On 9/8, Stan Sieler said:

> I've been encountering "BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE" on spool files
recently...
> so I thought I'd search HP ESC looking for info (silly me!).

> (Don't worry, I'm not ranting (today, anyway) over the fact that I checked
> "MPE", but only 8 of the 60 "hits" displayed were MPE oriented, with the
> rest being HP-UX oriented.)

  <a section on another pet peeve: MPE/iX version numbering snipped>

Many people, including Stan, have been complaining about this for well
over a year. Imagine my surprise then when no one from WCSO at HPWorld
seemed to know about this annoying, and what should be embarrassing,
deficiency. Including the Americas Software Service & Support Manager,
WCSO, Nick Voigt, whom I talked with about this and other concerns after
the Support Roundtable. He promised to follow up and, while it is still
perhaps too soon to expect anything, I am copying him on this posting as
a reminder.

I made several suggestions for improving the usability of the ESC and
propose that others add their ideas to this thread on HP3000-L. The
potential for the ESC to be really useful is there - it just needs some
attention.

John Burke
Pacific Coast Building Products
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