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Date:      Tue, 23 May 1995 17:31:57 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=), jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: top(1) 
Message-ID:  <199505231531.RAA11998@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <199505221903.VAA24042@grumble.grondar.za>
References:  <199505221903.VAA24042@grumble.grondar.za>

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Mark Murray writes:
>>  * > 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?".

Exactly.


>If this is the question, I would answer "systat", although that is not
>as concise or understandable as top for a newbie.

I prefer top. Systat swap does not work.

Wolfram



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