MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

ci(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities ci(1)
Message: Redefinition of revision number
Cause: You have specified more than one revision to be checked in. The –f, –h, –k,
–l, –q, –r, and –u options can each take a revision as an argument; however,
only one option per command line may specify a revision.
Action: Specify, at most, a single revision.
Message: Redefinition of symbolic name
Cause: You specified multiple –n or –N options with accompanying symbolic names.
Action: Specify, at most, one –n or –N option.
Message: revision rev locked by username
Cause: You attempted to check in a revision that was already locked by the user user-
name.
Action: Either ask username to unlock the required revision, or break the lock using the
–u option of rcs.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for ci.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section of this man page for a list of valid ci
options.
Message: working file workfile not readable or nonexistent
Cause: You specified an
RCS file on the command line, but the corresponding work file
does not exist.
Action: Check that the specified RCS
file exists, and was named properly. Also check
the value of the environment variable RCSPATH . Try to check in the work file
instead. the –t option to identify the text file.
For a list of the error messages that may occur when editing a log message, see rcsedit(3).
PORTABILITY
All
UNIX systems.
The –B, –F, –g, –G, –I, –O, –q, –R, –T, and –Y options are extensions to traditional imple-
mentations of ci.
LIMITS
Compressed files, encrypted files, and files checked in using binary file format are not handled
properly by traditional versions of RCS.IfanRCS file is compressed and you want to manipu-
late it with a traditional version of RCS, you must uncompress the file first.
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