MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

uudecode(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities uudecode(1)
Message: line line_num: Line too short (n1 bytes, expecting n2)
Cause: The length of a line did not match the length indicated by the first character in
the line; perhaps the input file was corrupted.
Action: Check that the input is valid uuencoded data.
Message: line line_num: Bad length
Cause: The length of a line did not match the length indicated by the first character in
the line; perhaps the input file was corrupted.
Action: Check that the input is valid uuencoded data.
Message: No begin line
Cause: uudecode did not find a begin line in the input file.
Action: Make sure that the file was encoded by uuencode.
Message: No end line
Cause: uudecode did not find a end line in the input file.
Action: Make sure that the file has not been truncated.
Message: Octal mode may contain only digits [0-7] in numstring
Cause: When using octal mode to indicate new access permissions, the Begin line
specified a string numstring containing characters other than the digits 0 to 7.
Action: Make sure that all mode values in octal mode are valid octal numbers, contain-
ing only the digits 0 through 7.
Message: output file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Short file
Cause: uudecode encountered an end of file character before encountering the end of
the encoded text.
Action: Make sure that the file has not been truncated.
Message: Unable to set mode on "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Unknown or missing operator in symbolic mode "mode-
string"
Cause: When using the symbolic mode to indicate new access permissions, the Begin
line specified a string modestring which was either missing an operator or con-
tained an operator that chmod does not recognize.
Action: Make sure that all mode values in symbolic mode contain one of the following
operators: +, -,or=.
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