MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

co(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities co(1)
Message: No filename present for –F option.
Cause: You specified the –F option, but did not provide a file name as its argument.
Action: Provide the missing file name.
Message: No input file.
Cause: You failed to specify an input file on the command line.
Action: Provide the missing file name.
Message: Redefinition of –option option
Cause: You specified the –d, –j, –s,or–w option more than once on the command
line.
Action: Specify each of the given options only once on a command line.
Message: Redefinition of revision number
Cause: You have specified more than one revision to be checked out. The –f, –l, –p,
–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: revision rev locked by username; use co -r or rcs -u
Cause: You specified a revision rev with the –u flag that is already locked by user-
name.
Action: Either use the –u option of rcs to break the lock or the –r option of co to
check out the given revision without attempting to unlock it.
Message: too many joins
Cause: The list of revisions that you provided as an argument to the –j option con-
tained more than the maximum number of revisions that co can join.
Action: Try to join subsets of the list in consecutive calls to co.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for co.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid co options.
Message: Write error when zeroing file filename: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: writeable filename exists; checkout aborted.
Cause: You attempt to check out the file filename, but co found a writable version of
the file, and refused to overwrite it.
Action: Make sure the specified file name was correct. Determine whether there have
been any changes made to the writable version, delete or move it, and try again.
For a list of error messages common to all
RCS utilities, see rcserror(3).
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