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From: welch@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Arun Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Unable to delete a stream
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Date: 18 May 89 19:13:03 GMT
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I've seen this before when debugging TCPFTP, so I'm gonna assume that
it's a TCP stream.  What's happening is that the stream has gotten
munged to the point where the BEFORECLOSE prop, \TCP.READ.UNTIL.EOF,
can't execute for some reason or another, so when you try and close
it, that function dies, and you're left with this stream hanging
around.  Setting the prop to NIL should allow you to close it.  The
function's only in there 'cause some FTP servers don't allow you to
abort a read in the middle of a file, and so you have to read to the
end before you break the connection.  If MIRO's a BSD or TOPS-20 host,
you're safe.  If you're not sure, telnet to the FTP port and do a
HELP, and if it supports ABOR you're safe. 

...arun

(ex)Envos TCP Support (I took it over from Frank :-).