Re: Top doesnt work on a terminal

[mickyb@es.co.nz (Michael Beattie)]

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, W Paul Mills wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display
> > the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt
> > appears in the middle of the system info at the top of the screen, and
> > when using commands such as "u", the prompt appears with $xx sequences.
> > the xx being a number.
> > 
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> ldd /usr/bin/top 
> 	libproc.so.1.11 => /lib/libproc.so.1.11 (0x4000b000)
> 	libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x4001b000)
> 	libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x40058000)
> 
> top uses ncurses, therefore you need to properly set the TERM 
> environment variable. See man ncurses.

Thanks... 

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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