TELNET User Error Messages

The following error messages are returned to the current list device when an error is encountered by the TELNET user program. After a message is printed, the user may again be presented with the TELNET prompt.

TELNET User Error Messages

Message

Meaning

Action

 

 

 

Internal TELNET error

An internal TELNET error has

This error requires HP

(TELNET ERR 1)

occurred.

notification.

 

 

 

Unable to connect to

A connection could not be

(1) Verify that the target

target computer

established to the target

computer name is correct,

(TELNET ERR 2)

computer, because of one of the

(2) the target computer is

 

following problems:

connected to the network,

 

(1) the target computer name is

(3) that there are sufficient

 

incorrect,

system resources to establish a

 

(2) the target computer is not

connection, or

 

connected to the network,

(4) that TELNET has been

 

(3) there are not enough system

initialized on the target

 

resources, or

computer.

 

(4) TELNET has not been

 

 

initialized at the target computer.

 

 

 

 

Input line too long

The input line was greater than

Shorten the length of the

(TELNET ERR 3)

80 characters.

command input line to less than

 

 

80 characters.

 

 

 

Cannot find closing

An opening quotation mark was

Check syntax and try again.

quotation mark

found but not the closing

 

(TELNET ERR 4)

quotation mark.

 

 

 

 

Illegal command

A TELNET command was

Use HELP if necessary. Check

(TELNET ERR 5)

entered incorrectly with the

syntax and try again.

 

wrong syntax or parameter(s).

 

 

 

 

Unknown command

A TELNET command was

Use HELP if necessary. Check

(TELNET ERR 6)

entered incorrectly.

syntax and try again.

 

 

 

Input command is too big

You typed in a command with

Shorten the command, check

(TELNET ERR 7)

more than 256 characters.

syntax, and try again.

 

 

 

Unable to initialize

This error may be returned for

An additional error may follow

TELNET

one of the following reasons:

this message which will offer

(TELNET ERR 8)

(1) TELNET was unable to

further explanation.

 

acquire sufficient system

 

 

resources (such as sockets); or

 

 

(2) an error occurred in

 

 

accessing Distributed System

 

 

Available Memory (DSAM) or

 

 

tables in DSAM.

 

 

(3) user's terminal is not

 

 

connected to a DMUX or A400

 

 

MUX, or is not a remote TELNET

 

 

session.

 

 

 

 

Illegal escape character

An illegal escape character was

Use HELP on the ESCAPE

(TELNET ERR 9)

entered.

command. Check syntax and

 

 

try again.

 

 

 

42 Program Specific Error Messages