On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Fred wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: You haven't loaded a different message file? You can do that in VMS, and there is this classic april fools message file that I wouldn't be surprised if it holds that fish message... To my knowledge, no - whatever ships with 8.3 is what is there, although I'm not sure how to tell. However, at $previous_job where they ran OpenVMS in production and I had access to DCL, the DS15 ran 8.3 and that is where I originally discovered this easter egg. I can't believe they would have had anything other than the standard message file. My IA64 OVMS 8.4 test system also has this message in the standard message file. I wonder what facility returns status this and possibly other equally interesting status values... :-) Poking around a bit yields another interesting one: WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (3000) %SYSTEM-W-REMINDER, Andy, remember to turn off the lights when you leave... How did this diversion get injected into this discussion? Fred, is this merely part of one of your signatures? - Mark