MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

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

Message: Missing tab list after -t.

Cause: You speciﬁed the –t option but did not provide a tab list as its argument.

Action: Provide the missing tab list.

Message: No terminfo database.

Cause: tabs was unable to ﬁnd the terminfo database.

Action: Set the environment variable

TERMINFO

to point at a valid database of termi-

nal information.

Message: Unknown option "–option"

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for tabs.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid tabs options.

Message: Unknown terminal "term".

Cause: You speciﬁed a terminal type with the –T option, but that terminal type was not

found in the terminfo database.

Action: Check that the terminal type exists, and that you spelled it correctly.

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN

Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.

The +m, –t, and tabspec arguments are all extensions to the POSIX

standard.

MPE/iX NOTES

For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this

utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.