Article 171667 of comp.os.vms:
Steve Reece, Systems. (srr3@leicester.ac.uk) wrote:
: I can't confirm it for DECNet Ph. V as I installed Phase IV when I 
: upgraded to VMS V7.1 on my VAXStation 3100.  One thing I can say though is 
: that my VAXStation gies a similar error when shutting down.  It appears 
: that Digital were going to do a command syntax such as START/NETWORK 
: DECNET IV and STOP/NETWORK DECNET or some such.  It is documented in the 
: V7.1 DCL Dictionary (very briefly!) but last time I spoke to Customer 
: Support in the UK about it (when I upgraded to V7.0) they said something 
: along the lines of Ignore it, It doesn't work yet.

They weren't "going to", they DID it for no apparent reason.  You can fix
this yourself by editing SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$NET_SERVICES_SHUTDOWN.COM file and
replacing the code that goes like so:

	$if version .eq. 4
	$then
	$    stop/network DECnet
	$endif

with something more rational for Phase IV, such as:

	$if version .eq. 4
	$then
	$    mcr ncp set exec state off
	$endif

I can't imagine how DEC screwed this up, but they did.  This change allows
DECnet Phase IV to come down properly, an error exit is not taken, and you
don't get that nastygram every time you shut down your system.

Jonathan Boswell