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This is the original version -- but now it compiles on 3.2/3.3 and for all available NEXTSTEP-versions (see Makefile.preamble). This program is a blatant steal from the Monitor program. Well, at least quite a bit was, shall we say, "derived" from Monitor. It just displays the amount of system, user, nice, and idle time in a bar-graph style manner. Not too impressive, and unfortunately, not that useful. It turns out that the program needs setuid for access to kmem, and since our machines are mostly diskless, this doesn't work. Some problems with NFS, which also affect w and netstat (and Monitor, BTW). But, for those of you with local disks, this is nice. Also, for those who are concerned about "security", the source is there. As far as I know, it is tight. The program needs chown root.kmem and chmod 6755 done on it. If you do not know what that means, you cannot do it, so talk to you system administrator, who should know. To get things rolling, do a make in this directory. This gives you a file to play with. To really get serious, do a make install, to put it into your ~/Apps directory. Then, a Find Applications from the Utilities menu of the Workspace will get its icon noticed, and you can see it in the Browser. Also, after make install runs, the executable is only 73k. Then, you could put it into /LocalApps if you like. Talk to your local system administrator if you'd like to do this, but can't. It saves space if many people want it. The code for this is freely distributed. I don't even care if you put my name in it when using it, though I really would appreciate it. I also would rather you didn't distribute this package with your name in it (unless you've added to it, of course). Please just be nice to it, OK? The one requirement I make if you are going to use it is that you run it and read the info panel. Click on the buttons at the top, and read that also. There's not much there, and I'd just like everyone to see it. Thanks. Also, this code is not that nice. This is quick, and dirty. So, don't boo me, please! Scott Hess scott@gacvax1.bitnet NeXT Campus Consultant, GAC PO box 832 Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, Mn 56082
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