
>anyone suggest of a way to purge this darn thing?
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul H. Christidis
>
>
><SYS>:LISTF O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL,-3
>********************
>FILE: O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
>
>FILE CODE : 1516 FOPTIONS: ASCII,VARIABLE,CCTL,SPOOL
>BLK FACTOR: 1 CREATOR : MANAGER.SYS
>REC SIZE: 1008(BYTES) LOCKWORD:
>BLK SIZE: 1024(BYTES) SECURITY--READ : CR
>EXT SIZE: 0(SECT) WRITE : CR
>NUM REC: 586 APPEND : CR
>NUM SEC: 96 LOCK : CR
>NUM EXT: 1 EXECUTE : CR
>MAX REC: 22 **SECURITY IS ON
> FLAGS : NO ACCESSORS
>NUM LABELS: 0 CREATED : TUE, JUN 25, 1996, 1:00 AM
>MAX LABELS: 0 MODIFIED: TUE, JUN 25, 1996, 12:38 PM
>DISC DEV #: 31 ACCESSED: TUE, JUN 25, 1996, 12:38 PM
>SEC OFFSET: 0 LABEL ADDR: $0000018C.$00014720
>VOLCLASS : MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:DISC
>
>
><SYS>:PURGE O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
>BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE (FSERR 105)
>Unable to purge file "O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL". (CIERR 384)
><SYS>:REDO P
>PRINT O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
><SYS>:PRINT O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
> ^
>BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE (FSERR 105)
>The PRINT command failed. (CIERR 9080)
><SYS>:
>
Gary Jackson
Nevada CSOS
(916) 478-6407 - voice
(916) 478-6410 - fax
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