Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA (12/19/85)
someone suggested i run StartNet with verify on, which was quite illuminating. i was under the impression that the volatile database was initialized from the permanent database by magic; i wasn't aware that StartNet just issues various Set commands to do the job. in my case, there was an empty StartPSI.Com in Sys$Manager:, so StartNet called it to configure the lines and circuits rather than trusting the permanent database. thanks to all who tried to help. now if i could just figure out where that StartPSI.Com came from....