MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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

TERMINFO

contains the path name of the terminfo database.

DIAGNOSTICS

tabs may return the following status values:

0 Successful completion.

1 Missing deﬁnition in terminfo database.

2 Usage error.

3 Unknown terminal or can’t ﬁnd terminfo database.

4 Illegal tabs.

5 An error occurred.

Messages

Message: "tablist" are not in ascending order.

Cause: You speciﬁed a list of tab stops that was not in ascending order.

Action: Specify the tab stops in ascending order.

Message: Cannot set margins on terminal "term".

Cause: You speciﬁed the +m margin option, but the terminfo database does not support

margins for the terminal term.

Action: Check your terminal deﬁnition against the terminal’s operation manual for

missing information. If the terminal’s manual does not provide the necessary

information then your terminal does not support margins.

Message: Cannot set tabs on terminal "term".

Cause: You attempted to set tab stops on the terminal term, but the terminfo database

does not support tabs on that terminal.

Action: Check your terminal deﬁnition against the terminal’s operation manual for

missing information. If the terminal’s manual does not provide the necessary

information then your terminal does not support tabs.

Message: Illegal tabs in "tablist".

Cause: You speciﬁed a tablist which contained either a negative or non-numeric val-

ue.

Action: Speciﬁed a tablist that contains only numbers in ascending order.

Message: Missing terminal type after -T.

Cause: You speciﬁed the –T option but did not provide a terminal type as its argument.

Action: Provide the missing terminal type.

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