In article <199406011317.JAA04569@smuggler.bbn.com> "John C. Orthoefer" <jco@bbn.com> writes: 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` The proc structure in Solaris is different, so more than that will have to be changed, I think. I took a stab at it, but I couldn't get it to work (I got an exception error from the PROM). Steven