MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

rcs(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities rcs(1)
Message: Can’t unlock nonexisting revision rev
Cause: You tried to use the –u option to unlock a revision that does not exist.
Action: Make sure that the revision you specified is correct, and try again.
Message: Could not allocate in strdup
Cause: There were not enough free system resources to copy the environment variable
MAILER
.
Action: Check to see if
MAILER
is set to a large amount of text. If so, assign a shorter
string to the variable. If not, free up more system resources.
Message: Error closing input file filename
Cause: The RCS file filename is compressed and an error occurred during decompres-
sion.
Action: The file is possibly corrupt. Try again with another copy of the file.
Message: error in compression checking for oldfile
Cause: You attempted to use the –A option to merge the access list from oldfile into the
specified
RCS file; however oldfile did not pass the compression consistency
check.
Action: oldfile is possibly corrupt. Try again with another copy of the file.
Message: file filename exists already
Cause: You tried to create an
RCS file when one already existed with the same name.
Action: Make sure that you need to create the file.
Message: Invalid branch range rev after –o
Cause: You specified an invalid branch range with the –o option.
Action: Make sure that the branches listed are both the correct format, and the correct
revisions, and try again.
Message: Invalid range rev1 rev2 after –o
Cause: You specified a range as an argument to the –o that was syntactically incorrect.
Action: Correct the syntax error in the range.
Message: Invalid revision range rev1-rev2
Cause: You specified a range of revisions that was not valid.
Action: Make sure that the revisions listed are both the correct format, and the correct
revisions, and try again.
Message: Invalid string string after option –n or –N
Cause: A space or colon (:) did not follow the argument to the –n or –N option. It must
be followed by one of these two characters.
Action: Provide a valid string.
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