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From: rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Multimax thrashing
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.173934.1654@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 17:39:34 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.170300.14750@newcastle.ac.uk> <130064@infocenter.encore.com> <2166@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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francis@cs.ua.oz.au (Francis Vaughan) writes:

>Que? what is this command 'sar'? It is not on our system nor in any man pages.
>However we are running UMAX 4.3 (R4_0.0), never seen 4_1.0 in Australia unlike
>the poster from the UK.

I'd be rather surprised to see 'sar' show up in any 4.3 release, considering
sar is a System V command and reads all sorts of obscure little-documented
variables in the System V kernel that have no obvious counterparts in BSD.

(Disclaimer: I don't have any notion of what Encore may or may not do in
future releases; they may indeed get sar to work on their BSD release.  I
just know where 'sar' came from because I have a SysV system at home.)

>(An otherwise happy Encore customer who belives that a good
>company is going to drive itself down the gurgler if it doesn't
>sharpen up its act.)
No kidding....
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu