MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

vi(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities vi(1)
TERM contains the name of the terminal type.
TERMINFO contains the path name of the terminfo database.
TMP contains the path name that MPE/iX Shell and Utilities uses as the directory for
temporary files, if TMPDIR is not defined. TMPDIR takes precedence over
TMP .
TMPDIR
contains the path name that MPE/iX Shell and Utilities uses as the directory for
temporary files.
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
Messages
Message: \\<digit> value too large
Cause: When using a numerical reference to a subexpression within the regular expres-
sion, the number used exceeded the number of subexpressions present.
Action: Ensure that numerical references to subexpressions are valid.
Message: (num1 null, num2 non-Ascii)
Cause: vi found num1 null and num2 non-printable characters in the current file. This
may occur if you attempted to edit a file that vi does not recognize as a proper
text file.
Action: Specify a proper text file. Using vi to edit binary files is not recommended.
Message: [Read Only]
Cause: You specified an input file that was marked as read-only by the file system, or
the set variable readonly was set on prior to reading the file. You can still
read and edit the file, but you cannot save any changes.
Action: Save the changes you have made to a different file name. Use chmod(1) to
change the file access permissions, and reread the file. If you set the
readonly variable to on, you can set it to off before writing the file with:
:set noreadonly
or use the w! command to force the write.
Message: Argument buffer overflow
Cause: You specified a list of command arguments that, after the expansion of the cur-
rent file name (%) or the alternate file name (#), overflowed the buffer.
Action: Specify a shorter list of command arguments.
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