MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pax(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pax(1)
Message: blocking factor of 0 not allowed
Cause: You specified the –b option with an argument that evaluated to zero.
Action: Specify a non-zero value as the argument to the –b option.
Message: can not read archive from terminal
Cause: You attempted to extract or list an archive from a tty device.
Action: Specify a non-tty file name to pax.
Message: can’t use –a or –u with stdout
Cause: You specified the –a or –u option when sending output to the standard output.
These options can only be used with archive files.
Action: Make sure that you specify an archive file when using the –a or –u options.
Message: cannot create file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: cannot create parent directory to "pathname": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: cannot link "name1"to"name2": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: checksum error on tape (hexnum1 != hexnum2)
Cause: A bad checksum was found in a tar header.
Action: Check to see if the archive was corrupted.
Message: compress: compression error
Cause: A problem occurred in the compression of the archive.
Action: See the compress manual page for a full list of possible compression errors.
Message: decompress: compression error
Cause: Normally implies the archive is corrupted.
Action: See the uncompress manual page for a full list of possible compression
errors.
Message: directory "pathname": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: error in string replacement: regular expression error
Cause: See regerror(3).
Action: See regerror(3).
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