R.I.Slinn@newcastle.ac.uk (R.I. Slinn) (03/16/90)
I have a problem at the moment with the minix system, as you know pressing the F1 key produces a summary of the activity of each running process ( or task ). Under the present arrangement i.e. by pressing F1, this data is displayed on the screen, but cannot otherwise be observed. It would be useful for this data to be available to a program, which could then store it in a file, or perhaps pipe it to another program. Could any one please supply me with coding alterations to do this and the coding for a program which takes the information returned by the ps system call, and prints it out in a reasonably understandable form. Many thanks R.I.Slinn.