Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: Under RSX, there is a task called IOX, which you can use to exercise the I/O subsystems. It reads/writes to disks, tapes, terminals, whatever. It's a rather good stress test of things. Does anything similar exist under VMS? Google for SYSTEST on OpenVMS. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.