prints certain indicia about active
flag asks for information about all processes with teletypes (ordinarily
only one's own processes are displayed);
asks even about processes with no typewriter;
Ordinarily only the typewriter number (if not one's own)
and the process number are given.
The long listing is columnar and contains
A number encoding the state (last digit)
and flags (first 1 or 2 digits) of the process.
process; high numbers mean low priority.
A number related in some unknown way to the
the control typewriter of the process.
The process unique number
(as in certain cults it is possible
to kill a process if you know its true name).
The size in blocks of the core image of the process.
The last column if non-blank tells the core
address in the system of the
event which the process is waiting for;
if blank, the process is running.
Unfortunately if you have forgotten the number of a process
you will have to guess which one it is.
will tell you only a list of numbers.
/usr/sys/unix system namelist
The ability to see, even if dimly,
the name by which the process was invoked would