Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: root@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Mail Delivery Failure to uk.ac.king - Timeout Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 89 08:50:23 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: root@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Lines: 44 Via: 000040010180.FTP.MAIL; 30 DEC 89 8:56:03 GMT The NIFTP process was unable to deliver your mail to host uk.ac.king over janet. The reason given by the local host was: The NIFTP process gave up after 119 attempts over 170 hours Your message was not delivered to the following addresses: GPKING@uk.ac.kingston Your message begins as follows: Received: from vax.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sun.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK Via Ethernet with SMTP id ab17809; 23 Dec 89 6:13 GMT Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa14845; 23 Dec 89 6:12 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2520; Sat, 23 Dec 89 06:13:24 GM Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 9405; Sat, 23 Dec 89 06:13:24 G Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 8506; Fri, 22 Dec 89 22:52:34 C Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 20:58:52 GMT Reply-To: glassmann@com.camb.ccavax Original-Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: glassmann@com.camb.ccavax Subject: RE: Troubles adding batches with 5.9B To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS Sender: ANU-NEWS%earn.ndsuvm1@uk.ac.earn-relay In article <8912190723.AA14204@uunet.uu.net>, munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET .UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes: > its just another of the integration problems - vaxc is not quite VMS - at this > point the NEWS code sees a -1 value from a file operation and says "oh well - > nice try" - to get past this to the RMS return status is what you are asking > for... could be interesting! > I thought this info could be gotten from the global variable vaxc$errno. -- Lenny Glassmann glassmann@ccavax.camb.com