G. <gerry77 at mail.com> writes: On Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:56 -0400, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: Were you attempting to RTERM to a TOPS20 system??? =20 That's where that stack dumps seems to be taking me. No, TOPS-10. Well, there's no specific TOPS-10 module. I'll assume that the TOPS20 is also for use when the target is TOPS10. Wait, when connecting to RSTS/E it changes... Hmm. Very peculiar. 000052D800008AA4 0000517000008AA4 OK. I have some other work to address but I'll try to look into this some more later. If you can go back to plain-vanilla V8.3 (ie. sans any update patches), see if it occurs there. If it does not, one of the updates has introduced some incompatibility. It will be much easier to trace down if you can prove and or disprove this. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.