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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: free & gpm -- has anyone ported them to FreeBSD
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:09:33 +0100 (MET)
Cc: jon@technix.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199601090149.MAA03979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 9, 96 12:19:32 pm
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hasn't Michael Smith said ? ...
> 
> Basket Case stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I'm wondering if anyone has ported Free & GPM to FreeBSD -- I miss free
> > especially and some of my friends like gpm (from linux) and was wondering
> > if anyone has ported them over to fbsd yet.  If not, then will a gpm 
> > executible work fine in the linux compat mode w/ fbsd?
> 
> Hmm, I know gpm (Soren is working on support for something similar for
> FreeBSD, I don't know where he's up to yet), but "Free" is unknown to me.
> 
> What is it?
> 
it's something like the top-lines of top - shows you memory info
(used, free, swap, buffer, etc ...) in - you know where - yes in linux

i think the closest we have are the top-lines of top and vmstat

t
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