On 2015-02-12 16:22, Fred wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Robert Armstrong wrote: Hmm... On OVMS 7.1 I get the standard " %SYSTEM-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000B70". Did you just make this up, or is the really an Easter Egg in some version of VMS? I swear I did not make this up: MISER$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928) %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels MISER$ show sys /noproc OpenVMS V8.3 on node MISER 12-FEB-2015 10:19:47.86 Uptime 70 13:37:37 However, on 7.3: $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928) %SYSTEM-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000B70 $ show sys/noproc OpenVMS V7.3 on node FRUGAL 12-FEB-2015 10:20:56.80 Uptime 70 11:00:39 Looks like 8.3 is required! ? 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... Johnny