MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pax(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pax(1)
Message: Existing file "filename" is newer
Cause: filename was not extracted from the archive because an existing file with the
same name was newer.
Action: If you really want to extract filename, use the –u option.
Message: fifo special file "filename": fifo not supported by
local o/s
Cause: You attempted to extract an archive file containing a
FIFO file, and the host
operating system does not support FIFOs.
Action: Since the operating system does not support FIFOs, no action is possible.
Message: file "filename": Unable to represent filename in ISO/IEC
8859 -- not saved
Cause: Characters in filename cannot be represented in the character set used in tar
archives.
Action: Rename the specified file to contain only characters in ISO/IEC 8859.
Message: filename is a special file--not dumped
Cause: You attempted to dump a special file when writing a non-
USTAR tar file.
Action: Do not specify special files to be included in tar archives. If you want to
archive special files, use a
USTAR format archive.
Message: filename: cannot set mode: system error
Cause: When extracting a file, an attempt was made to set the file mode to the mode it
had at archive time. This may have failed if you were extracting to pre-existing
files with different owners. See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: filename: cannot set uid/gid: system error
Cause: When extracting a file, an attempt was made to set the file owners to the same
owners as at archive time. See syserror(3).
Action: Do not use the –p o option.
Message: filename: grew in size
Cause: While writing filename to an archive, the file grew in size, probably due to some
other process writing to it while this utility was running. Only part of the file
(the number of bytes indicated in the header) was written to the archive.
Action: If possible, avoid access to files while they are being archived.
Message: filename: links not supported by OS
Cause: The pax, tar,orcpio file being extracted contained hard links, which are not
supported by the operating system. These files are not extracted.
Action: Since this message appears only on systems with no hard link support, there is
no way to extract the file as a hard link. One can manually make a copy of the
file referenced by the link.
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