MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2
rcserror(3) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities rcserror(3)
Message: command too long to execute
Cause: You specified a command string with the ˜! command that was longer than the
editor was able to handle.
Action: Use
˜!sh
or
˜!command
to get a command prompt, and perform the necessary action there.
Message: Could not generate temporary name
Cause: An RCS utility was unable to create a working file that it needed.
Action: Ensure that you either have a /tmp directory or that the environment contains a
variable
TMPDIR
which names a directory where RCS
can store temporary files.
Also, ensure that you have sufficient permissions on this directory to create a
temporary file.
Message: could not open config. file specified with -Y: system er-
ror
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Current directory not writeable: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: "diff" command interrupted or failed
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: "diffb" command interrupted or failed
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Directory pathname ignored
Cause: While attempting to locate the workfile associated with the specified
RCS file, a
directory with that name was found and ignored.
Action: None.
Message: Directory pathname not writeable: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
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