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From: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Blasted 8 digit error codes!
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.095610@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 16:56:10 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.065442.8569@cs.umn.edu>, 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.
You can permanently change the default for all users by changing the 
file /etc/environment.  There is line for each of the environment 
variables that will be set for a user when they log in and LANG is
one of them.

And please don't scream - it wakes the programmers.

These are my opinions, not IBM's.

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