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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Error count on terminal ports
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 15:07:49 EDT
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 > Late[l]y we have noticed that some terminals ports on our VAX tends
 > to produce some high error counts when we do a SHOW ERROR.  The
 > strange thing is that none of our users complained about problems
 > in using the system.  The errors are confined to a few ports on our
 > DH-11 and one of them had an error count of about 600.  Is this
 > something we should really worry about?

Based on my own experience with this sort of problem, what's probably happening
is that your users are turning off their terminals without logging out,
or you're sending lots of broadcast messages to all terminals.  When I see
a high error rate on a terminal line, it generally means that an unterminated
line is echoing garbage back at the computer.