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>: