MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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

Message: Option –L overrides –U

Cause: You speciﬁed both the –L option and the –U option. These two options are

mutually exclusive. The command behaves as though only the –L option was

speciﬁed.

Action: If you do not want the behaviour described under CAUSE, specify only one of

the two options.

Message: Redefinition of –t option

Cause: You speciﬁed the –t option more than once on the command line.

Action: Specify the –t option, at most, once per command line.

Message: Redefinition of file format specifier

Cause: You speciﬁed both the –B option (binary) and the –T option (text) on the same

command line.

Action: Specify either –B or –T, but not both.

Message: Redefinition of option –A

Cause: You speciﬁed the –A option more than once on the command line.

Action: Specify the –A option, at most, once per command line.

Message: Redefinition of option –b

Cause: You speciﬁed the –b option more than once on the command line.

Action: Specify the –b option, at most, once per command line.

Message: Redefinition of option –c

Cause: You speciﬁed the –c option more than once on the command line.

Action: Specify the –c option, at most, once per command line.

Message: Redefinition of option –o

Cause: You speciﬁed the –o option more than once on the command line.

Action: Specify the –o option, at most, once per command line.

Message: rev still locked by username

Cause: You attempted to break username’s lock on revision rev, but the attempted

failed because rcs was unable to send mail to inform username of the broken

lock.

Action: Try again, or speak to the holder of the lock directly.

Message: Revisions rev1-rev2 don’t exist

Cause: You attempted to delete a range of revisions from the rcs ﬁle which do not exist.

Action: Check that the revision numbers you provided are correct, and try again.

Message: State missing after –s

Cause: You speciﬁed the –s option without providing a state as its argument.

Action: Provide the missing state.

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