MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pr(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pr(1)

Message: Missing header.

Cause: You speciﬁed the –h option without specifying a header string as its argument,

or you speciﬁed the –H option without specifying a header_fmt string.

Action: Provide the missing header or header_fmt string.

Message: Too many files for merge(-m) option; limit num

Cause: You speciﬁed too many ﬁles for the –m option to handle. The limit was num

ﬁles.

Action: Specify fewer ﬁles.

Message: Unknown option "–option"

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for pr.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid pr options.

Message: Width is insufficient

Cause: The line was not wide enough to hold the given number of columns with the

given column width; or a column was not wide enough to hold the minimum

amount of data.

Action: Use the –w option to increase the width of the page.

Message: write error on standard output: system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.

This version of pr is compatible with the UNIX

System V version of the command, which dif-

fers substantially from versions of pr found in earlier UNIX releases.

The –H, –p, and –W options are extensions to the

POSIX standard.

MPE/iX NOTES

For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this

utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.