i/o error messages

[Darrell McCauley]

"Jane Rossing" (rossing at swlab.aben.cornell.edu) writes on 25 Oct 93:
>I am running a long shell script that repeats many times.  Out of hundreds 
>of calculations, I got the following 5 error messages.  These same commands run

these all seem to be related to file i/o. Is this a standalone machine
or are you using nfs to mount filesystems from other machines? If the
latter, hiccups in your network might cause things like this... just a
guess.