This is a known issue with other vendors... top format strings issue. SCO never "supported" skunkware it was out of courtesy that the binarys were provided as I was once told. I assume Caldera takes the same position. root@atlantic.theatlanticclub.com #ls -al /usr/local/bin/top lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 45 Nov 12 12:42 /usr/local/bin/top -> /opt/K/SKUNK98/Top/3.5beta5/usr/local/bin/top root@atlantic.theatlanticclub.com #ls -al /opt/K/SKUNK98/Top/3.5beta5/usr/local/bin/top -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mem 42200 Nov 12 12:41 /opt/K/SKUNK98/Top/3.5beta5/usr/local/bin/top type k for kill while in top ... last pid: 1926; load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 10:22:44 111 processes: 110 sleeping, 1 onproc CPU states: % idle, % user, % system, % wait, % sxbrk Memory: 384M phys, 357M max, 272M free, 352M locked, 190M unlocked, 125M swap kill %p%p%p last pid: 1930; load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 10:23:23 111 processes: 110 sleeping, 1 onproc CPU states: % idle, % user, % system, % wait, % sxbrk Memory: 384M phys, 357M max, 272M free, 352M locked, 190M unlocked, 125M swap 8005b3608059e1008047ce024: Not a number ftp://ftp2.caldera.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/top-3.5beta5-VOLS.tar ^--- this is the only top package provided by caldera / SCO -KF