>Rather than have two PS programs, you might teach the "ps" in the "procps" >package to understand the System V flags as well as the BSD ones. You might >need a switch, environment variable, or configuration file to tell it which >version you want. AIX has such a beast. It behaves like SYSV if you use '-' before the options, and like BSD if you don't. eg: ps -ef - SYSV behavior ps aux - BSD behavior Zeyd