On 1/7/2013 3:14 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> writes: On 1/7/2013 2:48 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: > Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> writes: > >> What exactly does that mean? Did any other messages (codes) accompany the error? > None that I noticed, but they could have been masked by this code. Just doing NCP TELL to other machines on hecnet. Did you get kicked back to DCL? If so, before entring any other command at the DCL prompt, issue: $ SHOW SYMBOL $STATUS. Probably? This is all being doing from python. I can try to have it run that, but i think i will get a new process space so it won't matter. -brian