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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
Date: 6 Feb 1996 12:49:36 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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eka@stack.urc.tue.nl (E. Durmin) writes:
>I've been using Linux for a week and now I want to try NetBSD.
>I have a few questions:
Since I don't use the Amiga port of NetBSD, I can't answer most of these
questions, however...
> - On my Unix-account on the university I use 'csh' as my default shell.
> I did this too on NetBSD, but when I press the cursorkeys I just get weird
> characters. Usually it is possible to "go back to previous commands" when
> pressing these keys.
I think you're talking about tcsh here. csh has no commandline editing,
if it has at your U. account, then possibly your sysadmin installed tcsh
over csh.
> - I've heard that NetBSD uses a just little bit more memory than Linux...
> I've downloaded top (top-3.3) and tried to start top.
> It doesn't start... it says that there was no memory left...
This probably means that you're running an old(er) top version, which
was compiled for NetBSD 1.0. Since then, some kernel structures have changed.
Your version of top expects the old ones, gets some very strange numbers,
and tries to allocate a chunk of memory using such a strange number. You
should probably dig up some other version of top, or recompile it yourself.
- Frank
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Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
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