[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<37a9ea2e-b884-4f6f-a877-0edaedc0f5cb at y3g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>, John
Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> And for those cases where terminals are unresponsive but console
> access is available?

Interesting.

I was logged in at the console, but it was frozen.  With CTRL-P, I was 
at the >>> and could perhaps have entered something there.

> I can't remember if there's an official procedure, but getting to
> console mode (>>> on Alpha) and depositing rubbish (eg a 1) in the PC
> springs to mind. It worked on my PWS when I tried it not long ago, but
> that's not a very extensive sample. Also, different consoles have
> different syntax, iirc some have a "crash" command, etc.