MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

strings(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities strings(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
Messages
Message: file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Insufficient memory: system error
Cause: There were not enough free system resources for strings to allocate space
for a single string of the length requested.
Action: Ask for shorter strings.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for strings.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section of this man page for a list of valid strings
options.
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN
Portability Guide 4.0.
A Berkeley addition to most UNIX systems. Most Berkeley versions do not require the ter-
minating NUL or newline.
The –o, –p, and –x options are extensions to the
POSIX standard.
NOTE
NUL-terminated strings are a convention used primarily by the C programming language. Oth-
er languages and programs may not terminate strings with a newline or NUL. The strings
utility will not find these strings.
MPE/iX NOTES
The current MPE/iX implementation of strings does not recognize or understand executable
files; it always behaves as if you specified the –a option.
For more information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of
this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.
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