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From: mbrown@tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Blasted 8 digit error codes!
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Date: 5 Oct 90 18:48:00 GMT
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marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger) writes:
|> lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
|> |> Is there any way to suppress the 8 digit error codes on AIX 3.1 on the
|> |> RS/6000?  If I see another one of them I think I'll scream!!  They're
|> |> even in vi!!  I wanted a workstation, not handmedowns from the
|> |> System/390!
|> 
|> |> But really, I want to get rid of them, anyone know how?
|> 
|> Messages (error and otherwise) in AIX 3.1 are different depending on
|> the setting of the LANG environment variable.  As shipped, LANG gets
|> set to En_US, United States English, which are the errors with the
|> eight digit error codes.  They were meant to be more informative than
|> the standard UNIX errors.  And no, I personally don't like them either.
|> 
|> If you change LANG to 'C', you should get the 'classic' UNIX errors.

The reason that I posted my solution - move/remove the /usr/lpp/msg/En_*/*
files INSTEAD of changing the LANG variable from En_* to C, is that the
LANG variable also governs collating order, etc for the given language.

Changing LANG to "C" will work only for English-speaking (or more properly,
ANSI-speaking) users.

It *is* a simpler solution, though.

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