MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1
lex(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities lex(1)
Message: Multi-character collating element [.col_element.] not
supported
Cause: You specified a regular expression containing a multi-character collating ele-
ment that is not supported by the POSIX locale.
Action: Rewrite the regular expression.
Message: No lex rules
Cause: You specified
LEX input that did not contain any translation rules, possibly due
to empty or badly formatted input.
Action: Make sure that your input file is specified properly, and that the contents are
properly formatted.
Message: No more memory for item
Cause: There were not enough free system resources for LEX to allocate to item. Your
scanner input was too large or too complicated, or you requested too much
space for a table.
Action: Simplify your input expressions, or request less space for tables.
Message: Out of dfa move space: increase %p from num
Cause: There were not enough move entries for
LEX to process your input.
Action: Increase move table size with the %p directive.
Message: Out of DFA state space: increase %n from num
Cause: You did not reserve enough space for the DFA tables.
Action: Use the %n directive to increase the space for the DFA tables.
Message: Out of NFA state space: increase %e from num
Cause: You did not reserve enough space for the NFA tables.
Action: Use the %e directive to increase the space for the NFA tables.
Message: Poorly formed [char sequence
Cause: You specified a [. .], [= =],or [: :] sequence improperly.
Action: Specify the sequence correctly.
Message: premature eof in prototype
Cause:
LEX encountered an end of file character in the prototype file when it was not
expecting it, probably due to a badly formatted prototype file.
Action: Ensure that the prototype file is not corrupted. If using a private prototype file,
ensure that it the same layout as the distributed version.
Message: temporary file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
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