MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

lex(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities lex(1)

Message: Too many character classes (more that num)

Cause: LEX ran out of space for character classes.

Action: Simplify your scanner input.

Message: Too many move (%p) entries: num

Cause: You did not reserve enough space for move tables.

Action: Use the %p directive to increase the space for move tables.

Message: Too many translations (more than num)

Cause:

LEX ran out of space for translation rules.

Action: Simplify your scanner input.

Message: Unknown class [:class:]

Cause: You speciﬁed a regular expression containing a character class [:class:] that

is not supported in the POSIX

locale.

Action: Rewrite the regular expression.

Message: Unknown collating element [.col_element.]

Cause: You speciﬁed a regular expression containing a collating element that is not

supported by the

POSIX locale.

Action: Rewrite the regular expression.

Message: Unknown option: –option Try lex -h for help

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for lex.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section or type lex –h, for a list of valid lex

options.

Message: Write error on ﬁlename

Cause: An error occurred while

LEX was writing the output ﬁle.

Action: Check that space exists on the output device and that you have appropriate per-

missions to write the ﬁle.

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.

The –a, –h, –l, –o, –P, –p and –T options are extensions to the POSIX standard.

MPE/iX NOTES

For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this

utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.