MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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Message: command where?
Cause: You attempted to use command to move or copy a range of lines without speci-
fying a target address.
Action: Provide the missing target address.
Message: Command too long
Cause: You entered a command line that exceeded the input buffer size.
Action: Break the command line in smaller workable components. Create macros or
source scripts if the task is going to be performed many times.
Message: Destination cannot straddle source in ’m’ and ’t’
Cause: You specified a destination for a move, copy,ort command that resides within
the specified source range.
Action: Make sure that the destination of a move, copy,ort command in not contained
within the source range.
Message: Digits required after =
Cause: You attempted to assign a non-numeric value to a numeric variable using set.
Action: Specify a valid number.
Message: Environment variable HOME not defined.
Cause: You attempted to change the current working directory to your home directory
by using the cd or chdir command without specifying a path name; however,
the environment variable
HOME was not defined.
Action: Set HOME to your home directory, or specify the complete path name of your
home directory when using cd or chdir.
Message: Fail
Cause: You specified a regular expression that failed to match any text in the buffer.
Action: Verify that the regular expression is correct.
Message: Failed to allocate required memory.
Cause: There were not enough free system resources to perform the desired operation.
Action: Free up more resources.
Message: File exists - use ’w! filename’ to overwrite
Cause: You attempted to write to a file that already exists.
Action: Specify an unused file name, or use the suggested command to overwrite the ex-
isting file.
Message: File is read only
Cause: You attempted to write to a file that is considered to be read-only by the file sys-
tem, or you had enabled the set variable readonly.
Action: Save the changes you have made to a different file name. Use chmod(1) to
change the file access permissions, and reread the file. If you set the
readonly variable to on, you can set it to off before writing the file with:
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