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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
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4f7f8g$s5d@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
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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
- --
- Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
- Use NetBSD, it's Unix, it's free and works on:
- i386+, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532, DEC Alpha, DEC MIPS, Atari
- Work in progress: Vax, Sun4m and a host of others
-