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I recently moved from a large SunOS based company with hundreds of
servers to a new job taking care of a SCO Unix box (just 1 and by myself).
I was used to the "TOP" command to show the top processes on the Sparc
servers.  Not being as familiar with SCO as I was with SunOS, I don't
seem to have a "TOP" command available.  Could someone point me in the
right direction.

I also tried typing my usual "sz" to Zmodem download a file via modem and
did not have any luck.  Is the file possibly located outside the path or
do I have to install the sz utility.  Any help with both or either
function would be appreciated.

Eric
Information Coordinator

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$I recently moved from a large SunOS based company with hundreds of
$servers to a new job taking care of a SCO Unix box (just 1 and by myself).
$I was used to the "TOP" command to show the top processes on the Sparc
$servers.  Not being as familiar with SCO as I was with SunOS, I don't
$seem to have a "TOP" command available.  Could someone point me in the
$right direction.

   I believe there is a top available; search the usual sites and
you may find it.

   If not, you might want to consider memhog, available as a TLS
for at least some versions and on the Skunkware 5 CD for OSR5 (you
didn't tell us anything at all about what version of SCO Unix
you're using).

$I also tried typing my usual "sz" to Zmodem download a file via modem and
$did not have any luck.  Is the file possibly located outside the path or
$do I have to install the sz utility.  Any help with both or either
$function would be appreciated.

   You'll need to download it.  Again, see the usual places; it's
also available as a TLS.
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There is a program already written, it's on the skunkware cd and is called
"cpuhog".  It looks a little different then top but preforms the same
function.

-b

: >I recently moved from a large SunOS based company with hundreds of
: >servers to a new job taking care of a SCO Unix box (just 1 and by myself).
: >I was used to the "TOP" command to show the top processes on the Sparc
: >servers.  Not being as familiar with SCO as I was with SunOS, I don't
: >seem to have a "TOP" command available.  Could someone point me in the
: >right direction.

: >I also tried typing my usual "sz" to Zmodem download a file via modem and
: >did not have any luck.  Is the file possibly located outside the path or
: >do I have to install the sz utility.  Any help with both or either
: >function would be appreciated.

: >Eric
: >Information Coordinator

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: rz/sz are not part of the distribution.  you'll have to pull them down
: from a bbs, or get them from www.omen.com.  and you won't find a
: ufsdump utility, either.  i've worked with both SunOS and Solaris,
: mostly 2.4 - what does 'top' give you?  worst case, you ought to be
: able to write a script to pipe ps through sort, and get what you're
: looking for....

: jmcney

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Is Open Server 5 in some way more compatible with general UNIX programs? I
haven't tried recently, and don't spend my days programming in C, but when
I've tried to download programs and recompile them on SCO (ODT3.0) in the
past, I've generally run into brick walls.  I'm wondering if any
additions were made to OS5 to support software?

I'm also eyeing a move to OS5 now that I've rediscovered that OS3 is going
to be "obsolete" in November.

A third factor is that more people have been deliberately providing SCO
patches to the maintainers of free packages.  A random package is
currently much more likely to already know how to "make sco".

Quote:>Bela<

   This part of the discussion is now purely on programming, so I've
crossposted and set followups appropriately.

$Is Open Server 5 in some way more compatible with general UNIX programs? I
$haven't tried recently, and don't spend my days programming in C, but when
$I've tried to download programs and recompile them on SCO (ODT3.0) in the
$past, I've generally run into brick walls.  I'm wondering if any
$additions were made to OS5 to support software?

   Yes, SCO has made it easier to port software to their platform.

   First off, the hoary old Microsoft compiler is history.  It, and
its quirks, have been replaced by the AT&T compiler found in
SVR4.  So the compiler is now not only more standard, but also
more similar (and probably pretty close to identical in many ways)
to that used by a lot of people writing general Unix programs.

   I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe much of the library
code is also from the same source.  If you've found in the past
that your system was missing such-and-such a library function,
chances are it's there now.

   For the many people who prefer gcc, the good news is that you
no longer have to buy the SCO development system in order to get
the libraries and headers, then throw out SCO's compiler and replace
it with gcc.  The libraries and headers are now included in the
operating system itself.  Grab a copy of gcc (e.g. from the Skunkware
disc) and get to work compiling your favourite programs.

   I'm sure that there are plenty of other things that I've missed.
It's been a while since I've done much compilation on older SCO
releases, and that was primarily on the 3.2.2 dev sys (and often
targeted for Xenix, just to make life more interesting).  I do
get the impression from my work on OSR5 that it's much, much less
frustrating trying to compile stuff than it used to be.
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