MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

ci(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities ci(1)
Message: Can’t find a revision number in workfile
Cause: You attempted to check in workfile using the –k option, but workfile does not
contain any RCS keywords that provide the revision number.
Action: Specify the desired revision number on the command line using the –r option.
Message: Can’t find a state in workfile
Cause: You attempted to check in workfile using the –k option, but workfile does not
contain any
RCS
keywords that provide the state.
Action: Specify the desired state on the command line using the –s option.
Message: Can’t find an author in workfile You attempted to check in workfile
using the –k option, but workfile does not contain any RCS keywords that pro-
vide the author.
Action: Specify the desired author on the command line using the –w option.
Message: Can’t open file textfile with description: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Can’t parse date/time: dates
Cause: You specified an improperly formatted date/time string with the –d option.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for the proper format of the date/time string.
Message: Can’t set mode of filename
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Can’t reread redirected stdin for log message; use –m
Cause: When running ci non-interactively, you did not specify a log message with the
–m option and did not use the –I option to read the log message from the stan-
dard input.
Action: When running ci non-interactively, specify the –I option to read the log mes-
sage from standard input or use the –m option to specify the message.
Message: Can’t take both log and description from redirected
stdin; use -ttextfile
Cause: You specified the –t option without providing the name of the text file from
which the new descriptive text should be taken. ci cannot read both the new
descriptive text and the revision log message from the terminal.
Action: Place the new descriptive text in a text file and run ci again, using the –t
option to specify that file.
Message: Can’t write new RCS file name1; saved in name2: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
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