OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, william degnan wrote: Perhaps VMS cannot reach your mailbox? In another message you mentioned a complain from your mail server involving a ':'. A colon is very important to VMS for things like terminating a logical name, separating the device name from the directory, the node name from the device name, modifying the way that a symbol is defined, and probably others. So a full file specification migh look like this oldvax::sys$sysdevice:[temp.george]george_and_alice.jpg This leads to the following required syntax for a Multinet scp command: richardlo $ scp brian_trains.txt klystron.cs:trains.txt SCP2: FATAL: klystron.cs is not a valid logical name, use :: for a remote host richardlo $ scp brian_trains.txt klystron.cs::trains.txt brian_trains.txt | 4.3kB | 4.3kB/s | TOC: 00:00:01 | 100% Go read you multinet configuration and you system startup files very carefully with a mind for typographical errors surrounding colons, logical names, symbols, and so forth. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black