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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: What does "no file" mean?
Message-ID: <526@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 14:17:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 14:17:27 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 04:41:57 EST
Organization: Resource Dynamics Inc., New York
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On several (rare) occasions I have seen the message "no file" appear on
the console on almost every implementation of UNIX I've ever worked
on.  I can never track down what causes it.  Once I had a program that
would always trigger the message.  I don't remember how I fixed it, but
it was mostly just luck and code juggling.  Now I have a system that
occasionally goes "no file" several times and then goes funny (can't
seem to find commands, can't make pipes, quit (^|) doesn't work, etc.)
until I reboot it.  No vendor I've spoken to can tell me what "no file"
means.  I don't have source code.  Could someone who does do a grep on
"no file" and tell me where this stuff is coming from and what it
means?

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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