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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: sa -e ????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.155418.9036@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 15:54:18 GMT
- References: <31482@adm.brl.mil> <1992Jul23.143726.12180@news.eng.convex.com> <hvanbyv2@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- From the keyboard of cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon):
- :In article <1992Jul23.143726.12180@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM
- :(Tom Christiansen) writes:
- :> e Echo records exactly as they appear in the accounting file; this
- :> option may be used to convert the accounting file to ASCII text.
- :
- :Sounds useful, sounds like it only exists on the Convex. SunOS 4.1.2 says
- :
- :cudcv (3495) > sa -e
- :Invalid option e
- :5.750u 12.030s 0:59.99 29.6% 0+139k 2+0io 2pf+0w
- :Exit 1
- :cudcv (3496) >
- :
- :Note that it takes nearly 16 seconds process time to say that!
-
- Given sys/acct.h, you could very easily write either a Perl or a C
- program to emulate what my "sa -e" does.
-
- --tom
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