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# Procinfo

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Procinfo-18 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Procinfo (18):
ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/svm/

## Contents of Procinfo

(Last checked against version 18.)

The procinfo program gathers system data, such as memory usage and IRQ numbers, from the `/proc` directory and formats this data in a meaningful way.

Procinfo installs the following:

### Program Files

lsdev, procinfo and socklist

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## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 18.)

### Program file descriptions

lsdev lists the devices present in your system, and which IRQs and IO ports they use.

procinfo displays an overview of some of the info present in the virtual proc filesystem.

socklist lists the open sockets, reporting their type, portnumber, and other specifics.

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## Procinfo Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 18.)

Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: install, mkdir
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make

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