From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 22 12:03:43 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA02295 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 22 May 1995 12:03:43 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA02288 ; Mon, 22 May 1995 12:03:33 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA02075; Mon, 22 May 1995 21:03:13 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA24042; Mon, 22 May 1995 21:03:12 +0200 Message-Id: <199505221903.VAA24042@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: top(1) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 21:03:11 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * > Why is top not in /usr/bin? > > * Because it's in /usr/local/bin? :-) > > And in case you want to ask "why is it in /usr/local/bin?", it's our > policy to install ports stuff in /usr/local/* for non-X stuff and > /usr/X11R6/* for X stuff (by default). I suspect that this person is actually asking "Why is top not part of the standard distribution?". If this is the question, I would answer "systat", although that is not as concise or understandable as top for a newbie. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200