On Tue, 14 May 2013, G. wrote: On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:55:21 -0000, you wrote: Are some of your specifically-defined decimal values and similar REQUIRED? I followed that MONGEN almost exactly and OPR.EXE STILL can't be run! No, they are to increase the DECnet message size on Ethernet and to set the DECnet "hello" timer to 90 seconds. Ah. Have you checked SYS:SYSJOB.INI against TWONKY? This is mine (working): I don't think it matters...the same exact SYS:SYSJOB.INI lets OPR.EXE run with thw exact monitor from TWONKY unmodified. If I log out and back in...I can't run OPR.EXE either. ----- SET DEFAULT ACCOUNT SYSTEM LOG FILDAE LOG ACTDAE LOG DAEMON LOG ;GALAXY JOBS QUASAR LOG MIC !Modern MICs (later than 11C(1231)) don't need this blank line, older ones do. NODNAM ;Loads INI:NODNAM.INI then starts MX ----- And what about system jobs? Is there any job in "^C" or "TO" state? Mine are all in "SL" (sleep) or "HB" (hibernated) mode... Use SYSTAT to check: ----- Job Who Line# What Size(P) State 1 [OPR] DET751 STOMPR 11+12 SL 2 [OPR] CTY OPR 61+40 HB 3 [OPR] 4 SYSTAT 23+SPY RN 7 [OPR] DET751 FAL-10 115+40 SL 8 [OPR] DET751 FILDAE 17 HB 9 [OPR] DET751 ACTDAE 67+40 SL 10 [OPR] DET751 DAEMON 11+SPY r HB 11 [OPR] DET751 QUASAR 155+40 SL 12 [OPR] DET751 PULSAR 66+40 HB 13 [OPR] DET751 MIC 5+15 SL 14 [OPR] DET751 NML 38+135 HB 15 [OPR] DET751 MX 124+47 HB 16 [OPR] DET751 ORION 51+40 SL 17 [OPR] DET751 NEBULA 27+40 HB 18 [OPR] DET751 CATLOG 147+40 HB ----- Job Who Line# What Size(P) State Run Time 2 [OPR] CTY SYSTAT 23+SPY RN 0 4 [OPR] DET751 FILDAE 17 HB 0 5 [OPR] 751 11 ^C 0 I think I should have more jobs than this... Some of the above (e.g. FAL-10, NML and MX) may not be present on your system. HTH, G. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments