MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

od(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities od(1)
Message: Invalid size modifier for "char" format
Cause: You specified an invalid size modifier for the char format character.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for the valid size modifiers for each format
character.
Message: Missing argument for "–opt" option.
Cause: You specified the –opt option but did not follow it with the expected argument.
Action: Provide the expected argument. Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of
valid od options and their arguments.
Message: Option –option argument missing
Cause: You did not provide an argument for –option.
Action: Provide the missing argument.
Message: read error: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: seek error on input: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: seek past EOF on input
Cause: The seek offset specified on the command line was greater than the size of the
input file.
Action: Check the offset and try again.
Message: Unknown format character "char"
Cause: You specified an unrecognized format character as an argument to the –t
option.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid format characters.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for od.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid od options.
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.
The options to operate on longs (–OSXD) and the hex byte (–h) are not normal options on tra-
ditional implementations of od on UNIX systems. System V and BSD versions have different
semantics for certain options.
Only the second form of the command is part of the POSIX standard.
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