procps for DEBIAN
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This version of procps is a heavily modified version of procps v1.2.2 with
Helmut's patches for colour support etc. from procps-1.12.2.1

The patches do the following:

architecture changes: merged in patches from ftp.azstarnet.com,
      mostly Alpha and SPARC relevant details:
      BFD support for psupdate (??? is psupdate really needed
      and doesn't work reading System.map on Alphas and SPARCs ???)
      fixed types in proc/readproc.h to exaclty match those from
      /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/array.c (the patches above didn't
      do this right either, but were a great help).
      Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> helped a lot
      with making things work on the ALPHA.

libproc: support for status file in proc file system.
        vastly extended flags for readproc.
        added showtask.[ch] and output.[ch] modules, the first
        for uniform interface to display a single task for both ps
        and top, the second for some universal print functions
        supporting variable output width (within limits).
        The showtask module supports color markup (if selected at
        compile-time). This can be configured independently for
        ps and top by setting the environment variables PS_COLORS
        resp. TOP_COLORS. See ps_colors(7) for explicit syntax of
        these variables.
        The changes due to the output.c functions are most visible in
        the time fields, which are now printed using different units
        if the alternative time format is turned on.

ps: revamped a lot of ps to enable arbitrary field selection.
    added SVR4/POSIX style options to ps, selected by setting the
    environment variable PS_PERSONALITY to "posix" (case
    independent).
    Added some SVR4 functionality to BSD style ps (using long
    options).
    added deselection of pids, users and groups.

top: incorporated new showtask interface, therefore slightly different
        online bvehaviour of top (far more supported fields).
     switched to use termios, not termio.

w: fixed some minor bugs

docs: rewrote manpages for top and ps, new pages: ps_fields and
        ps_colors. New manpages for libproc.

All changes above by Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>


 <Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>>, Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:33:54 +1100
