Someone just asked me: > [where is pstat on solaris] Well pstat to best of my knowlege doesn't exist on solaris 2.x boxs. So there is no way to get the begining of the proc table. Well not quite. The System V ps does give you the start of the proc struct for a process. a-girl> ps -lfp $$ | more F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME COMD 8 S jco 5718 5716 80 1 20 ff5d7800 213 ff5d79c8 09:01:09 pts/10 0:01 -csh So I guess one more line needs to be changed to make fc-4.1.3 into fc-5.3. procp=`ps -lfp $1 | tail -1 | cut -f9` - John Orthoefer | The options described above interact with each <jco@bbn.com> | other in strange and as yet to be defined ways. 617-873-6188 | -- BUGS section of the pr man page