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>: